sykadelic
POSTED 23 NOV 2010 - from FFH page
Another story to explain the MIL & the IL's. DH was in the Armed Forces. He left for Iraq and all that "fun stuff". When he came back, after one of his deployments, he discovered they had taken their pick of anything he'd left in his room. He took back anything he was particularly concerned about, and just ignored other bits (like clothing etc.).
When DH was little, he got an ingrown toenail. He had it for over 6 months. His mother refused to take him to the doctor. He couldn't walk straight. It was highly infected, and eventually he had to take off PE as well. He went through a LOT of socks. It was awful (so I'm told). When the teacher asked him about it, he showed his toe. The teacher was shocked, and wrote a letter home to his parents.
When MIL saw the letter, she was very annoyed, but took him anyway, so she wouldn't get into trouble with the school. When the doc saw it and asked how long he'd had it, he said 6 months+. His mother called him a liar, and said that it had been only a week or so. The doc said that there was no way that was a week old injury. She, then, claimed that DH must just not have told her about it soon enough.
Signed - Room Raiders and Uncaring Parents