My mother-in-law is a sweet lady, but she comes up with some of the craziest stuff I have ever heard. It's always in the realm of medical stories or (God help M.) advice. Her daughter, my SIL, is a nurse, so I always call her to give her the latest tidbits and listen to her go bananas. *sigh* it's fun.
1. My husband was deployed and I had all the kids by myself. This was right about the time my oldest started his "Great Rebellion." I wasn't getting a lot of sleep. My MIL called to chit chat and I couldn't seem to string two words together. She asked what was wrong and I told her something about being tired and on my period. I started a sentence and forgot what I was going to say right in the middle. She said, "Oh, a doctor told M. why that happens. You're on your period and all the blood is rushing AWAY from your brain."
2. She called M. when my son had the shingles. She put him on the prayer request list at church and wanted to let M. know that she found the answer to "getting rid of those shingles." She said a man at church told her to put clear fingernail polish on it. Only clear, no colors. Only at the beginning and end of the rash. Peel it off every 48 hours and reaply. WTH? It's chicken pox attacking the nerve root? How will fingernail polish help that? Did she say "chiggers" instead of "shingles?"
3. She called to tell M. to pray for her friend "Renee" because she was diagnosed with cancer and having her vagina removed.
His sister told M. to get rid of my cat what I was pregnant because they "suck the breath our of babies."
It's a pretty common occurance and while it makes M. laugh, it wears M. out. I J. quit telling them details. It makes things so much easier.
