Today, my mother-in-law decided my husband has COVID-19, read some debunked articles about how ibuprofen makes the symptoms worse, and scolded me for giving him ibuprofen for his muscle pain. I'm an actual medical doctor. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother-in-law 'corrected' me while I was trying to help her father with his Parkinson's medication. She went on and on about how she read on the internet about it. I'm a neurologist, but no, she knows better after a Google search. FML
Today, my mom took medical advice from her friend over mine. Her friend sells cheese and I'm a pharmacist. FML
Today, my mother-in-law flushed my pain medicine because she believes I’ve been using it too long and I’m addicted. I had surgery four days ago. FML
Today, my mother scolded me for undressing my son and giving him Tylenol to break his fever. She insisted I wrap him in several layers to increase his body temperature in order to let him "sweat the fever out." I’m married to a pediatrician. My mom didn’t finish high school. She swears we're wrong. FML
Today, I finally got an answer as to why I've felt like crap this past week when I tested positive for COVID. My wife, a healthcare professional, is now madly Googling proof that COVID is fake, because she thinks it an elaborate ruse for me to not visit her grandmother next week. FML
Today, I found out that the same doctor who came over to run Covid tests on my family actually infected us with it. FML
Today, I found out my mother-in-law is trying to force me to lose weight, even though I am trying, and have a medical condition. FML
Today, my mother-in-law said I was manipulative, awful, mean, incapable of love, and the reason for my husband's depression. All because I got him to agree to inpatient psychiatric care after he expressed suicidal thoughts that included our children. She says it's ridiculous and he's fine. FML
Today, I woke up with a fever, headache and sore throat. All the symptoms of Covid-19. I told my husband, whose responded with, "Sack up and get over yourself." FML
Today, my mom got pissed off at my doctor and called him a quack. She did this because he reassured her that I don't show any signs of the mental retardation that she's convinced herself I must have. FML
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millsjoshua949 12
I feel for you. I'm constantly amazed by the idiotic stuff people believe.
Marcella1016 32
How DARE you criticize anything that’s going on. You must have TDS for not immediately sucking the teat of DearDivineEternalLeaderWhoKnowsAll’s authority at all costs! And OP’s MIL is correct in doing her research - Clearly, internet reports from shady online sources are better than advice from a licensed medical doctor. The internet comes from all around the world, so it must know everything, right? ...Right?
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RichardPencil 32
Or... Maybe you're part of the "plan"-demic keeping people sick in a conspiracy to prevent Dear Leader from being elevated to Divine Eternal Leader. Oops! I mean being re-elected! Shit, QAnon is going to be so mad at me!
Marcella1016 32
How DARE you criticize anything that’s going on. You must have TDS for not immediately sucking the teat of DearDivineEternalLeaderWhoKnowsAll’s authority at all costs! And OP’s MIL is correct in doing her research - Clearly, internet reports from shady online sources are better than advice from a licensed medical doctor. The internet comes from all around the world, so it must know everything, right? ...Right?
millsjoshua949 12
I feel for you. I'm constantly amazed by the idiotic stuff people believe.
TCRII 30
Just because you have a PHD and MD after a decade+ of college and medical school, years of residency and working every day as a doctor, you think you know something about medicine. Yeah, ok - you know a lot more than I ever will. Hope your husband listened to you and not his delusional mom.