Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^For the record, it does not sound as though Op's MIL was throwing her mom weight around. She simply heard that her son was hospitalized and went to him.
At 9pm. From 90 minutes away. For nothing non life threatening. To stay an hour. Then drive 90 minutes back home. At 1am.
You don't see how this comes off as EXTREMELY desperate? Especially assuming he didn't ASK for someone to come (OP said she just showed up. Just showed up!)
I see. You're the paranoid DIL that makes her MIL's relationship with her own son a living hell. Great.
My wife recently had a bad bacteria infection. After 5 days of very bad reactions that got worse, not better, we went to urgent care, got an antibiotic. Didn't clear up, so 3 days later, went to her GP. GP ran labs and when the labs came back, called and said it was a particularly antibiotic resistant strain of E Coli. Got 2nd antibiotic. After 3 more days with no change, she was feeling so bad (and it was a Sunday) that we took her to the ER. Got there around 4pm. I was checking in at the desk with the triage nurse about once/hour. From 7:30 on, she was the top non-emergency case. But emergencies were coming in pretty steadily. We waited until 10pm. Our kids are 5 and normal bedtime is 8:30 and the kids were definitely cranky. Finally, I took the kids home and told my wife to call/text me when her status changed. I took the kids home and put them to sleep on the sofa, planning to carry them to the car when we needed to go back and get my wife. At 12:30am she finally moved to an exam room. They ran some additional tests (she went for one test from the waiting room before we left). Finally at 2:30am, they got the results back and determined that she would need to stay in the hospital. She was admitted and did not get into a room until 3:30am, almost 12 hours after we got there. When you are non-emergency, you can be waiting indefinitely. We didn't imagine that we'd be sitting in the ER for 6 hours before I left and 8.5 hours total before she was moved to an exam room. But that's what happens when you are non-critical.
So, back to OP's husband. The guy is bored. He's already called his wife and told her to stay home with the kids, it's nothing serious. He calls a couple of buddies, then calls his Mom who he has a good relationship with. Chats a bit. She asks if DIL is there. He tells her he told her it wasn't serious and she should stay home with the kids. He's bored. He tells her that he's on the non-emergency list so has to wait until the emergency patients clear out. Doesn't know how long he'll be there. She decides to come and keep him company and drives there to be with her son and keep him company. He gets there 9pm. She gets there maybe 11pm and they still don't know when he'll be seen. Could be 30 minutes, could be several hours. He finally gets in around midnight or a bit after. They see him, they treat him and he's discharged around 1am. But one or two more critical case coming in on an ambulance and it could have been another hour or more.
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