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[quote=Anonymous]My child just went through a health scare during a family visit. Luckily he is totally fine, and it's nothing contagious,  but there was a hospital admission and a few days of slow recovery for him at home. While my mom was visiting (planned long ago and unfortunately overlapped with DH going away for work; she was here for the duration of the health scare), she did nothing to help. She doesn't drive but we are in there city and close to everything.  I asked her if she could go to the store, which is a short walk away,  for medication and supplies, and she made a huge fuss about being tired so I went with a sick kid in a stroller. She called me en route to make sure I got her brand of soda, etc. I have been up late doing sick-kid laundry and all that kind of stuff and she asked when I went to bed and wondered why it was so late. Then said how tired she was. The day after the hospital and for the next three says she was "sick" and took to her bed like someone from a Victorian novel, but with lots of moaning and self-pitying statements (and breaks to eat big meals and watch tv).

We finally went to the doctor after I pleaded for her to go for days and they said she wasn't sick but acquiesced when she pouted and said it might be allergies.

When I look back, similar situations happened for all my big life events or whenever I got sick. Example: baby being born (sick, can't visit); graduation (sick, might not make it), wedding (sick, will try but will have to sleep before and after). sometimes there's a glorious last-minute recovery and she lets everyone know how hard it is for her to be there and how she barely made it..

Is this some kind of mental illness? If someone is familiar with a similar scenario could you give me a word for this so I can do some research beyond Googling "mom crazy"?? I never put together the pattern until now and I'm both fascinated to discover it and feeling sorry for myself. [/quote]

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