After the post earlier this week about leaving out pills and then the kids coming home sorting the halloween candy on the "pill table in question", I shared this horrific story with my mom. She seemed deeply concerned and just as shocked as I was. So, I walk by my mom's room (guest room until next Saturday) and I see her ziplock bag FULL OF PILLS just sitting there. I told her to put it away so Carson wouldn't get to it and it is still freakin' there! I moved it down to our pill cabinet that is locked today.

Last year, Carson had pink eye and we got the prescription drops. This was around Christmas time when he was about a year old. There were all these people over and I needed to give him the drops, told her and then went to the bathroom. I come out, and my son is screaming bloody murder and I ask WTF happened because he would fuss, but nothing like that. She said she gave him the drops in his eyes. I saw the bottle in her hand and completely freaked out because she had put EAR drops in his eyes! I brought Carson over to the sink and now he was screaming even more because I had to flush his eyes with water. I gave him an hour and then gave him the proper drops myself. I obviously freaked out on my mom in front of many people and held myself back from completely cussing her out for not reading the freakin' box and what medicine she was putting in.

She is here now to help with Carson and of course he has had a fever so we had been occasionally giving him motrin and switching it with tylenol. Pretty easy stuff, but this has me so worried if I happen to ever get to the hospital to have this baby. Her lack of common sense is really making me nuts. From me telling her how to use my microwave to giving Matt a massage last night (she
found a bottle on top of the tv and used it as massage
oil/lotion/whatever on Matt). The bottle, which she didn't even read,
was freakin' hand sanitizer. This just reminds me of the ear drops
incident. I am just annoyed and feel like I cannot trust her
judgement on things. It just makes me worried because carson has
had a low grade fever over the past two days (100.5 and lower).
Luckily he hasn't had a cough or anything and is eating o.k. It got
me worried about his delay on his h1n1 shot until next Saturday though. I don't think she
would give him any medicine without asking us first, but I would be
afraid of WHAT she would give him. She is great with making him food,
baths etc, but just a bit worried about the hospital stay is all if he
was sick or something. She is having some sort of back inflamation
issue right now and actually brought a back pad with ice pack that
fits inside. It is always amazing to me how I mention that her back
issues are probably not congenital like she says, but more of the fact
that she has a large chest that has weighed her front down on top of
wearing high heels constantly for the past 30 years. She denies
both... I even put instructions on how to use the tv/put on a movie
on a piece of paper and still she is clueless. God help me if she
ever has to live with me full time in years to come.

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