Thanks, Pam. This article makes me love my mother even more. Pretty much all her life she was spoiled rotten by my father and was very selfish and condescending to anyone who did not have as much money as she did. However, when she ended up in assisted-living she became very nice and sweet to me. I appreciated that She was finally grateful for the attention my sister and I gave her. She handled herself and I think God that she was able to do that. I think it made her last year’s of life much more satisfying. I’m so sorry you deal with this with your mother-in-law. Reading it makes me sad thinking “she can’t be that bad!”
However, knowing you and your kind, intelligent articles, you are certainly not making this up!