[tiki]

She still walks every day and she can still hit a rattler in the head with one shot. My SIL just thinks that she’s going to take away the aging with some kind of pill.

I just recently put her on an antibiotic that she handles very well because when she was having tooth problems a few months ago and on them, she seemed less senile and seemed to feel better. I’m experimenting because I think she might have a bladder infection but she won’t go to the doctor, I figure it won’t hurt.

She comes up with crazy stories, like my son flies over her house every morning to check up on her and hubby and I just say something like, “Gosh, I didn’t know that.” My SILs tell her that no such thing happens and get her all upset and then they tell us that “She knows better than that”

Needless to say, she prefers for us to come over and when the daughters are coming over asks us to be there.

[GOP Poet]

She still walks every day and she can still hit a rattler in the head with one shot

Just . . . damn :-D. Sounds like she likes you quite a bit. Also have you tried a huge bottle of cranberry juice for the potential bladder infection? When I had them a lot they always worked. Anyway it sounds as though you could be a physician or nurse with the antibiotic dispensing. So what the hell do I know? haha. Glad good, crazy ole' impressive MIL is full of personality. Makes life more interesting and fun huh? ;-).

[Roos_Girl]

If you haven’t read it already, you may be interested in this post. Specifically see the first comment by Swordmaker.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2769347/posts

[Roos_Girl]

Oh, also, for bladder infection you may consider trying D-mannose. It's a natural sugar that prevents bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall. Cranberry juice is fantastic also, but sometimes the sugar in it can be a problem; chug a big bottle of that and you're just asking for diarrhea IMO. But you can get cranberry pills, which combined with the D-mannose will knock out a bladder infection in no time. You can get the D-mannose in powder form that dissolves in liquid with almost no taste or pill form.

I used to get bladder infections all the time as a kid. Drinking orange juice would always give me one, looking at pineapple juice would give me one. Mom always gave me a big glass of cranberry juice and acidophilous pills. Wish we had known about the d-mannose back then!