Background: I am married. My wife has a sister who is also married and has a two year old child. There was a birthday party for him this past sunday.
Story:
3 weeks ago my mother contracted MRSA, an antibiotic resistant staph infection characterized by open sores.MRSA is deadly for anyone, but especially to people with weak immune systems such as small children and the elderly. My sister-in-law tells me that my family (mother, father, sister) is uninvited to the party. I say, okay, my mother was planning on not coming anyway, but that she should talk to them about it. Sister-in-law agrees, and says she'll call them.
Two weeks later, doctors say my mother is healing nicely, and is no longer contagious, unless someone comes in direct contact with the sores. This days also happens to be my sister's birthday, and sister-in-law calls her to say happy birthday. In this same phone call, she says sorry you cant come to the party this sunday, to which my sister replied "what do you mean?"
she had never been told she was uninvited. big hooplah blah blah blah, my family angry with sister-in-law for uninviting people who were never sick. (personally, i think it wouldnt have been as big of a deal had sister-in-law actually talked to them two weeks earlier rather than 4 days before the party.) whatever they get over it.
They asked me to come get the birthday present for the child, (which was received in the mail and never handled by the infected person) and bring it over. I did so.
Now my wife and her sister are mad at me for doing this because i "risked the life of her child," by going to the house of a non-contagious person and bringing an item which made no contact with said person in the first place, to the home of a child.
tl;dr:
Paranoid mother and her sister upset with me for bringing an item that has a small chance of having germs on it into her house.
Is what i did wrong? Am I justified in defending my actions?
Story:
3 weeks ago my mother contracted MRSA, an antibiotic resistant staph infection characterized by open sores.MRSA is deadly for anyone, but especially to people with weak immune systems such as small children and the elderly. My sister-in-law tells me that my family (mother, father, sister) is uninvited to the party. I say, okay, my mother was planning on not coming anyway, but that she should talk to them about it. Sister-in-law agrees, and says she'll call them.
Two weeks later, doctors say my mother is healing nicely, and is no longer contagious, unless someone comes in direct contact with the sores. This days also happens to be my sister's birthday, and sister-in-law calls her to say happy birthday. In this same phone call, she says sorry you cant come to the party this sunday, to which my sister replied "what do you mean?"
she had never been told she was uninvited. big hooplah blah blah blah, my family angry with sister-in-law for uninviting people who were never sick. (personally, i think it wouldnt have been as big of a deal had sister-in-law actually talked to them two weeks earlier rather than 4 days before the party.) whatever they get over it.
They asked me to come get the birthday present for the child, (which was received in the mail and never handled by the infected person) and bring it over. I did so.
Now my wife and her sister are mad at me for doing this because i "risked the life of her child," by going to the house of a non-contagious person and bringing an item which made no contact with said person in the first place, to the home of a child.
tl;dr:
Paranoid mother and her sister upset with me for bringing an item that has a small chance of having germs on it into her house.
Is what i did wrong? Am I justified in defending my actions?
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