So many examples I could give but will just stick to what has gone on this week...
Fair enough, she has been ill (bad cough/virusy type thing) She lives a fair distance away from me and she told me to stay away from her from monday-wednesday of this week as she didn't want us to catch it here. By thursday she sounded a lot better but had left work early as she felt knackered. Iasked her if she'd like to come and stay with us so that I could cook her dinner/make sure she got something to eat as she said she'd been too weak to cook. She bit my arm off at the offer and came over...
The next morning she said she felt worse and felt breathless. I said we ought to ring the doctors and get an emergency appointment or even go to A+E of she was breatless. She said no and she would be fine soon. I offered her some food and she said that she had no appetite but I made her two slices of toast anyway and told her to just nibble on it. She wolfed it down. She seemed to perk up and we werehaving a bit of a laugh and joke in the garden and she decided to ring in sick at work. She literally went from being jolly and loud to doing some kind of Kelly Rowland sick voice on the phone, punctuated with coughs. Her phone rang a few timeswith various friends ringing to see how she was and she'd answer the phone by coughing down it and punctuating every other wordwith an over-egged cough. We then drove out to the shops and had lunch, fine all day. Fine last night when I rang her to see how she was.
Then today we went to a barbecue at my uncle's and mum was there. She was fine when we got there,laughing and joking. I asked if she felt better and her face changed. "I just feel weak and sick" she said. Then if people started chatting amongst themselves, she'd start coughing or move her chair into the shade and did a forlorn face. This sounds awful but I left her to it and after half an hour when she got no attention, she played an energetic game of swingball. She nearly batted the ball off the sodding pole. Then she ate a fair amount of barbecue food (off her food?!) Then my aunty sat next to her and asked how she was and the weak face came back out and she started going on about how she'd been unable to get out of bed for three days because she couldn't stand. I said that she should have called an ambulance if she couldn't walk as that sounds pretty serious, my aunt agreed. Then she started going "She thinks I'm making it up!"
I think she's attention-seeking. I know it sounds harsh but I'm sure of it. I think I'mbeing a bitch, no, I KNOW I am but honestly, how do I handle this?