I'm sorry, this is a long one, and sorry if I make anyone itch!
Me and my SIL are not close, at all. But my nephew's birthday was a few weeks ago, and my home business is making novelty birthday cakes and I'd made him one, (free of charge, even though she said she'd pay for the ingredients but didn't, because I'd already bought him a ballpit, but that's another thread). So they'd come to collect it, my SIL, my nephew and my niece.
As is customary when I see my niece, I gave her a big hug and offered to do her hair. She also hugged my toddler, who has a mop of gorgeous mixed-race curls.
Halfway through her braiding, my SIL casually mentions that she has a 'really bad case of nits, so watch out yeh?'
I'd already hugged her, she'd hugged my toddler. Her hair was loose. I left that conversation for facebook when she'd left. She said she'd forgotten about it until I did her hair, and that we couldn't have caught them that quiclkly.
Well, I did.
I'm now sitting here with a head full of fullmarks. Watching my toddler for any signs of itching, debating whether to treat him anyway and risk damaging his hair, which I've been painstakingly maintaining since his BIRTH.
I am just so angry at her disregard for anyone else's head! I am upset for my niece, who tells me she's had headlice since before the summer holidays and all my SIL has done so far is pour vinegar on her head because the solution is too expensive.
AIBU for being so angry. My partner has told me to drop it, say no more, just get rid of the lice. I don't think she should get away with being so blasé.