To be annoyed with sister?

[KatHavingKittens]

Hi all,

I haven't said anything, and doubt I ever would unless anything happened again, but I was wondering if I was being unreasonable about my sister's recent behaviour?

We both went to stay at our mum's house for a couple of weeks, she brought her two children. During visit her eldest (8) gets sick with god awful contagious infection. Despite raging temperature where child was given both calpol and ibuprofen which failed to bring it down, it still took her five days to get eldest to a doctor.

My concerns are two-fold: first, the wellbeing of her child (this is not my only concern). Second, I have an immune disorder which my sister knows about. This type of infection has hospitalised me several times. If she had taken my niece to doctor asap, that would have been less time she would have been infectious for. I have acquired infection, become rapidly sick, and having to monitor to judge whether hospital is required.

Due to travelling distances and remoteness, we were both stranded at mum's, so neither of us could have left or gone to hotel, etc.

I realise some of this visit I am being judgey mc judgeypants over, but with regards the infection stuff, AIBU to feel annoyed?

Thank you

Kat.

I don't understand why you or your mum didn't suggest the doctor earlier, I would've done!

Is your mums far from your home? In your circumstances I'd have considered going home rather than get ill

Sorry, missed but about travelling distances!!

I'd have said something though, rather than stew about it, it's a sensible suggestion to go to a doctor

If it were a viral infection then going to the doctors early would have made no difference - they would have said "it's a nasty virus, sit it out". I've wasted many, many doctor's appointments to be told "It's just a virus, sit it out" - if your sister has experienced that as well, I understand why she didn't rush to the GP.

I'm sorry you're suffering with it now - hope you feel better soon.

@sooperdooper - all good :)

@Hassled - known bacterial, doing rounds where DS lives.

Both: both me and mom dropped hints, encouraged, and asked sister to take DN.

Yes drs do tend to want you to wait until prescribing anything now. They are trying to stop us becoming so resistant to antibiotics by not really prescribing them anymore.

She couldn't of helped that you were there or that her son was ill, if it wasn't viable for you to go home it would of been worse for her travelling with ill child.

How remote could it possibly be? If your health was at risk, you should have left.

You could have left, but I think if you check with your doctor the infectious stage of the virus would have happened by the time you saw symptoms. You were already exposed.