On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:48:31 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 7:03:05 AM UTC-5, Janet wrote:
>>
>> She wasn't their carer; far from it. The grandparents lived in their
>> own home and had come as guests, like us. They only lived a mile from
>> SIL but the selfish bitch rarely visited. Grandad was 96 and stone blind
>> but as sharp as a tack; still running their household and caring for his
>> demented wife.
>>
>> Just weeks after that Christmas dinner, one Saturday morning I got a
>> frantic phone call from my MIL to get over to her parents' house ASAP
>> (50 miles away on the other side of London).Their next door neighbour
>> had phoned to say she thought something was wrong; neither had been seen
>> out for days and demented Granny was refusing to let her in. SIL A, only
>> a mile away, hadn't got time as she was about to go and play netball, so
>> callously passed the message to her parents 200 miles away. They phoned
>> us.
>>
>> Gran let us in, frail, pale, cold and confused, and said Grandad was
>> fast asleep in bed and we really shouldn't wake him up as he hadn't been
>> well.
>>
>> The old man was stone cold dead and obviously had been for several
>> days. In a row on the floor beside the bed, were six plates of
>> decomposing food. She said "I've been making dinners but he's got no
>> appetite, he must be too tired to eat.". She had been sleeping in the
>> same bed beside his corpse every night.
>>
>> The house was icy cold because without him, she didn't know how to
>> work the gas meter. There was no food left in the house. Once we'd
>> dealt with the Dr and undertaker we took Gran home to our place to get
>> her warm, fed and cleaned up and look after her until MIL came to fetch
>> her. Still no sign of, or word from SIL :-(
>>
>> Janet UK
>>
>>
>That is just sad, sad, sad. SIL needed a leather belt taken to her
>sorry, lazy ass.

There's a special place in hell for people like her.

Doris