I'm sorry but I'm afraid it'll have to happen.

If she tells me one more time that her grandson (C1) is a diabetic and tells me how to look after him I will have to swing for her.

She thinks she's an authority on diabetes because her mother was a diet controlled diabetic and her own doctor threatened her with diet controlled diabetes if she didn't lose weight. If she tells me one more time how she panics if she doesn't get C1 his lunch or tea at the correct time I will hurt her and I'll do it with a manic grin on my face.

I'm sorry but I've a father that is an insulin controlled diabetic, I've looked after him since I don't know what age if my Mummy was at work or if we were out together, it's me that makes sure he gets something more than toast to eat if Mummy isn't at home (it's the only thing he can make without burning beyond recognition). When his blood sugar drops I know what to do, if his blood sugar goes sky high, I know what to do. I've had to bring him round when his blood sugar drops so low he passes out. I've dealt with him being dizzy and being outside in public. If I can do all that and know a hell of a lot more about it than my mother-in-law, why the hell does she insist on telling me each time!!!!!

I can appreciate she worries about C1, we all do he was diagnosed about a year and a half ago and is nowhere near stable yet, but he's still a normal child that likes to normal things, he likes to go out and play with his friends, he still loves to run about and play football etc, he's diabetic that's all, he hasn't changed that much no need for the damn cotton wool to wrap him up in.

She told me five times last night why we're all getting the 5pm bus back from Haven in October and not the 12pm one cause of C1 and when he needs to eat. I know all this. All she had to say was we're getting the later one back and that was all. I didn't need a 20 minute speech on the subject and I didn't need told over and over and over again. I swear that woman is the cause of my high blood pressure.

I love my mother-in-law, she's a lovely lady but she seriously gets on my nerves. All I can do is sit there and listen, smile nod and agree when necessary, and then make a quick escape. She doesn't do this to hubbie, so why me? Does she do it because I know about diabetics and how to deal with them as it were and she feels the need to repeat all of this to let me know she knows what to do also? it's not like I rub it in that I know more about it than she does, if anything I don't mention it at all unless I'm asked and usually I'm asked by C1, not her or is she just a pain in the arse that I'm thinking she is?!

Am just glad I don't have to see her again until Saturday night.