BM was blasting Dh's phone and email all week with "poor me" crap which DH left completely unanswered. The silence must have been driving her crazy. Finally, after a fresh crop of texts, DH answered, "all I care about is ss13 right now, that he get his proper medication." That was perfect.

So after all this frippery dh called the school nurse. She did not kick the boy out of school. She said the school could, indeed, put the medicine on. So dh ended up telling me, "I regret not calling them sooner. You were right."

2 Sundays ago Stepmom to the rescue discovers raging fungus on 13 year old autistic boy. Original thread here. http://www.steptalk.org/node/210213

Medicine was supposed to be put on him 3 times a day for 2 full weeks. We did this religiously at our house and bought latex gloves for ourselves to administer it to him. We also put 2 doses on him when we had him 1/2 days cuz we were both very suspicious of BM's follow through. But even knowing her I figured surely she'll put fungus medication on the boy? Surely?

Took SS13 with me on my errands and lunch. Driving home I think I notice something on his hand. I ask him to spread his fingers so I can see. The boy is autistic and has trouble processing language so he spread his fingers on the other hand, not the one I was looking at. Cute. But that alerted me that what I was seeing on the one hand was also present on the others.

SD15 just announced, after looking at an incoming text, that a friend from school just had her cat put down tonight because "her stepmom fed the cat the wrong things."

The hair on the back of my neck rose on end. Knowing SD15's version of things that happen here or even at her mother's, I figure this pal of hers is about the same. It made my blood run cold to think of the conversations the two of them are having about their wicked stepmothers and how the stories they tell each other now will become cemented in their memories as truth for the rest of their lives.