Extended family

My mother in law has a tendency to share information in ways that we find strange. For example, we frequently get emails clearly written to other people that contain important information (surgeries, moving, international travel, etc.) written to her boss, or other people we don't know. We are cc'd on the email and that is the only way we are informed. Then we get the lovely conversations between these random people and her because apparently they aren't familiar with the differences between "reply" and "reply all".

Since these, frequently dramatic and over exaggerated, emails come often we tend to not pay much attention. So on Tuesday when we were cc'd on an email she wrote to her boss letting him know she would take that afternoon off to go to the doctor about some swelling on her neck we weren't concerned.

Yesterday she got diagnosed with cancer in her parotid gland. They will remove the gland sometime in the next few days and then we'll see if that's it. Worse case scenario we think is lymphoma. Best case is this is all. We'll see how it works out. Of course she is now angry at all of us for not rushing to her side but when you cry wolf people don't know when to take you seriously. Hopefully this will all be taken care of by next week and nothing more serious is happening. We'll see.