We haven’t even been back from spring break for a full week and already bad news home from the school. Apparently the LICE plague has struck *dun dun dun* Run cover your head in mayo and shower caps!!! This could not have hit at a worse time. I’m already paranoid about getting weird spots in my house clean-the fridge seal and the crevices of my washer- but now I can sit and pick my kids over for hours obsessed with sleuthing out any nits hiding on their scalps. And that doesn’t even cover the time I will spend clawing at my own head, squinting in the mirror and begging The Hubster to REALLY look close.
I hated getting lice as a kid. It always made me feel dirty and that dang soap burned like holy hell fires as it sat on my scalp. I would sit there and imagine the lice trying to flee from the toxic rolling mushroom cloud and swear I could feel the outer layers of my brain melting. My mom would bag everything and vacuum every surface in sight. I would sit backwards on a chair and stare at our porch floor what what felt like eons as she patiently combed through every thick strand of my hair ripping the eggs from my hair shaft.
The uproar caused by the LICE plague is something I hope to avoid entirely. I feel a little better knowing that we don’t have carpet for them to live in and that we have mattress condoms on all our beds but someone may still have to come over and stop me from steam vaccing my kids heads if we catch it. Of course I could always try something like this.
Now my head is crawling!!! I hate lice.
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I spent 5 hours combing through my daughter’s hair on Monday. Hope it passes you guys by!
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It seemed the lice plague only hit us when I was a kid when my hair had gotten past my waist. My brother always had VERY short hair, and yet always was the one bringing it home. The last time he had it, I was in high school, and I threatened to end his life if I some much as had an itch. Needless to say, I went a couple weeks without seeing my brother, and I never got an itch.
Oh that sucks, big time!!!
See me knocking in wood REAL hard. Knock, knock knock.
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Oh man, that sucks big time. I picked my daughter up from day care the other day and there was the big yellow sign warning us that a case of lice was found in the daycare. I put some tea tree oil in her shampoo and that helps keep them away. Good luck, sweetie.