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mysid ([personal profile] mysid) wrote2007-10-20 05:17 pm
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Lousy Weekend

My poor daughter is having a lousy weekend. She knows that I have to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb, but she is getting fed up with my nitpicking. Literally.

Yes, friends, lice. We've been having an epidemic of lice at my children's school, and as of a couple days ago, my daughter E is the latest victim. Now we are washing, steam cleaning, and spraying everything. Die, lice, die.
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[identity profile] zoesmith.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

Yeah, I remember... my mother had to cut my hair to get rid of them... it was a bad experience.

I feel for you both.

[identity profile] rwday.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. Been there, done that. You have my sympathy. Even the thought of it makes me itch.
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[identity profile] mad-martha.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, ick! My sympathies. I've been there - not with lice, precisely, but with something very similar. It made me paranoid about the least itch for months afterwards :-(

[identity profile] greenwitch.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh.

When I was in elementary school there was an outbreak, and for a good... 9 months, on and off, my mom kept checking me, finding nits, giving me the shampoos, bagging all my stuffed animals, etc. Finally it got to the point where this just could not be possible, and she sent one to a lab. Turned out it was dandruff O_O She let me get my ears pierced after that, heh.

[identity profile] kenazfiction.livejournal.com 2007-10-21 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no!!!!!!

I remember being in first grade and we had a classroom epidemic. I remember being miserably itchy and feeling such horrific SHAME when my mom took me to the pharmacy to get that nasty, awful "Rid" shampoo!

[identity profile] secretsolitaire.livejournal.com 2007-10-21 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. And ew. Hope they go away soon. (How long does it normally take?)

[identity profile] poicale.livejournal.com 2007-10-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
I am so sorry to hear about the lice! As a teacher, I'm constantly knocking on wood anytime I hear of people getting it, because I know it's SUCH a pain to get rid of. One of my students last year got it three times - but never spread it to anyone else miraculously.

[identity profile] obeetaybee.livejournal.com 2007-10-21 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, man. I feel your pain. My daughter came home with lice a few years ago and then promptly gave the buggers to me. Her infestation was easy to clean up. Mine, not so much. It got to the point (I have long, thick hair) I made my husband cut my hair below my pony tail so we could get all the nits out.

I'll be keeping my fingers cross you can clean it up quickly. *hugs*

(Anonymous) 2007-11-29 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm aware that I'm posting quite late and anonymously (I don't have an acount). For future referance- I remember my own lice experiences, and the chemicals are awful. You can use a mixture of shampoo, lemon juice, and olive oil, spread it all over the hair, and then cover it all with plastic wrap for at least half an hour. It sounds weird, but it kills all the lice. Thank god I'm not in elementary school any more.
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