We are battling the head lice.
Apparently it is going around our church and community.
We missed church because of it last Sunday. We treated it and thought we were in the clear. But the more I heard, the more advice I got from nurses and the more that I read online, I began to realize that we were not done with it just yet.
After just 2 days, I found a live one. From what I understand, the lice are resistant to the over-the-counter products.
So after 3 days of no sleep, 82 loads of laundry and vacuuming until I want the vaccum to suck me up and take me away, I called the doctor. I am desperate.
The Dr called in a prescription today for us to get rid of the lice. I got a $120 2oz bottle of lotion that supposedly will knock it out.
I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I do not know what I would do if I was a working mom because the cleaning in itself is a full-time job!
So- my advice. Don't let anyone tell you that you are safe to go out and about with the lice once you did the first treatment! If we had, we could have given it to friends, family, complete strangers!
Check your kids/husbands/self every single day. I missed 2 days of checking and then that is when we found them. It is going around the church/daycare and you know that they are not washing/vacuuming/cleaning every single day.
Not to scare you, but I promise you that this is not something to mess around with. It is like having fleas or termites, only it is on your head and you can not kill it with one spray of pesticide. It takes an average of one hour a day for me to go through all of GBK's hair just to make sure that I didn't miss an egg. (Because the over-the-counter shampoo does not kill the egg- so if you miss one egg, you are welcoming a whole new colony.) I found 6+ eggs last night that I had missed before. So we are staying home.
This is worse than the flu, an ear infection, and a paper cut all put together.
Madi and I are in a wedding Saturday- the festivities begin Friday afternoon!
Pray for me. I am delirious.
Apparently it is going around our church and community.
We missed church because of it last Sunday. We treated it and thought we were in the clear. But the more I heard, the more advice I got from nurses and the more that I read online, I began to realize that we were not done with it just yet.
After just 2 days, I found a live one. From what I understand, the lice are resistant to the over-the-counter products.
So after 3 days of no sleep, 82 loads of laundry and vacuuming until I want the vaccum to suck me up and take me away, I called the doctor. I am desperate.
The Dr called in a prescription today for us to get rid of the lice. I got a $120 2oz bottle of lotion that supposedly will knock it out.
I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I do not know what I would do if I was a working mom because the cleaning in itself is a full-time job!
So- my advice. Don't let anyone tell you that you are safe to go out and about with the lice once you did the first treatment! If we had, we could have given it to friends, family, complete strangers!
Check your kids/husbands/self every single day. I missed 2 days of checking and then that is when we found them. It is going around the church/daycare and you know that they are not washing/vacuuming/cleaning every single day.
Not to scare you, but I promise you that this is not something to mess around with. It is like having fleas or termites, only it is on your head and you can not kill it with one spray of pesticide. It takes an average of one hour a day for me to go through all of GBK's hair just to make sure that I didn't miss an egg. (Because the over-the-counter shampoo does not kill the egg- so if you miss one egg, you are welcoming a whole new colony.) I found 6+ eggs last night that I had missed before. So we are staying home.
This is worse than the flu, an ear infection, and a paper cut all put together.
Madi and I are in a wedding Saturday- the festivities begin Friday afternoon!
Pray for me. I am delirious.
1 comment:
I'M SO SORRY!!!!! I hope we get rid of them soon. I will pray for both of us.
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