There is no room for blogging! Until now.
Nothing gets the BabyYarnoz Universe back on its blogging feet like a crisis. A massive one. And nothing gets the DQ more fired up like a public health crisis! **itch itch**
Well, both have come home to roost in the GM!
Well, you say, what can be so horrible, so dasterly, to get you out of your blogger's block. It goes a little something like this.... **scratch scratch**
This past Saturday evening, we were struggling through another evening of bathing the kizzles. Finally we get the twizz down. I drudge downstairs to clean up the kitchen from the latest round of dining-al-messy. DQ and KP go off to get on their PJs. **itch, itch**
Then I hear the call, "Miiiike" "Get up here". It wasn't one of those playful tones. This one was business. Something was wrong. I drop the kitchen sponge, and race upstairs to find the girls in the bathroom. Awww... KP had an accident.
"Nope... Look!!!" **itch itch**
DQ holds up a little small white particle, almost like a grain of sand. Hmmm.... Then I see KP scratching her head.... OH GOD NO!!!! " Oh yes!" shrieks DQ.
Lice!
Holy moley!!! It couldn't be. We had a "scare" a year ago with the Pizz. We found something that looked like Lice and we were picking it out for days. We de-loused here and disinfected the whole house. Only to be told later by her teachers, that it was just dirt.
"Babe, it's probably just dirt!" I said, hopefully.
"Nope. Look at this!!!". She gently bends the Pizz' head and shows me other eggs. "I even saw a live one that slithered back down the follicle"
I instantly vomited in the back of my throat! Egads!!! I starting itching myself. Damn, I lay on her bed all the time to read books! OH MY GOD!
Poor KP looked terrified. "My head is scratchy" For how long? " A couple of 3 days".... Oh no!!! WE'RE DOOMED. This was no false alarm, this was full blown public heath crises. My head really started to itch. I thought of all those little lice crawling on my head. I vomited again.
Then I was off. Tasked to go to CVS to buy up some industrial strength mass quantities of Lice shampoo. (We already invested in the comb from last year!) **itch itch ** I get to the store and buy two "large bottles" of shampoo. This would be barely enough to get through the crew once! I raced back home and we began the de-lousing.
Oh did that go on for a day! Everything was stripped down and off. Thrown down into the laundry room. The dryer even got fired up. (No time for energy conservation, when we have to melt those little eggies. Screw this portion of the environment!!!) KP got shampooed and rinsed and combed and inspected and combed and inspected and trimmed and inspected again. She finally got to be ~9 exhausted.
But there was no rest for the weary.
Sunday AM started with Twizzle de-lousing.... as noted with exhibit A, B, and Coco.
Some people tolerated it more than others. DQ had to go off to work, so I was tasked to washing everything in our house. Every sheet, item of clothing, pillow... anything remotely possible to contain lice eggs. The dryer every groaned with delight...
So now, we wait. Hopefully the f-ing insects are all dead. We have to keep combing and combing and combing the eggs out. Then re-shampoo in 7 days.
Argh.
The best part of all this... the Kizzles got sent home from "school" today. Hmmm... that's the only cesspool... er place... that then got this from. Seems they now have multiple kids with lice (as was brought to their attention by the highly esteemed Dr Lewis MD MPH)
So now we wait. Eagerly combing and re combing. Anxiously watching the Kizzles actions to see any signs of scratching.
And I can't wait to do this again in 7 days.!
Although I think the medicine made my hair fall out!
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