Head Lice

This morning I had a huge surprise while I was doing Harleigh's hair for school. A BUG! Didn't know what it was at first so I kept looking around and found a few more and said OH NO! Harleigh started to completely freak out and cry. Asking me if she was going to die? If they were poisonous or if they were going to eat her head? I had to reassure her, as I was panicking, that everything was going to be okay. I quickly stripped her down and put her straight into the bathtub as I tried to figure out what to do next. I called mom and thank goodness she lives so close to Walgreen's. She said she would quick pick me up a head lice kit and run it over before she heads to work. In the meantime, I stripped Harleigh's bed and threw them in the wash on hot water and started boiling water for all her combs. Mom finally dropped of the kit and headed off to work. So now it was just me, the head lice amateur, and Harleigh! Yikes! Reading the directions carefully, we first shampooed Harleigh's head and killed many more disturbing lice. After the shampoo, we had to gel her hair and use a special comb to remove eggs and any other dead louse that might of not fallen out during the shampoo. After this was all done, her school told me to make sure and blow dry her hair so we did that and then I put her on our bar stool and told her she couldn't touch anything. Poor baby! I then proceeded to clean, clean, clean. I vacuumed the couches, sprayed them down with treatment spray, sprayed down her mattress and ours as well. Continued washing, bagged all of her stuffed animals, finished boiling her combs and then was off to treat myself. Luckily, for me, I found nothing in the water after my treatment. What a relief. Finally, Amy showed up to help me nit(eggs) pick Harleigh's hair. Even though the treatment killed all the lice, there were still eggs stuck on some of her hair strands. The pediatrician just told me that the best way to get rid of them all is to manually pick them out. So Amy nit picked, for as long as Harleigh would let her, while I continued cleaning. Then Brooke showed up to help as well. What lovely sisters I have. Now we were just having ourselves a whole nit picking party. How exciting! Then..........all of the sudden I felt something on the back of my head and pulled a louse out of my hair. AHHHHHH! Brooke then took the next hour and went through my hair strand by strand and found one more louse and one egg. Talk about getting the chills all over your body. Yuck! After this, I used the restroom only to find one more huge surprise....a toilet full of blood. So I called the doc, left a message and jumped into the bath to wash my hair again. They soon called me back and I got in humongous trouble for doing everything I had during the day. Dr. Tabor was not a happy camper and said to STAY OFF OF MY FEET! Oops! So the rest of the evening, Jarrod and my family finished up all the cleaning and laundry! We will not be able to treat ourselves again until next Thursday. So Happy Nit Picking for us until then!