Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Headlice (Second Post)


I’m a kindergarten teacher; my classroom has had monthly infestations of lice we just can't get rid of them.  I had another student with nits yesterday, of course it was someone I’d worked with head to head.  Last night as I lay in bed reading before sleep I noticed an odd feeling on my scalp.  I reached up into my hair and found something crawling.  I quickly plucked the thing off my scalp. I needed to see the lice to make a sure diagnosis, but I did not want to chance it getting away to come back and …do whatever lice do.  I quickly decided I’d put it in a sandwich bag so I could do a Google search and identify it.  Great idea, I could see it and  I would be able to keep it contained.
Running through the house with my pajamas flapping at my legs I tightly pinched it between my thumb and pointer finger, I could feel it squirming, twisting in my grip.  I used my left hand to open the cupboard door, grabbed the box of Ziplocs.  Using my teeth I opened the bag with my left hand.  I reached in and released the small leaf into the bag. I was a victim of a sunny day at last recess with a gentle wind, and an overly active imagination.

5 comments:

  1. Just reading about head lice makes me scratch my head!

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  2. Laughing out loud! So it was squirming in your pinched fingers? Ha! Ha! The fear of head lice is great, I understand.

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  3. Ditto. Ditto to the comments above. I had a little girl that kept scratching her head this week and so I began to have my head itch.

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  4. I taught first grade and every year, whenever the round of lice came, my head always itched terribly. The school nurse must have gone away laughing every time I asked her to check my head. You brought back many memories and made me laugh (she says as she scratches her head).

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