Edited: “Nits”, sorry…
Please give me some perspective, wise people of MN. It’s the middle of the night and I don’t want to cause massive offence.
I’m meant to be going to stay with my lovely sister and her family tomorrow morning. We don’t get to do this very often - we see them perhaps twice or three times a year, due to distance. She has just messaged to say that they have discovered headlice. 🤦♀️
Poor thing is obviously now going through the whole palava of treating everyone and washing everything. Would it be horrifically rude of me to say that we’ll meet them halfway for a day out instead?
The context is that we had a case of ninja-lice a couple of months ago. They just would not bloody die. It took us weeks, and five treatments plus nightly wet combing (of very thick hair, of a ND child who really hated it) to finally get rid of them. By the end, I am ashamed to say that the DC saw me engaging in behaviour which probably wasn’t very healthy and was veering into OCD territory - scrubbing everything that had been touched prior to the most recent treatment etc. I’m not proud of it but I do have tenancies that way anyway and I work hard to not let it affect the kids, but we just could not get rid of them and I was getting a bit desperate. I really don’t want them to be exposed to that again.
The icing on the cake is that over the next week we have two birthday sleepovers (of 19 kids in total) happening at our house. If we bring nits home, there’s a reasonable chance we might be super-spreaders. 😳
Obviously I know that they could get headlice from anywhere and that as soon as school starts again there may well be kids in their class who have them at any given moment, but in this case, we know there are almost definitely going to be stray eggs scattered around bedrooms etc, and the plan was for all the cousins to sleep in together in my nieces’ bedroom. Which my DC were really looking forward to, obviously, but which I feel is very likely to lead to us coming home with lice.
WWYD? I don’t want to be unreasonable or rude but my heart sinks at the prospect of going in to bat again so soon on this one. DH is going to be away with work for much of September, so it’ll be up to me to deal with them if we catch anything!