It's official.....every bug or insect is living in my townhouse!!! We were missing lice - but hey, Lucie decided to house them as well!!! All are welcome...Bienvenidos!!! L I C E !!! Ewwww!!!
Lice has always been a big issue at the orphanage - the main reason Martita never has long hair is because about 3 times a year, they have a lice issue and with 40+ kids, it's just easier to cut hair than to clean it!! Now I understand after spending an hour combing through Lucie's!! You have this tiny little comb that you have to comb through each hair from root to end. It's a long and painful process (for both Mom and Lucie).
Leyla - one of the girls from the orphanage - was playing with Lucie's hair (everyone here is obsessed with Lucie's hair) and started to show me the little "nits" - I couldn't see anything!! I am always looking for the little black bugs myself - but I guess that comes later. If you are completed FREAKED OUT at this point - I don't blame you - so am I!!! Just writing it down gives me the chills - eeewwwwww!!!
So of course, I attacked this issue full force. I hand washed every sheet, pillow case and stuffed animal that the girls sleep with - I did my hair and Martita's just in case and sprayed every surface with Lysol. You are suppose to use extremely hot water to kill the little suckers but all we have in Nicaragua is cold water - yes, that's right....there is no hot water here!!! So the detergent I use has bleach in it and with the sun drying everything, I am praying we have killed the little suckers for good!!!
I was schooled on what not to do to avoid getting lice in the future - Do not lay on any of the beds at the orphanage - do not use any of the girls' combs and brushes - and then I was told that hugging the girls is an issue because many times your heads touch - hair touches and that's when the lice jump over to you - YES they jump!!!
Well, I'm willing to give up a lot here but not willing to stop loving on our kids and having a blast at the orphanage. So albeit, I have avoided lice all these years - I'm afraid this may not be our only appearance. I know......eeewwwwwww!!!
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Bless you my darling and brave daughter. what else can I say but BLESS YOU!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try to reach you on Skype tonight. We're leaving for our summer trip tomorrow morning, and will be doing a few "one nighters" until we reach Denver on June 2nd. But will try to stay in touch.
I'm so proud of you and wish you didn't have such a hardship to bare, thank God for the blessings that come with it. Thank you for all you are doing so we can have Martia in our family. I love you, kiss the girls. Love Mom XOXOXOXOXO
Hay No...PIOJOS!!! lol I know its not funny but the way you put it just cracks me up. Hey but whatcha gonna do but laugh, right?!?!. I don't blame them, even the piojos love being around you girls;)Hope you got rid of those little suckers.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE MY WIFE...SHE IS "TROOPER EXTRAORINARE"!!! GO BABY GO! We are going to film your Survivor audition tape while I am down there in a couple of weeks (well and maybe a couple of other things as well ;-)...you are a shoe in for that show for sure! And Ivania is right...piolos are not funny but you have me cracking up! XOXOXOX
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