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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not this year but my worst example of being that family was discovering at the airport on the way to my SIL’s house for Thanksgiving that my son, who was about 6 or 7, was crawling with lice. (In my defense, I had been away for a couple weeks before that dealing with a parental health crisis, so no mom eyes had been on the child’s head for a little while; my husband had just missed it.) My SIL had a baby and a toddler with long thick lustrous hair. And she had not dealt with kid lice yet, so was not inured at all to the idea. We immediately started treatment and had my son wear a hat covering his whole head while inside their house and to my knowledge nobody else got it—but I was very aware of being a SIL who could turn up in one of these “can you believe it” threads.[/quote]

It is diabolical that you still went on this visit, with a baby and toddler in the house you were visiting no less.

I had lice once as a kid, I had very long very thick hair and was so traumatized by the experience and how long it took to get rid of the lice due to aforementioned length and thickness that whenever I got the “lice email” from DC’s school I’d check them for the next three weeks. Thankfully escaped them ever getting lice but I’d be so upset if someone brought their infested kid to my house.

I had someone sort of do this on a family vacation and it sucked. Lice literally falling out of this child’s head level of infestation (I saw lice drop out of their head more than once as we were walking around or sitting at meals, I saw lice crawling on their parents/siblings shirts) and they didn’t start treatment for days because they would’ve had to have skipped the Disney portion of the trip. My skin crawls thinking about it. [/quote]

Not to mention the people sitting in your seats on the plane’s next trip.  You should have stayed home…[/quote]

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