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[quote=Anonymous]This whole thing has been really unpleasant for us so please be kind in your responses, we're just trying to do what is best for everyone involved. We have lice. Apparently it was so bad that we probably had it for a while. All 3 of my children, my husband and myself have it as do my mother and grandmother who we spent a 5 day vacation with a week ago. We discovered it the day we came home from vacation. My husband was not with us on the vacation and he still had it. Our nanny wasn't with us on the vacation either but given my husband still had it and she's probably with the children even more than he is it seems pretty likely she has it too. The timing has been bad because she just had extensive elective cosmetic surgery and has been out recovering all week. We found out the day before her surgery and I told her about it then. She said her hair dresser looked at her hair and didn't see anything and she doesn't feel like she has lice. I offered to pay to have someone come to her house this weekend to check her but she said she doesn't want anyone at her house (and she sent me a pretty nasty text about it). She is coming back to work on Monday (at her insistence because she doesn't want to use anymore of her vacation/sick days even though I will have to have someone else here too if she is still on pain meds) so I arranged to have someone check her at my house. Here's the biggest issue. She has hair extensions so they can't do the usual combing of her hair, they can only check visually if she has it. In addition, if they do find that she has it she will need the extensions removed before they can treat her and she will have to leave them out for 2 weeks in order to do the daily combing that's required. I've told her we will of course pay to have her have them removed and then replaced and whatever other expensive she might have related to this but she's all but said she won't remove the extensions. She's saying that based on the fact that she doesn't think she has any lice. It's possible she will totally comply with what she needs to do if she does in fact have lice but I'm concerned that she will refuse. Is it totally unreasonable of me to say we will have to let her go if she doesn't do it? She's been with us 2 years and the children really love her but if she has lice and won't treat it properly we will just keep getting it and that's not something I ever want to happen again.[/quote]

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