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1:17 PM, Feb. 12, 2008
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This past weekend, as usual, I worked at a local maternity home. What wasn't usual was that 5 of our residents have come down with lice. EWW! One of the toddlers was literally crawling with them. So instead of a fairly peaceful 12 hour shift, where I was anticipating reading my latest TOS magazine, I spent my time looking for and treating 10 residents and their children for head lice.
Because our home is privately run, and relies mostly on donations for survival, our equipment is basic, to say the least. We only have enough sheets and blankets for one set for each bed/crib. This meant that I absolutely had to do laundry before most of the residents could go to bed. I finally got enough clean bedlinens to send the last of them to bed at 3am - and I started by 9pm! I continued straight through with laundry until I left at 8am. This was besides taking time to treat myself once I had all the residents in bed!! And I treated all the upholstered furniture in the house as well, since the chemical used is best applied when people, especially little lungs, are not going to be breathing it in.
My poor husband was so supportive! When I called him from work early on Monday morning to talk, he quickly agreed to leave my jammies in the front hall so that I could strip off and immediately put all the clothes I wore to work in the wash before I basically stepped into the house!
Needless to say, I did not get to bed at anywhere near my normal time on a Monday morning. And I was up at the usual hour too, since I still had school to do with my son, after I took another delousing shower! Oh, the joys of working with a transient teenage population :-)
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