Head Lice - It's True

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Tuesday morning I was brought a bug in a zip-lock bag. The bug had been just removed from a head. It was a, robust, adult head louse - judging by it's size. It appeared to be very agitated as it was quite active. OK, so I decided to perform a scientific experiment; school nurse myth buster if you will. After poking several pin-holes in the bag I push-pinned it to my bulletin board. Yesterday, when I left, the louse was alive and well and was still displaying agitation, flailing its louse arms wildy in the bag; I thought I noticed some obscene gestures. This morning I must report the louse has perished and, thus, my school nurse myth buster scientific experiment has proven a head louse will die within 48 hours if off of a human head. You have my express permission to share this scientific data with any hysterical parent or staff member.

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
She really knows how to condense something into reality. Nice, very nice. John Denver would use you for writing his lyrics if he was still here.

Yah, well, if it meant I'd have earned the same kind of $$ he made with his albums, That'd be fine with me. I like John Denver.

Now, if you'd said "Rod McKuen" instead of John Denver, I'd have been insulted. He and Richard Bach make me queasy.

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I had a dream about this thread last night! It was a magical adventure!

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
I had a dream about this thread last night! It was a magical adventure!

That's it?????

You're not going to expand on that provocative post?

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
I had a dream about this thread last night! It was a magical adventure!

you can't say that without telling the story

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
you can't say that without telling the story

you can wear your bag

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
you can't say that without telling the story

Notice how she zipped through and hit her 'Like" button, but continued to keep her silence on the matter of the dream?

I'm picturing a Busby Berkley number, like from the 20's and 30's; there's an overhead shot, and looking down we see alternating rings of head lice and 'public' lice, in concentrically larger circles, and each ring is moving in the opposite direction.....each line doing artistic movements with either a fan, balloons, or a cape...

And as the music swells, Far'wyn steps forward to the microphone and proceeds to tell us her dream:

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Notice how she zipped through and hit her 'Like" button, but continued to keep her silence on the matter of the dream?

I'm picturing a Busby Berkley number, like from the 20's and 30's; there's an overhead shot, and looking down we see alternating rings of head lice and 'public' lice, in concentrically larger circles, and each ring is moving in the opposite direction.....each line doing artistic movements with either a fan, balloons, or a cape...

And as the music swells, Far'wyn steps forward to the microphone and proceeds to tell us her dream:

exactly, With "Poems, Prayers, and Promises" playing in the background

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*likes for the quirky elders*

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
*likes for the quirky elders*

You're so compassionate, you young whippersnapper.

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As visions of little lice dance through their heads… I am laughing so hard. Thanks you guys!

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

But she has totally swerved away from the dream....​once again.

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But she has totally swerved away from the dream....​once again.

OH, you saw that, huh?

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