suzy-que

I have a stomach made of steel and nothing really bothers me. At my part time job in a subacute health care center, I enjoy suctioning trach's, have changed dressings for dehisced abdominal wounds... and decubiti where muscle and bone are cleary visible. I have seen toes on the brink of falling off. I have smelled C-Diff on a weekly basis. I have seen a split member from a foley cath that looked like a banana peel. None of this has phased me. However, at my full-time job as a school nurse...the one thing that can wreak havoc in my school and turn a teacher or a parent into a psychotic basket-case is.....HEAD LICE! I have to admit, when I see a louse scurry across a head that I'm checking...I feel a chill go down my spine. To rid a child and home of lice is a dreaded job...I always feel sorry for the parent and try to give them a few words of understanding and empathy. Then I run to the bathroom and put my hair up into a scrunchie!