Horrible week for school attendance....

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

Aaron missed Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs (I got called to pick him up Thursday) because of a pretty bad ear infection.

Lily has missed Thurs and Fri because of a viral throat infection.

I have gone to the doc 2x in 2 days. :wacko:

Oh where Oh where is summer????

 

[musicmom]

Seriously, welcome to my world. I'm surprised mine even got grades this year. It's been horrible with the strep and flu.

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

This year is better than last, Aaron was almost held back because he missed so much school with ear infections. He had 3 of them that ruptured. Lily always has really good atttendance.

Aaron has only had 2 ear infections this year. I think he is finally out-growing them.

 

[musicmom]

I even pushed to have my daughter to have a tonsilectomy but they don't do that anymore for strep. It worked for me when I was five and never caught it again. Why not now? What do they wait for? Rheumatic fever?

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

Strep is so scary. My mom has a heart murmur because of Rheumatic fever from when she was a kid. I don't mess around with sore throats.

 

[musicmom]

Can you get a murmer from that? I had a murmer for the longest time but it went away for some strange reason. I only get the palpitaions once is a great while. I never knew that.

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

Yeah I guess you can because my mom has a kind of a bad heart. We can't scare her (like jump out at her) because her heart will freak out and she will become faint. She can't get general anesthesia unless it is super necessary because she has a hard time waking from it.

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

I forgot to add...she also went to the ER one time because she was so stressed out that she thought she was having a heart attack. It was the scariest night of my life.

 

[HappyMomma]

In addition to the horrible germ/sick/cold/flu season, Dd just began preschool last November so we've been sick (what seems like) every other week. Ugh

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

Oh that sucks. Sorry to hear that.

Just wait until head lice is the current epidemic...Blarg!

 

[HappyMomma]

Just wait until head lice is the current epidemic...Blarg!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

Last year we had that happen, my sister lives in a not so good part of town and there was a head lice epidemic in that school. Her step-daughter went there and we hung out nearly everyday so of course we had to do the prevention steps in my house as well. It sucked. Thankfully we didn't get it but it was scary.

 

[Music-dad]

I'm not looking forward to any head lice scares anytime soon.

DD's had a great 1st year at school. Her and 2 other kids currently have the attendance record.

 

[.:Kalli Rae:.]

That is awesome! Good job.

 

[musicmom]

My girls had head lice in Pre-K and it was a nightmare. Since they were at a Christian school there was not a policy put into place where parents HAD to get the lice out. So by law the children were allowed to keep reinfesting the other kids. They eventually got it under control.
Now in public school if they find one nit the kids has to leave school!. Yea.

 

[ljmahr]

My girls had head lice in Pre-K and it was a nightmare. Since they were at a Christian school there was not a policy put into place where parents HAD to get the lice out. So by law the children were allowed to keep reinfesting the other kids. They eventually got it under control.
Now in public school if they find one nit the kids has to leave school!. Yea.

That is how it is at the schools my girl's attend. One nit and you HAVE to come get them. They are not allowed to come back until they are free and clear. We had to deal with it once when my 2 oldest went to a daycare but other than that have been pretty lucky. At the school they go to now whenever one person is found to have lice we get a letter saying that another child has lice.

 

[SheilaOcean]

I know! You get one measly little nit, and they wont let them back in school till they are gone. I don't get it. But yeah, lice are becoming a huge epidemic that really needs to be stopped. One great trick is to make sure your girls have braided hair or in a ponytail, keep the hair from flailing about...

That worked for us. We used *link removed by moderator* , but I know there are other things out ther too.

Sheila

 

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