tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post5044352359355019122..comments2023-10-21T03:54:12.029-04:00Comments on A Gift Universe: 10 plagues of familiesSheilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10853868724554947854noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post-19850295486729761092017-12-02T23:17:45.854-05:002017-12-02T23:17:45.854-05:00"Mild itching when reading this post is proba..."Mild itching when reading this post is probably psychosomatic" made me CRACK UP.<br /><br />I imagine that children between the ages of 1 and 4 could be given things like warm milk with honey, though I've never been able to get J to drink anything but water and juice.The Sojournerhttp://clearingthesill.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post-19048742580688251282017-11-03T17:37:45.358-04:002017-11-03T17:37:45.358-04:00I could have stayed ahead of the fleas if it weren...I could have stayed ahead of the fleas if it weren't the month Michael was born. I would lay him down for a nap and want to sweep or vacuum, but within minutes he'd be screaming because a flea had bitten him. It was awful, and I was so ashamed I told nobody but my mother. That was one of the worst periods of my life ... only topped by the few months Miriam was a newborn.<br /><br />Maybe pinworms don't like your climate! Or maybe something you eat is a natural poison for them. I know people in some countries commonly take a dewormer once a year anyway, and that's got to cut down on minor parasites like pinworms.<br /><br />As for impetigo, it's just another name for a mild staph infection of the skin. MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant version. So it's probably just the name you don't know. And it's not super common. I've never had it, but my mom has. And Miriam had it last year, though we managed by some miracle to keep her from passing it to anybody.<br /><br />Schools are petri dishes. Now people are telling me not to worry, being constantly sick is common for a child's first few YEARS of school. Years???Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853868724554947854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post-77068317851340160602017-11-01T15:02:54.664-04:002017-11-01T15:02:54.664-04:00+JMJ+
Is this "Nature is beautiful and terr...+JMJ+ <br /><br />Is this "Nature is beautiful and terrible, Part 2"? LOL! Well, maybe just the terrible part. <br /><br />I had a plague of ants in my old bedroom and bathroom as well, which was crazy because I didn't eat in there. I tried everything short of sealing the crack in the wall where they were all obviously coming from. The new owners have probably already done that. <br /><br />There was a mouse in the faculty room when I worked as a teacher. I had heard stories about "Ben" (named after the Michael Jackson song and the movie it was on the soundtrack of), but never had evidence until the morning I saw that a chocolate bar I had left in my desk cabinet had been gnawed at. Oh, Ben . . . <br /><br />My sister's dog gets the drop on the back of the neck regularly. And boy, does she treat all of us like we're traitors when she gets it! We've never had an outbreak like you did, though. What a story! <br /><br />I don't remember pinworms and impetigo being "a thing" when I was a child--either in my home or among my classmates at school. Reading about them here reminds me of when I went to New Zealand and heard about meningitis for the first time. All the Kiwi kids knew all about it and how dangerous it could be, but the Asian international students didn't seem to. I mentioned this to a Kiwi doctor and she said, "People from [country redacted] all have meningitis living in the back of their throats anyway, so they don't get sick." (That's definitely not a direct quote, so people with better medical knowledge must forgive my memory. But I'll never forget the students from [country redacted] being totally offended!) Anyway, I know that Filipino children can get "worms" when they aren't eating properly, but this is the first I've heard of butts being itchy! <br /><br />Finally, the common cold . . . Speaking of being a teacher, schools were germlandia. I think that all the time I was teaching, I had a cold more often than I didn't have one. My poor immune system had something to do with it, too, of course, but now that I'm out of academia, I rarely catch colds. And that's despite taking public transportation nearly every day! Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com