I Removed a Parasite From Your HEAD!

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Yesterday was a big day.

The wife and I took Little Dude to get his pre-kindergarten eye exam.  Shocking beyond belief is that the progeny of two extremely near-sighted people has almost perfect vision.  Not so shocking was that Little Dude messed with the heads of everyone trying to evaluate his vision by deliberately misnaming the images he was

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Your little boy is so adorable :)! It's also a blessing that he has good eyesight since many kids (including some in my family) are burdened with glasses at the tender age of say---five? Thanks to the workings of genetics.

Thank goodness it wasn't lice. I remember how my mother screeched when she found those critters in my hair back in kindergarten.

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Well, he certainly thinks he's adorable; the kid's a grade-A ham most of the time. 9_9 Saints preserve us, I think I've spawned a comedian. And yeah, five is a bit too young for glasses.

Well, I've dealt with lice when we had roommates. Lice are nothing and can be dealt with via special shampoo and thorough cleaning. Pulling off a piece of my son's head (because that sucker had cemented itself in there) is a sensation so revolting I can't quite describe it. *shudder*

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Pulling off a piece of my son's head (because that sucker had cemented itself in there) is a sensation so revolting I can't quite describe it. *shudder*

That definitely takes some courage. I'd be scared shitless to go near it. Reminds me too much of this 1993 horror flick called Ticks. Not recommended or acclaimed in any way, but it does succeed in emotionally scarring (and scaring) young children. I've never been fond of entomology ever since.

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I got a tick embedded in my chest when I was eleven. I was staying at my friend's house, and her father got it to back out of my skin by putting the burning end of a cigarette on it. Talk about trauma. I was eleven and had to be naked in front of a grown man and stand perfectly still while he placed a burning object on my chest.

But I was never so cute afterwards as the Little Dude.

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I had one on my stomach when I was little, too. It seems to be a rite of passage. ;) But the match thing was something we thought to try, too. My mom suggested rubbing alcohol and then dish detergent. Nothing was budging that guy (and you sure don't want a match near your kid's hair after dabbing rubbing alcohol on it!), and the CDC site said that there really is nothing that removes ticks other than pulling once they're embedded.

All the adults were more traumatized by the experience than the kid with the parasite stuck to his head. Ah, delicious irony.