Tick? What tick? You mean ticks? My sister's hometown visit recently has brought us all tickled to the ground...first with laughter and then with horror! Our jaw almost dropped to the ground when she revealed her story. A few days before, I was talking with my mom, what if my daughters got it......? It will be a hard job getting rid of all that with curly locks like my two little angels. And then, my sister came with a story I almost did not want to hear.
Her daughter has got hair ticks! Too much days spent at kindergarten and transit have paid off rather unexpectedly! How come? She was sitting beside the front gate and was ruffling her daughter's hair when she discovered by accident a few creepy black insects crawling in between her daughter's hair.
"Kira has got hair ticks!" She was sure her loud surprising remarks had made the neighbours wary, straining their ears as far as they could reach. What was the 'kecoh-kecoh?"
It's only hair ticks! Only hair ticks? I remembered when I was in my primary school...bad news...I did not know how I got it, but oh yes...I did have hair ticks...like everybody else at school. Before we knew it, the school was distributing hair tick shampoo for free, to all of us to get rid of the blood sucking insects that had been making our head's skin their home. Errgghhh! How come these creatures live, eat and breed on your head making your head their 'homestay'? Thinking about it alone makes me shiver. Before I even took my bath, I was shampooing,and shampooiing, and picking tick eggs and killing them with my fingernails, like a vengence!
Back to my sis's story, she rescued her daughter fast enough before the parasites took over her daughter's head and hair! She bought a chemical based shampoo,that smell like pesticides (well, you are killing a live bred here!) and with a little bit of prayer and luck, the creatures are gone now.
So, when did the horror part come? This is the best part. Her Indonesian maid, was ecstatic when she discovered the news! How can someone got over excited when a little girl caught ticks? Ridiculous! But...oh yes....true....she got soooooo very everwhelmed because she could spend her spare time killing ticks and their eggs! She even sacrificed her evening walk (which she does religiously everyday) to flip and toss the hair so she could enjoy pulling eggs from the hair strands and pressing them with her nails. Errghh! Is this world going to end soon? I could feel yesterday's meal pressing over my stomach and throat!
I thought only monkeys enjoy this activity. Now I just discovered there is a human being who treats this activity as exciting and adventurous! Gosh! Like the monkeys, I just hope the ticks did not enter her stomach!
Her daughter has got hair ticks! Too much days spent at kindergarten and transit have paid off rather unexpectedly! How come? She was sitting beside the front gate and was ruffling her daughter's hair when she discovered by accident a few creepy black insects crawling in between her daughter's hair.
"Kira has got hair ticks!" She was sure her loud surprising remarks had made the neighbours wary, straining their ears as far as they could reach. What was the 'kecoh-kecoh?"
It's only hair ticks! Only hair ticks? I remembered when I was in my primary school...bad news...I did not know how I got it, but oh yes...I did have hair ticks...like everybody else at school. Before we knew it, the school was distributing hair tick shampoo for free, to all of us to get rid of the blood sucking insects that had been making our head's skin their home. Errgghhh! How come these creatures live, eat and breed on your head making your head their 'homestay'? Thinking about it alone makes me shiver. Before I even took my bath, I was shampooing,and shampooiing, and picking tick eggs and killing them with my fingernails, like a vengence!
Back to my sis's story, she rescued her daughter fast enough before the parasites took over her daughter's head and hair! She bought a chemical based shampoo,that smell like pesticides (well, you are killing a live bred here!) and with a little bit of prayer and luck, the creatures are gone now.
So, when did the horror part come? This is the best part. Her Indonesian maid, was ecstatic when she discovered the news! How can someone got over excited when a little girl caught ticks? Ridiculous! But...oh yes....true....she got soooooo very everwhelmed because she could spend her spare time killing ticks and their eggs! She even sacrificed her evening walk (which she does religiously everyday) to flip and toss the hair so she could enjoy pulling eggs from the hair strands and pressing them with her nails. Errghh! Is this world going to end soon? I could feel yesterday's meal pressing over my stomach and throat!
I thought only monkeys enjoy this activity. Now I just discovered there is a human being who treats this activity as exciting and adventurous! Gosh! Like the monkeys, I just hope the ticks did not enter her stomach!
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