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It’s another.  So far this year, my kids have had severe lice infestations, poison ivy so bad they had to be on steroids twice, and now this.
Pinworms.
We’re really not gross, disgusting people, honest.  Just damn unlucky, I think.
I’m not going to go into the gory details.  If you don’t know what a pinworm is, just google it.  But for the love of all that is good and holy, please don’t look at google images.  I don’t have enough brain bleach for all of you.
The good news is that I didn’t have to take the kids (or samples) to the doctor.  They just took my word for it and called in prescriptions, which consisted of one chewable pill today, and another in 10 days.   For the next month or so, I’ll be constantly washing dishes and clothes, scrubbing surfaces and hands.  So if you want to come over, we’ll all be squeaky clean.
Or maybe you wouldn’t want to come over, seeing as it’s highly contagious.
Apparently adults aren’t as susceptible to pinworms, but there’s always that possibility.  What a better way to introduce myself to my new doctor?  I know that the human body carries hundreds of parasites normally, and that many of them are necessary to aid digestion, yadda yadda yadda, but I really don’t like to think about squirmy little bugglies in my intestines.

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