Ah. Thank goodness for disinfectants.
The potential health hazards from working with children are abundant. In my short 4 years (and counting), I have certainly run through the gambit. Of course there's always the common (and not-so-common) cold, the fever, the stomach bug, the runs, and my personal favorite, pink eye. There was strep (which was a doozy) and then the most recent lice fiasco. To live without ever having to plastic bag all of your personal belongings, chemically treat your infested hair, douse it all in olive oil, wrap it up in a shower cap and comb through it strand by strand daily -- to live without these experiences would have been too easy.
Thankfully now lice free, I acquired a post nasal drip and healthy cough, which seems to be turning into a sinus infection. But, good news. Thanks to my high risk working environment, my boss paid for my seasonal flu vaccine on Tuesday and my H1N1 nasal spray vaccine this evening -- so here's hoping for the best! Perhaps I'll end this year without ever having found the flu.
After wiping my poor student's nose, he beams up at me. "Thank you, Leeez!" he says before running off to bake some more cakes in the sandbox. I look around and realize there a few other noses that need wiping, perhaps a diaper that needs changing. But I have to laugh as one boy organizes a trip to Africa ("Let me just call and see if they're open!") and one girl composes a song with a flute and microphone made out of Legos ("I like to go go go, woo hoo hoo") -- the moments are endless.
And I realize, I love working with children. So much that I don't even mind wiping the occasional nose.
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