Comments on: Nicholas Brown’s “The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 6″ sounds pretty familiar

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:41:30 +0000

Anonymous, “three sprays” in 5 months are not likely to do anything but annoy your bugs!

That’s terrible. You need to lobby for better treatment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:57:03 +0000

I can totally relate to Brown. We have been dealing with this for 5 months. Three sprays has made the problem less but not gone. We still see them on the walls, ceiling, floor, and even in the kitchen. And I believe that the landlord knew about ours also. There were 13 people living in our 3-bed before us with 11 beds that were trashed. Normally the landlord keeps all articles left behind and tries to sell them. The apartment was also infested with cockroaches. It is totally gross. My kids have no beds and most of our stuff is in the garage for fear it will become infested. I have even had to get a bed bug out of my sisters ear one night. Thats how bad these bugs are! What these bugs have cost us is our dignity and our pride.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:14:15 +0000

Hopelessnomo,

Wonderful assessment. I agree with you on everything–and I suspect you are right about the legality.

I am skeptical about lawsuits in general, as you know. But I would not blame anyone for taking a landlord to court for knowingly subjecting tenants to this, if indeed that is the story.

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:06:03 +0000

We know exactly how he feels, don’t we? The first two weeks of living with bedbugs are harrowing enough, and those days and nights are long and surreal, but when nearing the two-month mark, you really feel like you are unrecognizable to yourself. All you think about is that it will never end.

And, do people understand that in this sad state of affairs one typically has to live with bedbugs for two months? And that, heaping injury where no more can be borne, two months is actually not bad relative to so many other experiences? Let’s not even go into the period, for so many, beyond the first two months.

I’m so sorry for Nicholas. I reread his first post and there was Isabella (remember the dreadful Isabella? A character that is indelible in my mind, so I hope she’s not just a composite) telling his roommate that their apartment should have been sprayed before they moved in. We completely missed that.

I think that is a good question, whether it was illegal. I suspect not, simply in the sense that these things have not yet been encoded, and someone would have to sue I suppose. Maybe people in the know can clue us in. I have no doubt that this is happening all over the city, however.

I really hope his PCO is a good one. It all comes down to the technicians. If they phone it in, it’s all kind of hopeless, no matter how many visits they make, although making those follow-ups every two weeks is really crucial.

Finally, there seems to be two broad categories of experiencing the end of an infestation: those who see progressive improvement, starting with significant improvement after the first treatment, and those who just get hammered up until the end and then, as suddenly as the bites started, they stop.