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vampiremenionprey
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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Nov 18 2008 11:17:41
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So last night I slept like a dream. No bites even (but i have a theory to that) That glass of wine did me some good.
My husband and I decided that it would be best to start from scratch. we've come up with a game plan to help rid us of these nasty blood sucking vermin. First we're starting with our matresses since we can't afford the nice(r) covers. We bought a two air beds and set up our son's last night.
First step was getting the bed out to the dumpster. I pulled off all of the sheets and put them in a garbage bag and proceeded to lift the matress. We noticed at the foot of his bed there was about a 6 inch tear in the encasement! EEK! This left me nauseous to think what we might find on the box spring by his head (where the switch plate is covered in blood spackles). I lifted up the matress and screamed! I dropped it as quickly as I could and almost went into a panic attack as my husband starting laughing!
"what the F@#& is so funny!" i yelled at him as he died in laughter. He was at the head of the bed in tears from laughing so hard. He lifted the matress back up, still in hysterics and showed me what was so funny.
What I thought to be about 10 adult bed bugs (i dropped the matress so quick i didn't get a good look) was purple NERDS (the candy). At that point i started laughing, and crying in relief! Appearently our son had hid some of his halloween candy in between his box spring and matress and the box busted open!
LOL go ahead and laugh, you know you wanna. Besides it will do you some good!
As for my theory about why i didn't get any bites, I vaccumed the hell out of his room after moving the bed out. His box spring didn't have any tears in the encasement, but to be on the cautious side it went out the door. I took the vaccume wand and got all around the phone jacks and swich plates, behind his movie case along the celing and blinds and then all along his closet and shelving. The only bugs that i've ever seen in our room was nymphs which i believed to be coming from the switchplate that was by his head. The walls connect and our bed was against that wall. Today we're throwing out our bed and couches and we will be overly prepped and ready when the PCO gets here tomorrow!
Wish me luck I'm going into this hellstorm with DE, ziplocks, a lighter and maybe some hairspray too! ;)
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I once drove for 6 hours through a storm to get 300 miles from home to identify a fragment of a chocolate biscuit.
For those that are interested chocolate melts at exactly 37 degree centigrade so before you ask the specialist in your area to make a long distance trip place the suspect material in your hand and it is melts its not bed bug fecal material.
Suffice to say the person was less than amused and by the end of a 2 hour inspection finding nothing I was certainly less than amused as well. I was certainly not falling for the idea that the bed bugs lived at the neighbours house during the day and only came across at night to feed from the non adjoined neighbour.
David
Sometimes the simplest solution is in fact true, stop eating chocolate bars in bed and your bed bug faecal material will be restricted to the kitchen -
vampiremenionprey
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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Nov 18 2008 11:29:20
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I love your quotes...Matter of fact I'm still laughing.
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that reminds me when the landlord & PCO came to check, they took the cover off of my mattress & the landlord screamed "holy ***" and almost fell over, backing away. The PCO said "relax, that's lint from the sheets" LOL
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MyWorstFear
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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Nov 18 2008 17:15:23
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LOL, David those people are lucky they didn't have roaches and ants! Who the hell eats chocolate in bed?
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offsides1971
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Wed Nov 4 2009 21:18:38
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I panicked and had my PCO come over the other day. Apparently what I found a little pile of in the carpet were little brown rocks my son tracked on his shoes from the playground. The PCO was very nice but I have been banned from calling the PCO myself. My husband now has to check it out first and he will call if we have an issue.
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Vell23
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Wed Nov 4 2009 23:06:12
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LOL I have a dress that have red shiny circle speckles on it, u know the kinds that glitter. So I washed it and most of the shiny stuff came off and was all over my other clothes and would fall on the floor. One night I came home and turned my light on and saw a red dot on my bed, I ran over, heart beating, bout to act like Rambo but it was just one of the shiny red things from my dress, I was like wooo. Seen one on the floor tonight, gave me a scare again
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