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Declared free
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Frederick
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Posted 1 year ago
Fri Sep 5 2008 14:26:08
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After 2.5 months.
Due to initial extreme measures (cleaning, isolating, treatment) and a total of three treatments and two BB dog visits, I am now free.
Our PCO has declared us free, and the BB dog follow-up visit smelled it in one mattress (that literally has three encasements on it) that we are tossing out in the bulk trash (clearly marked) on Mon morning. I'm just not comfortable keeping it around, despite hte encasements (if it was declared free we were going to use it as a spare mattress). Everything else was clear, it has been two months since I last had bites, and almost two months since hte last live nympf was found. Nothing dead has been seen in over 30 days. All appears clear.
I still have not relaxed my guard and probably never will (bedding is washed weekly, pajamas is never worn more than once before it's washed, weary of hotel rooms etc going forward), but I can't describe the feeling of finally being free. I'm broke, but that's ok... :-) (We ended up replacing all the beds because we just weren't comfortable "in case" something got out, somehow. It was just a peace of mind thing -- i'm sure we would have been fine due to several encasements on them. But we did keep that one mattress, which now will be disposed of).
Our PCO is excellent and the K9 unit was great as well.
I'm in Maryland so pm me if you want more info
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Frederick
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Posted 1 year ago
Fri Sep 5 2008 14:29:03
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Oh yeah, and I got the protect-a-bed encasements for all our new mattresses and boxsprings - they went on immediately after we received them (plastic off -- encasements on). Better to be safe (and broke) than sorry. :-)
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Congratulations
Always good to hear a success story.
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Itchy-Scratchy
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Posted 1 year ago
Fri Sep 5 2008 17:58:35
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Frederick, I'm so happy for you! I'm so glad you shared the news.
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livinginahorrorfilm
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Posted 1 year ago
Sat Sep 6 2008 9:53:27
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Thank you soooo much for sharing your success! I am only on day 5 of the fight, and stumbled accross this site looking for information. While I have found AMAZING information to help in the fight, and wonderful support, I must admit - that I panicked more, A LOT more when I started reading about just how hard it can be, and the lenghths peole have gone to with no success.
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buggyinsocal
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Posted 1 year ago
Sat Sep 6 2008 10:07:01
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Congratulations! It's always heartening to hear that all that hard work can pay off. Thank you so much for sharing the good news with all of us.
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