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Feeling SO helpless..Mother won't cooperate. Everyone thinks I'm insane!
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AllAlone74
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Posted 3 months ago
Tue Aug 11 2009 8:56:21
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Okay so here's the story: I live with my mom and about 4 weeks ago we discovered that bed bugs were running rampant throughout our neighborhood. My mom told me she thought she was getting bitten but I didn't feel like I was so I let it go for about a week until I actually started to feel like maybe somethin was biting me as well. I went online and did some research and discovered some brownish dots on my box spring which the website described as bed bug feces. After looking a little more I found what could have defintely been a shed skin. IMMEDIATELY I called in a PCO (they came that day and it was a sunday). I made my uncle throw away my bed and box spring (as I FREAKED out). I came on here and emptied my closet to wash everything...
Heres where my problem lies:
The day the PCO came we bagged all of my mom's clothes that were in her drawers....she had papers under her bed that sit in the corner with the bags of stuff...including shoes and other items that were in drawers, under the bed...THEN she also has a cloest in her room...She doesn't feel it is necessary to go through any of these things right now because according to her "the exterminator came in and said he didn't really see anything".. She hasn't gone through anything and all this crap continues to sit in the corner of the room, not to mention the closet that hasn't been gone through...she put a mattress encasement on her bed that has ripped...She won't take the proper precautions and I THINK she may still be getting bitten but she claims it is mostiqo bites from being outside...THERE ARE NO BUGS HERE she screams at me...My aunt tells me the same thing...I had all my clean laundry sent to my boyfriends and I stayed there for two weeks. I am back home now and I didn't get bit last night but I am scared to death and I am so depressed. I cry all day long. I cry on the way to work, on the way home, in the bathroom, all the time. My boyfriend thinks I'm INSANE...I am so sad. I'm "sleeping" on a new aerobed I bought with white sheets and I wake up every 5 minutes thinking things are crawling on me..I put double sided tape around the bed where they could climb up...
The reason I went back home is beause I missed my cat..She's not well and I give her meds everyday but I didn't want to leave her without my company for too long, so I am back..I can't take her to my boyfriends because he has a cat and she is contagious (feline leukemia)...I FEEL TRAPPED. I feel like a mess...Theres this cloud over my head that won't leave. i've done everything I could, now what? How can I do anything when no one believes there are bugs but me? The PCO is coming back in two weeks. They said last time they didn't see anyting and they also didn't seem to tell my mom to move her crap and that it couldn be harboring bugs? IS IT ME? I need support, I have none. I have never felt so out of control and alon ein my whole life...I don't see any of my friends anymore, I feel like I have a contagious disease...
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BuggedInSomerville
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Posted 3 months ago
Tue Aug 11 2009 9:48:23
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AllAlone:
You really are not alone at all. When nobody else you know has gone through the experience of having bedbugs, nobody can truly understand the sense of despair they can make you feel.
I discovered a live bedbug on my sheets last Friday morning; all over the weekend, I was either on this site, or crying hysterically by myself, or frantically cleaning and packing my clothes (not to mention throwing out some of my favorite possessions...). I can totally relate to how trapped you must feel; I'm living with my parents for a few weeks, and I feel like all of my clothes and possessions are toxic, so I've been using my car as my closet and entering the house with nothing but my underwear in an attempt to prevent anything from entering the house. So yeah, it's a HORRIBLE cycle, and it seems like it will never end. But it will. Positive things happen to positive people; it might feel like hell now, and I'm sure it seems like there's NOTHING to do about the problem to fix it, but it really is a character-building experience.
I'm not sure what your PCO did, but with most, the sprays that they put down have a residual effect. Very few *actual* bugs get hit by the PCO; rather, when the bugs come back out at night, they cross places where the spray went, and they walk through the chemical residue and that eventually kills them. While it's not a good thing that your mother had some clutter, know that any bugs that did survive there might not have many other save havens in the house, now that the PCO has done his trick.
Also, something to look into, if you're super paranoid (which I am too), is diatomaceous earth. You can buy it at many home and garden stores. I haven't used it myself, but I've read a lot about it; you can sprinkle some where the bugs go, and the particles in the powder will slice the bugs and that kills them. Research it a bit more before you buy, but that is one solution I've read a lot of good things about.
Remember: thousands and thousands of people have been through what you're going through. You'll make it; life will again be normal.
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