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Lou Sorkin is the Best!!!! Thank you for this Bedbug Website
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caliokitty
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Jul 23 2007 19:24:46
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I wanted to once again thank you for all the information contained on this website. It has helped me through this insane nightmare!!! Here is my condensed story, I have posted before, but just a reminder. We stayed at an upscale resort in Atlantic City. I was bitten and had a very severe reaction. After coming home and researching my bites I determined they were bedbug bites. They itched for over 5 weeks, welted-up, it was horrible. FYI - entering my ninth week and I still have raised bumps that itch if I overheat.
As I was going through the bad reaction to the bites I was attempting to bed-bug free my home. We hadn't seen any in the home but you never know if the little buggers hitched a ride. We live in a single family home, have an upstairs, downstairs, basement and attic. The last 8 weeks have been hell trying to bag everything, clean, through out junk, get rid of cardboard boxes, organize, wash, dry, etc. "just in case" they came home. Five days ago I found what looked like a bedbug by our night stand and another by our window in the bedroom. Needless to say I FREAKED OUT BIG TIME. I went right to this website again and I found information about Lou Sorkin at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I contacted Lou the same day. He was SO VERY NICE, took time to talk to me and was VERY VERY HELPFUL. I overnighted my two bugs that I found. He got back to me the day he received them. I cannot thank him enough for his assistance in identifying the bugs. Fortunately both were not bed bugs. One was in the same family as a bed bug (that is why it looked like it) but not a bed bug.
Had I not joined this website there is a good possiblity that if I showed it to my PCO they may have thought it was a bedbug and I would be at thier mercy. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the ability to search, read previous forum postings, etc. I will continue trying to educate family and friends. We still are in the process of protecting our home. We travel quite a bit and if we lucked out this time I do not want to take it for granted that it we will luck out in the future. Knowledge is power. Thank you for giving me the power I need :)
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Yes, caliokitty, Lou Sorkin is probably the most generous professional I have met in any capacity anywhere! We are indeed so unbelievably lucky to have his help and support.
I'm so glad you have everything under control and that you are talking in the past tense about your bedbug troubles. :) Yay for you!
I'm sure Nobugs appreciates the props. Thanks for the kind words.
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willow-the-wisp
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Jul 23 2007 20:58:46
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nomo ... I've been reading ... you are mentioning bed bugs in the past tense too today!
is there cause for a major celebration just yet--or are you still crossing your fingers? -
Well, I'm hopeful, but I cannot celebrate until I know for certain that I did not give them to the neighbors. Thanks, Willow.
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caliokitty
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Jul 23 2007 23:02:47
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I try to talk in the past tense but I still feel 8 weeks is not enough time to breathe a sigh of relief. We still have many items in bags that we have not opened yet to check for BB's. But no bites and no sign. Each day I feel a bit better. I still have high anxiety at times and my bites are a constant reminder of the BB's. I am sure when we do take our next vacation I will be very stressed about where we stay. I have a kit I'll be taking along with me to check for BB's in the room and will check various blogs, hotel chatter, hotel hell, trip advisor to see if there are any postings about BB's at any hotels we stay at in the future. I think by the end of the year I might feel "out of the woods" regarding BB's not in our house. But since we brought the luggage from the car, into the garage, into the basement, up the stairs, then up the stairs in to our bedroom, it sat in all those places for a bit, then unpacked, somethings did not need to get washed so they went into drawers, two of the suitcases sat in a spare bedroom adjacent to ours, dirty clothes sat on the carpet for a few days, etc. etc. One mature bed bug could have crawled anywhere in the house and been busy laying eggs. We have so many hiding places in this house it boggles my mind to think there could be a BB hiding somewhere looking for its meal. My husband is not allergic to them. Only me and we have two dogs (long hair, small Shih Tzu's) but underbelly is shaved and exposed. You never know. I do feel better then I did 8 weeks ago. But am still diligently using ziplock bags, washing in hot water, drying an additional 20 minutes, I have carpet tape throughout the bedroom to try to catch anything, plus a few other BB traps I made to see if I catch anything. The entire house is quarantined except a few rooms we need to live in. My thought was if we do have them I want to try to confine it to as few rooms as possible. My house has never been cleaner, lol :) Thanks again for everyone's input and help over the past 8 weeks.
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wantmyskinback
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Posted 2 years ago
Tue Jul 24 2007 8:44:41
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Lou Sorkin was gracious and generous. I met him after an hour long phone conversation last winter. I brought him my black specks (which he immediately said was just dirt...whew)... but if you look up the thread I started somewhere called "Lou's Jar" or something like this you will read about how I was up close and personal with his famous bed bug colony. It was shkeevy.... and he had me look through the "loop" to see the eggs babies and adults as they moved around a peice of infested corrogated cardboard....aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!! Thanks Lou. This is Lou Appreciation Day !
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lieutenantdan
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Posted 2 years ago
Tue Jul 24 2007 8:51:10
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Yes Lou has helped me too. Thank you Lou
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