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Over 6 months still free and loving it
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Posted 10 months ago
Sun Jan 18 2009 1:23:31
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I last posted here about 6 months ago, having moved from an infested share-apartment, reaching a court settlement for return of my moving expenses and bond, and finally getting into a new place where I could live by myself to wait for freedom or battle on if necessary.
It's been over 6 months now and never found any continued infestation in my apartment. A month after moving I was worried from slight itching / blood spotting on my sheets, but it was just bad skin on my part.
I last pulled my bed apart about two weeks ago - four months after having my new girlfriend move in with me. She asked what I was doing, and I had to explain my past experience with bed bugs. She told me she was afraid of them when she stayed in back packing places too, and that one of her friends had been bitten badly at a place in the past (not where she stayed, though).
What was funny was she said, "Only here in Australia though, not in Taiwan" where she is from. I was really angry when she said that, I told her they were everywhere and travel everywhere, and she didn't believe me. So I brought up bedbugger.com visitor statistics and showed lots of people visit from Taiwan - though it only proves they're researching and are not necessarily infected.
In the end I gave up trying to explain to her and just take solace in knowing my place is clean. No blood, no bugs, no skins, no signs, 6 months and counting (plus a few more months where I was sleeping at work and on my parent's couch).
Earlier in the week she was going out with some friends who where leaving to go back to Taiwan, and she dropped a big bulky backpack in our lounge room so he wouldn't have to carry it. I quickly grab it and put it near the front door. She asked why, and I told her - duh - bed bugs could be anywhere, and better near the front door where we could potentially see them crawling for safe harbor down the hallway than right next to the sofa ... then I sprayed repellent liberally around the carpet around the bag.
So in some ways I'm still very aware of bed bugs. In others - I can sleep fine without checking in my sheets every few minutes, reading this website every day, or pulling the bed apart every week just to be safe - it took about 3 months to let go of those things. Now if I get a mark on my body I assume it's caused by something else like sweating out the hot summer weather here, rather than freaking out about bed bugs.
Anyway I'll probably inspect my bed in a few months just out of habit - because you never know where else you might pick bed bugs up. On the other hand, I'm not afraid, and I wanted to do a quick post to let you know freedom is possible, and tastes great!
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Posted 10 months ago
Sun Jan 18 2009 2:16:52
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Bed bugs are spreading everywhere. It's possible that if your gf grew up in Taiwan, they were not a big deal then. (I don't know the history over there.)
I think everyone thinks bed bugs are associated with the place they first discover them.
Anyway, good 'on ya', BBVPA, and thanks for writing to tell us how you got on.
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