Got Bed Bugs? Bedbugger Forums » General Topics
SLEEPLess in New YOrK
(22 posts)-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 4:05:02
#
Login to Send PM
Anybody in town know of a 12 step meeting for Xbed-buggers? At least that is what I (hope! :wink:)
I am. All alone with the PackTite set on '8'. Cozy....the temps are down in town 'n out the door I ramble with bag 'o books I scramble across the avenue to shuck these books into a city can, they're labeled man--would not do that to you/what else CouLD I DO....cept feed the cat and scratch my back and pop a xanax blues.Moreover--could this be a success story gone bananas?
(is this what happens when the bugs r gone) so much has changed--yet to move on--what would that mean to one who grown lean on cigarettes and black-board-dreams--it's feelin' kinda sexy-to be so f*kin' texty. I feel I've come a long hard way--but here is where I wanna stay, I'm feelin so cilecto.
Just swallowed the pill, then fed the cat--it won't be long til I come back.
And Ms. Clavell said all is well cuz Madeline 's in the oven.
Bemelmans cooks with other books that all fit- tin the PackTite Inn
Let's blog until tomorrow.Sleepless inthecity--that NEveR SLeepS!
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 15:14:59
#
Login to Send PM
Sorry for this spectacle-of-a lapse! Before wandering to the poster's Twilight Zone @3am. What I meant to post is:
Anybody in town know of a 12 step meeting for Xbed-buggers? At least that is what I (hope I am)
Now that my brain is no longer in that over active/over tired state, here's the scoop.A place where you ready your typing fingers @ the keys and SHARE--my name is barbie and I'm a bedbugger. Or--my name is Doug C, I'm feeling bugg-y. Like that!
OR--my name is Dunn and I'm feeling defeated, there's bags everywhere--I can't find a thing-and I've got no bling cuz I pawned the rings to pay for the dog that found the bugs--yeah arhgg & uhgg.... I think I'm done.
Anybody interested in posting useful information in the FUNNY FORMAT?
-
mam417
junior member
Joined: Nov '10
Posts: 86offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 17:44:54
#
Login to Send PM
OK, this is SO wierd...due to my extreme mental difficulties over these stupid things (pyschosis? neurosis? completely-wasted-beyond-repair?) I've been thinking the same thing - there needs to be a BB 12 step....Everyone would be sitting in plastic chairs in their haz-mat suits and flip flops. At the door would be a 91% alcohol trough to dunk your feet in upon entry/exit. The coat room would be a couple of (plugged in and cooking) PackTite Closets. Just imagine the possibilities? This could really work....
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 20:59:22
#
Login to Send PM
I don't KNOW 147. Seems like we always be somewhere on the same page. Let THe GOOD TImeS ROLLLL!!!!
I L-O-V-E it! YOU are my stage manager Mam. Haz-mat suits and flip flops--can't beat it. Surprise
Surprize open up your eyes and walk-up to the micr-o-phone and tell us all about your home.Well I'm done. Good and fried. There'll be no mo' posts to-nite. (can you here the back ground music?)
btw-- nobugs approves....There'll be no fight tonite....la-da-dUm, it's a hipster thread ------
so grab your hat and yer suit haz-mat and to the beat grab a plastic seat ...... lets- hear- it- for- the-bugs buuugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yeah yeah yeah.....................And welcome to the funny farm. It's Bedlam here. We need a space where we feel safe, a clean and mean motorized Machine!
-
blargg
member
Joined: May '11
Posts: 339offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 21:29:39
#
Login to Send PM
I recommend seeking medical attention.
-
cilecto
oldtimer
Joined: Aug '08
Posts: 3,869offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:16:20
#
Login to Send PM
Humor and pastries are useful coping mechanisms.
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:25:01
#
Login to Send PM
blargg - 55 minutes ago »
I recommend seeking medical attention. -
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:31:58
#
Login to Send PM
I like your recommendation, unfortunately I am without medical insurance
"Plus" I'm outta scratch............that's$$$ btw -
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:37:47
#
Login to Send PM
cilecto - 17 minutes ago »
Humor and pastries are useful coping mechanisms. -
AshamedandScratching
senior member
Joined: Aug '11
Posts: 660offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:44:52
#
Login to Send PM
I have Oreo pudding, red wine and flip flops.
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:46:16
#
Login to Send PM
Cilecto............the bugger i been lookin' for. Intrigued soooo intrigued by your pro-fi-le.
Cilecto, mechanism...I like that word. (sound like a man)
cool baby lets-go-an-eat-pastry--just for laughs (and the Buuuuggs) -
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sun Oct 16 2011 22:54:15
#
Login to Send PM
Oreo puddin hmmmmmm is that some kinda politically incorrect desert cuz if it is im all for it.
-
cilecto
oldtimer
Joined: Aug '08
Posts: 3,869offline
Posted 1 year ago
Wed Oct 19 2011 13:21:37
#
Login to Send PM
bedbugsuptown - 2 days ago »
Cilecto............the bugger i been lookin' for. Intrigued soooo intrigued by your pro-fi-le.
Cilecto, mechanism...I like that word. (sound like a man)
cool baby lets-go-an-eat-pastry--just for laughs (and the Buuuuggs)Ci, as in Cimex
Lecto, as on Lectularius
<---Those aren't bugs, they're rugalah pastries. (I spotted a tray of these and was struck by their resemblance to the pictures of BB clusters on various sites.) -
AshamedandScratching
senior member
Joined: Aug '11
Posts: 660offline
Posted 1 year ago
Wed Oct 19 2011 15:29:09
#
Login to Send PM
Cilecto-- Don't ruin good pastries! D:
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Thu Oct 20 2011 20:56:54
#
Login to Send PM
cilecto, I'm STILL Catholic and I confess that I do get yur tag........it's just the way the name rolls off the tonque--with a soft 'c'. Mmmm, delicioso--pass the pastries pleeze.
Speaking of which (the very IT-'n- smart cilecto=not an it.) my non-too-gay at the moment upstairs neighbor knocked on my door for some buggerLY advice just last night. His place is absolutely insane.
IM NOT CALLIN HIM A HOARDER EXACTLY but he's a seamtress royale & his place is his shop. And no way would anyone really want to visit up there. The place is full of 30 years of 'drag'--get it?Not that it's not for a good cause or anything. On occasion im still asked to accompany him down the stairs and onto the ave. to hail him a cab. Cuz he's wearing some HUGE Marie Antoinette-with a wig
u-dig....plus a pair of stilleto-s to-boot. It may be a hate crime but alotta cab drivers will not stop for a thing like that, know what im sayin. (The neighbor's just raising $ for AIDS; nasty virus that scared people shitless and died mid 80's___mid 90's style/doc/edu............u get the picture....let me make my point. Ding-dong, the nice/eccentric (look whose callin the kettle black) neighbor whispers "bedbugsuptown, could I talk to you a minute"right through the door. I let him in and he confesses to finding some mysterious bugs in his loft bed right underneath a red bandana. Like, more than a few. Tells me he's got some of 'em on tape. Yeah, scotch-tape! We go up to his crib and down the hall to the front room. He displays an assortment of bugginess- square buisness!
Of course everythings dead and I don't lose my cool cuz nothing looks anything likabedbug; but he already knew that--had spent time on line--though not @ this site and fyi--he's not got-a-bite.
Thank you Jesus.He's not concerned about what looks like carpet beetles and some other variously assorted tiny
things/with/wings. What's troubling my neighbor is the tiny very cranberry red little bugs that he found scurry-in round beneath the RED bandana! Pretty color but the thought of 90 or more of those cranberry circles buggin around yer bed sent me straight down to MY laptop. (I never entered the bedroom).Feeling somewhat safe, but maybe just a little violated--my apartment i mean-- I find a post from KQ AND Winston O'Buggy--clover mites--thank the Lord for this site--they do not bite but they can enter your apt. via tiny chinks in the Facade-O-Bricks and have a f*ckn' field day, which is exactly where they belong....in a freakn field. But I googled around and found that in the fall they have a habit of sunbathing on the brick facade of your friggin building n' getting in where they proceed to multiply like rabbits. AND they are particularly happy to hang-out in your bed/bath and beyond meaning my neighbors place is clover mite par-a-dise.
SHOULD i be CONCERNED......and not just for the neighbor. I mean c'mon guys, I helped him all i could, and im still just a newbite.
cilecto, AshamedandScratching, any body knows somthin bout bugs, this IS a shout-out. C'mon all you PRO's and En-tee-mos; copy back any oldtimers. Hey kids-- I WANNA HEAR YOU........b b b benny and the jets!
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Thu Oct 20 2011 23:23:42
#
Login to Send PM
is anybody here acually LAtin-O? I'm not. But my **$$$(-: damn bed bugs came from Puerto Rico!
-
your host
Joined: Mar '07
Posts: 14,081offline
Posted 1 year ago
Thu Oct 20 2011 23:54:03
#
Login to Send PM
bedbugsuptown - 29 minutes ago »
is anybody here acually LAtin-O? I'm not. But my **$$$(-: damn bed bugs came from Puerto Rico!Why do you think your bed bugs came from Puerto Rico?
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sat Oct 22 2011 2:53:40
#
Login to Send PM
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sat Oct 22 2011 5:56:30
#
Login to Send PM
Because my daughter's homecoming after a 4 day jaunt to Puerto Rico coincided with her first bites!
She only took a medium size Models sporting goods bag on the trip. She stayed in a HOTEL,(to my knowledge she did not steal a sheet or a towel). But she laid her bag in the hall-- at the edge of the front room for awhile before unpacking. We were 2 ships passing in the night and more than a few days lapsed before I had an opportunity to complain about putting her stuff away. If memory serves here, her bites began about the time she put her stuff away. I don't have a memory of her unpacking, I probably wasn't home when she did. When I think back on the series of events it seems the bag was put away when she started getting bites.This I remember to a tee. About a week after Puerto Rico she went to the beach on her day off. She came home and the kid was SO tan I said, "....your gonna' look like that old sun-friedy-lady in the movie 'Something About Mary' by the time your 39 ....what's wrong with U? Why don't you use the sunscreen for Ch*ist sake!" She took a shower and joined me on the couch where she noticed all these weirdly shaped-hive like things. I rubbed the zesty side of some lemon skins over these strange manifestations. Exhausted from the sun she went to the bottom bunk. She had to open the YOGA school she works at-- high end spot here in town- 6:30am. I was asleep in the top bunk when she left for work. That evening-- around 10pm I called her cell. She was spending the night in a yoga teacher's house, so she said. She sounded so small and scared when I asked her about her skin. Said she had all these welts/hives and that she itched like hell. I got scared and told her I'm going on the internet I'll call you back. I read about 2nd degree burns from the sun and I got scared. When I called her back I told her to go to a 24hr. Duane Reede with a pharmacist on duty and ask If she needed E.R. attention. Kid calls back sayin the pharmacist said no- she'd be ok-- told her to buy some over-the-counter CortAid or something. She slept home the next nite and kept on getting what I thought to be hives.....from the sun.
A few days (I'm guessing) and she's calling me at work to find a dermatologist for her. WE DON'T GO TO DOCTORS, she lost her Health First when she turned 21 last February. I felt terrible and got the name of a dermatologist--dust mites or bedbugs--45 diagnostic seconds later + $175.00....I'm starting to shut down. Didn't know what to think. THAT'S why I think the bag was put away; I'd yet to make this connection.
She used some crap the doctor prescribed and kept getting what appeared to her to be bites. I was in some kind of questioning denial. Then I called the 1st k9....one alert in the bedroom. Didn't like the rep telling me to bag my whole apartment and sounding like a used car salesman. My mother got me the number of a pco from her super. Called Phil and he came with HIS dog. NO ALERTS! I was not at all comfortable. I made a quick prayer of desperation: LORD, if I we have bedbugs, show me one. AND HE DID-- It was in the morning with the light on. I bagged a bug as it peaked it's head out of the crevice in a tusseled top sheet on the bottom bunk. A part of me felt kind of happy(???). At least I knew I wouldn't be looking to find an allergist. I called Phil who BELIEVED his dumb dog. By now I'd likely found this site--not positive about that--but I did KNOW that I'd bagged a BEDBUG cause I'd been looking at lotsa GOOGLE IMAGES of bites and bbs. Phil sent one of his posse round for a positive ID. Billy got on the cell....and this is a quote,"She bagged a LIVE ONE"
I can't be positive that she brought a couple-a-bugs back from Puerto Rico--but the chain of events look like ducks-in-a-row, to me anyway. Yes she does work in a yoga joint. And it's a thriving place with a cafe and boutique...........you likely know the place I'm talking about. But she was public about it.
I was too. NOBODY SHARED AN ITCH! Didn't feel any shame-- I felt people I worked with had the right to know. I realize all people don't think the same as I do, but I don't have a stigma problem. I lived through the f*king era of ... you know... Now THAT was fear & shame.So what do you think nobugsonme. My kid went AWOL and stayed w/friends for awhile; leased an apt. in Bklyn. and moved in Oct. 1st. She pretty much left with the clothes on her back. Over time I've PackTited and prepared several XXlg. Ziplock bags-full-of-clothes for her. Got a friend with a car to pick-up her stuff. She told her grandmother that she'd visit me but wouldn't sleep here! Grandma won't come here at all. The last money I spent was on an inspection. $3OO. went to KillerQueen's Clown....I think djames threads goin dead. Bobby said my bbs. were dead...........hope he's right cuz my bites manifest- at- a minimum. When I'm at the computer for this long I feel a little buggy. If you read this manifest pleez let me know what your thinking. Did you ever hear this old lyric from King Pleasure; it's a jazz-- thing.....and- you- can- go- now- if you- want to- were-through....
-
your host
Joined: Mar '07
Posts: 14,081offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sat Oct 22 2011 14:35:37
#
Login to Send PM
Hi bedbugsuptown,
I did read it all but I got a bit confused. You had an all-clear from Bobby from Boot-a-pest. You previously had treatment. That sounds good, right?
Beyond that, I am not sure what your questions were. So please clarify that if you can.
About the Puerto Rico comment: I understand now why you think they came from your daughter's vacation in PR.
I asked the question originally because I had forgotten that detail of your story. Remember that most people here have read so many stories about bed bugs, that they can't recall details. Some find that posting new updates to old threads helps.
Taken out of the context of the plot (daughter returned from vacation in Caribbean), your saying, "Is anyone here Latino? My bed bugs came from Puerto Rico," might seem to be implying things you didn't intend. For example, that Latinos have bed bugs, or bed bugs come from PR.
I don't think that was your intention, but it might be read that way out of context.
Plenty of people unfortunately have these kinds of opinions (that bed bugs come from "over there" -- another country, a poorer neighborhood, the immigrants living in the building, etc.), and some have expressed variations of them here and in the media. But the truth is there are Latino people in Caribbean islands (and Harlem) who are getting bed bugs from rich caucasian New Yorkers, too.
I think you probably know that, but I did not want to let the statement slip by without comment, in case others were reading it that way.
-
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Sat Oct 22 2011 17:08:47
#
Login to Send PM
hi nobugs,
Congrats on the THIs is dedicated to the one I love thread--your fan club! "Aw shucks", you so cute at X's.
Yes, your right about your 1st observation, I like to say I had 2.5 chemical treatments--the treatments were not your-typically fairly close-together-affairs. Hurricane Irene caused a delay of about a month
between the first 2. Maybe that was a good thing--not all that long anyway.Copy re: offending w/out intent. I get it--this wave of political correctness; I get that's it's a media trend or some such concoction. I give a lot of credit to the posters on your site......... they seem to be a highly articulate crowd. But like you posted, (para-phrase) a greater number of visitors to this site never post. It took me 2 mos. to post.....and I do get a-whole-lotta-joy doin it!
Really need to take a little brake from BBer.com and deal with the bags. My apartments still in disarray post Bobby's inspection and that's been more than a month. The website is such a lure when
deciding to hit it: pack-titing and purge/don't purge--what part of my life is over(regarding stuff).This is nothing new--comes with the territory; painter=too much stuff...creative spirit=same. My office manager has convinced me that I'm an *eneagram 4. Can't be bothered with spending X's on learning about the the enneagram--but I got diverted! am taking an enneagram test on line now!
Gotta clear my browser...........whatever that is. -
bedbugsuptown
senior member
Joined: Sep '11
Posts: 552offline
Posted 1 year ago
Mon Oct 24 2011 2:11:26
#
Login to Send PM
Lets hit it...............spend the night with the PactTite y'all doing the right thing
save money on laundry and buy some new bling cuz you lost some stuff to to the bugs that bring misery and and angst--takes you outta the ranks of stay-outs and fools; this will keep present and keep you sober and don't forget rover he ain't spreadin no bugs, if they do bite the dog they make they're exit . s route they take when they're feed-on you; usually stay by the bed so-their easy to kill and don't over think,they don't feed on their poo.Don't fear the nite- bit the bullet and sleep; so what if they crawl and suck little a lil'blood just read the forumFAQS and find the solution that will bring resolution to the problem infestatin that has Beem misleading, so out of bounds.caused some
sensation,,,your in good company so no need to scratch and plea--just get a safe plan after reading the FAQ's straight-the way to go with this problem that so rocks us an feeel on the fringe. Don't buy into that hocum, your not beyond the pale.....havin bedbugs and winnings one hell of tail.
Reply
You must log in to post.
