It all started sometime in May 2007...my daughter was experiencing mosquito bites...so I thought. I bought some "off" but still the bites persisted. I bought cortisone cream and still her scratching persisted. I started getting these mosquito bites, but they were like mutant mosquito bites. The bites were extremely itchy, welted and like my daughter experienced, the cortisone cream didn't touch them. I even spoke to the pharmacist to see if there was anything stronger than the over-the-counter 1% cortisone treatment. Nothing. I began keeping mental notes of the bites as they were increasing and I didn't spend much time outside...I noticed my cats were even scratching. I began my indefinite Internet research and looked up everything from mange, ringworm, scabies and insect bites. To my dismay I was able to identify photos of bites as being the same as my own, the culprit, bedbugs.
The following day I called up my apartment complex to have them nonchalantly inform me that "yeah, I probably do have bedbugs since the tenants above me have been receiving treatment for them for the last 5-6 weeks." They initially told me they would try to get someone out there in the next week or two. I was irate and would not accept this. They gave me self-bombs and had the exterminator out in 3 days. I had no idea what I was in for. The living nightmare I had just awoken to. Ignorance was, in part, bliss.
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