June 1st til now June 21 2010.
So we moved into our new place. Its perfect here. besides the fact that we are sleeping on air mattresses. Our new place is in a "woodsy" area, so we are noticing alot of bugs we would have never noticed before. for petes sake. i pick out a pototo bug on the side walk from 10 ft away. I feel like a crack fiend. you know how they walk and are constantly picking things off the floor thinking its their drugs.... yea well that what me and my sister do expect its to look to see if its a bed bug. ohh the joys of life after you have expierenced bed bugs. i dont think it will ever be the same again. So i went to bedbugger.com and was reading some of the post there (i wish i couldve post but i would never get a confirmation email THANK YOUUU PEOPLE!! I REALLY WANTED SUPPORT, SO THATS WHY IM MAKING MY OWN BLOG!!!) this guy said he got rid of bed bugs by using ortho home defense max even though it didnt list bed bugs on the label. after researching a bunch of other "post-ees" claimed too alos. I bought taht and sprayed once or twice the first week. we werent being bit, thats all i cared about, and being lazy after working and going to school i stopped spraying. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 weeks later
i cannot sleep. actually i havent been able to sleep since i find out. no matter where i go i feel things crawling on me. My boyfriend brian checked his mattress and box spring and he said there was nothing, so did his brother. then i noticed i was getting tiny itchy bumps. nothing compared to what they were before. not incredibly itchy, but what normal itchy is. again. theres the YOUR CRAZY NIKKI comments from my boyfriend. the "i need to let it go and move on". but what are these bites????? my sister texted me early one morning saying seh found a bug in her car, she wasnt sure if it was a bed bug or not. she ran and did her jump hop and scream and came back and it was gone. was it a bed bug?? we did transport our dirty washables in the cars before we got to teh laundry mat??? just another doubt in my head. is this nightmare going to end??? it couldnt have been that easy to get rid of them after i read all about them and heard the way they follow people. are these little tiny bumps just bug bites... not bed bug bites??? so its june 22 2010 at 2am. i cannot sleep. and i wont be able to sleep. I read somewhere they come out to eat between 3 and 5 am. tricky bastards. thats when we are in our deepest sleep. well let me get to teh bottom of this. at 10pm tonight while laying on my airmattress playing on my laptop with my boyfriend next to me sleeping for work and my sister in her room sleeping for work a bug started crawling across the screen. I FREAKED!!! esp bc i have these little bites on me. i wake brian up. i tell him. he looks at it and tells me thats not a bed bug. it sure looks like one!!! its not flat like it, and it had more of an oblong shape but what the hell else would it be??? i make him watch guard with a peice of paper in case it moved i wanted him to squish it. i ran to my sisters room, woke her up out of a dead sleep and brought her in to examine my evidence. she claimed its not one either. brian squashed it like that after him and my sister laugh at me and complain about me waking them up when they have work in the morning. could it be a bed bug??? so there i was searching google. looking for possible answers. nothing. man i wish i woulda grabed a cup to trap the bug and spray it and preserve it to search the bug on the computer. stupid me again. but i have NEVER NEVER seen a bed bug on me or near me, let alone crawling across my computer screen. ive only seen them in my sisters room prior to moving whhen we lifted up her mattress that we thrown away. I need help. I need support. Im about to check myself into the crazy hospital for a vaca to get away, at least they dont have bed bugs in there. so heres to another sleepless night. tomorrow im going to buy more bug spray and some DE to spread all around this brand new apartment with brand new flooring/carpeting. What i wouldnt do to have my careless 21 year old life back =[ please share your expirences/thoughts. help me.
Monday, June 21, 2010
I need to get it off my chest.
Monday May 31, 2010.
I go into work. I need to tell someone what is going on in my life. If not i might blow my freakin brains out. I cant deal with this. I tell teh girls at work with in my department. they are very supportive. I told them how embarrassed i was. they said its nothing to be embarassed about, it could happen to anyone. It doesnt mean im dirty or anything like that. but what do they really think. Are they thinking OMG what if she gave me them??? Stressful day. How am i supposed to work when i have all of this going on in my life. and im moving tomorrow???
I go home to my sister only to break down. i have a complete mental breakdown. Crying so hard taht I cannot breathe. My sister gets my aunt on the phone, who is basically my mother figure, since my mother wasnt there much, and she calms me down. I have no money for the uhaul. My purse was stolen. I just want to say Thank you Aunt Michelle and Uncle Scott. They gave me and my sister each 150. I feel bad taking the money, but i need it right now. I have no gas, no money for the uhaul, and no idea on what i am going to do. They refuse and refuse to let us pay them back. thats what family is for.
Tuesday June 1st 2010.
MOVING DAY
not much to say expect we moved. as everything was leaving teh house to be loaded on the uhaul, we sprayed it one more time with the spray. After everything was on, we went and parked in and set off 3 bed bug bombs in the back. LORD PLEASEEEE MAKE THIS WORK!!!
As we carried things into teh house, we did it box by box. we would carry a box in, unpack it. make sure nothing was in it, put it where it belonged, then took the empty box out and brought another in. I kept some of my stuff from my room. Picture frames, i opened them sprayed them closed them spray them, nothing there, but it in a garbage bag and knotted them up. I hope we did this. I hope this worked.
I go into work. I need to tell someone what is going on in my life. If not i might blow my freakin brains out. I cant deal with this. I tell teh girls at work with in my department. they are very supportive. I told them how embarrassed i was. they said its nothing to be embarassed about, it could happen to anyone. It doesnt mean im dirty or anything like that. but what do they really think. Are they thinking OMG what if she gave me them??? Stressful day. How am i supposed to work when i have all of this going on in my life. and im moving tomorrow???
I go home to my sister only to break down. i have a complete mental breakdown. Crying so hard taht I cannot breathe. My sister gets my aunt on the phone, who is basically my mother figure, since my mother wasnt there much, and she calms me down. I have no money for the uhaul. My purse was stolen. I just want to say Thank you Aunt Michelle and Uncle Scott. They gave me and my sister each 150. I feel bad taking the money, but i need it right now. I have no gas, no money for the uhaul, and no idea on what i am going to do. They refuse and refuse to let us pay them back. thats what family is for.
Tuesday June 1st 2010.
MOVING DAY
not much to say expect we moved. as everything was leaving teh house to be loaded on the uhaul, we sprayed it one more time with the spray. After everything was on, we went and parked in and set off 3 bed bug bombs in the back. LORD PLEASEEEE MAKE THIS WORK!!!
As we carried things into teh house, we did it box by box. we would carry a box in, unpack it. make sure nothing was in it, put it where it belonged, then took the empty box out and brought another in. I kept some of my stuff from my room. Picture frames, i opened them sprayed them closed them spray them, nothing there, but it in a garbage bag and knotted them up. I hope we did this. I hope this worked.
Wake me up now... im ready for my life to go one.
Sunday May 30 2010... what a great memorial day weekend. Just think, while you guys were out there grilling, boating, hanging out with family, drinking a beer... i was dealing with this mess. GO ME... not.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! god 3 hours of sleep and ive never jumped so high out of my sleep before. My sister answers the door. Its the police they found my purse. Man now theyre trying to turn it on me bc i didnt report it stolen. I want to tell him the hell we are going through with these bed bugs. That the bed bugs were more important than reporting my purse at that moment. but its embarassing. I already know what they will say. OMG THEYRE SO DIRTY, THEY HAVE BEDBUGS! Im so glad i have my boyfriend! I get to vent to him about everything, but he doesnt understand. he didnt have to throw away all of his stuff. he never even had to expierence how itchy the damn things were bc HE NEVER GOT ONE BITE!!! Even after basically staying over my hosue everynight. Then i think OGOD! could you imagine if he took it home to his moms house. The police tell me they are going to fingerprint my purse. OK keep me posted. I call Brian, my boyfriends, mother jsut to let her know whats going on. She comforts me and tells me everything will be okay. She always knows how to do that. So the day continues. More spraying. More unpacking and repacking. Threw away both of our brand new bedroom sets. Its so freaking hard!!! and I have to work tomorrow. So we continue spraying and cleaning. My boyfriend brings a pizza and drinks down for me and my sister and then convinces me to come to his house to get a good nights sleep for work in teh a.m. It didnt take long to think about sleeping in a warm bed, no fear of something sucking your blood. so i took him up on the offer. As soon as i got to his house I went straight into the shower and took a relaxing shower and put on some of my very dry and hot clean clothes from the one bag that we packed that had our clothes for a week in it. It feels good. I go to lay down, but then my mind races. I think i feel things crawling on me?? Is it just in my head. I keep looking where its itchy but i see nothing. I end up falling asleep imagining what if we didnt find them until tues when we moved. i guess at least we found them now so we could do what we are doing. I dont have much hope. everyone is saying get an exterminator that i talk to on the computer. but i cant afford it. trust me, i wish i could get that heating extermination thing, were they run ducts of hot air into your house to heat it past 130 to kill all bed bugs, nymphs and eggs. but as you guys have figured out if you read all my post. my life is never easy. its always the hard way.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! god 3 hours of sleep and ive never jumped so high out of my sleep before. My sister answers the door. Its the police they found my purse. Man now theyre trying to turn it on me bc i didnt report it stolen. I want to tell him the hell we are going through with these bed bugs. That the bed bugs were more important than reporting my purse at that moment. but its embarassing. I already know what they will say. OMG THEYRE SO DIRTY, THEY HAVE BEDBUGS! Im so glad i have my boyfriend! I get to vent to him about everything, but he doesnt understand. he didnt have to throw away all of his stuff. he never even had to expierence how itchy the damn things were bc HE NEVER GOT ONE BITE!!! Even after basically staying over my hosue everynight. Then i think OGOD! could you imagine if he took it home to his moms house. The police tell me they are going to fingerprint my purse. OK keep me posted. I call Brian, my boyfriends, mother jsut to let her know whats going on. She comforts me and tells me everything will be okay. She always knows how to do that. So the day continues. More spraying. More unpacking and repacking. Threw away both of our brand new bedroom sets. Its so freaking hard!!! and I have to work tomorrow. So we continue spraying and cleaning. My boyfriend brings a pizza and drinks down for me and my sister and then convinces me to come to his house to get a good nights sleep for work in teh a.m. It didnt take long to think about sleeping in a warm bed, no fear of something sucking your blood. so i took him up on the offer. As soon as i got to his house I went straight into the shower and took a relaxing shower and put on some of my very dry and hot clean clothes from the one bag that we packed that had our clothes for a week in it. It feels good. I go to lay down, but then my mind races. I think i feel things crawling on me?? Is it just in my head. I keep looking where its itchy but i see nothing. I end up falling asleep imagining what if we didnt find them until tues when we moved. i guess at least we found them now so we could do what we are doing. I dont have much hope. everyone is saying get an exterminator that i talk to on the computer. but i cant afford it. trust me, i wish i could get that heating extermination thing, were they run ducts of hot air into your house to heat it past 130 to kill all bed bugs, nymphs and eggs. but as you guys have figured out if you read all my post. my life is never easy. its always the hard way.
the nightmare continues.
Saturday May 25th 2010
After waking up with barely any sleep, im exhausted to say teh least. But we need to find a way to battle these little buggers. Sarah my sister, calls teh landlord and tells him about it. He claimed he has never heard of bedbugs which i find is a lie and says he will exterminate the apartment after we move on tues. My research then says We shouldnt move for at least a month after your bed bug free. what are we to do??? we have to move. We head to home depot and try to find bed bug killer. WE DID!! We bought a bunch of gallons of that HOT SHOTT bed bug spray and also foggers. another $50 worht of stuff we cant afford. I read taht foggers are bad bc they make the bed bugs run to other apartments only to infest those and then return. Did i do that when i set off those flea foggerS??? We figured were going to douse EVERYTHING, with this spray then while our remaining stuff is in teh uhaul we will shut the door and set off the 3 foggers. were can they run? they are sealed in. We also stopped at kmart and bought those XXL zip lock bags so we can put our clean washed clothes and such in them, since they die at 115 degrees.
Go home. inspect the living room furniture. nothing. Dining room furniture nothing. Kitchen... again nothing. We decide we are going to just pitch our mattresses. Its not worth taking the risk of bring them. we will just have to save up to get more once we are in and bed bug free and back to normal life.so we spray every inch of the furniture and take off the net type backing from under the couch and loveseatt, again nothing there, so we soak that in the spray. spray the carpet, the baseboards, every nook and cranny. Opened boxes and took things out and sprayed them. Sprayed the outside of the boxes themselves. My sister stored all of her photos in shoe boxes under her bed. Our house caught fire and burnt to the ground when we were younger so could you imagine how hard it was for her to pitch all of these pictures?? the ones you can never replace. The ones we did manage to save from the first like our baby pictures??? its pretty freaking hard. so after all of this its now 11pm at night. we take all of our washable items and bag them up, load them in the cars and head to the laundrymat. Half way there my sister calls me and said hey, lets take those mattresses and bo springs to the dumpster now so we turn around and head back home. Stupid Stupid me. I took all the money out of my bank account. there was 1 something left so i could pay for the uhaul and deal with washing these 30 bags of clothes, towels, coats, bedshit. well just another bump in the road. I left my black purse in my car under my passenger seat. After taking the mattress and boxsprings out and returning to my car for a much needed cigerette, it hit me. my purse and wallet were stolen!!!!!! wow, no offense, but way to fuck me over God, if you are up there!!!! What am i to do? we have to move on, there are bigger fish to fry, specifically named bed bugs. I immediately called to shut off my phone and my debit cards. I figured ill call the police to make a report later bc if not it will only be another 1hr waiting around, making police reports and such. We head to the laundrymat. So we head there with 30 bags of washables. and walk out with 8 XXl zip lock bags. We threw everything away. Again, the house fire comes back into my mind. It was so hard starting from scratch, so I hold onto everything i own with pride only to end up thrwoing them into a dumpster... leather coats, our comfortors ( mine was a brand new 300 dollar set) a bunch of clothes. Lord this is just getting worst. We didtn get home til 7am. Im exhausted Shes exhausted so we leave our newly bed bug free washables in the ziplock baggies in my car, head upstairs and fall onto the couch and try to fall asleep. Wake up call its 10 am sunday and there is pounding at my door
After waking up with barely any sleep, im exhausted to say teh least. But we need to find a way to battle these little buggers. Sarah my sister, calls teh landlord and tells him about it. He claimed he has never heard of bedbugs which i find is a lie and says he will exterminate the apartment after we move on tues. My research then says We shouldnt move for at least a month after your bed bug free. what are we to do??? we have to move. We head to home depot and try to find bed bug killer. WE DID!! We bought a bunch of gallons of that HOT SHOTT bed bug spray and also foggers. another $50 worht of stuff we cant afford. I read taht foggers are bad bc they make the bed bugs run to other apartments only to infest those and then return. Did i do that when i set off those flea foggerS??? We figured were going to douse EVERYTHING, with this spray then while our remaining stuff is in teh uhaul we will shut the door and set off the 3 foggers. were can they run? they are sealed in. We also stopped at kmart and bought those XXL zip lock bags so we can put our clean washed clothes and such in them, since they die at 115 degrees.
Go home. inspect the living room furniture. nothing. Dining room furniture nothing. Kitchen... again nothing. We decide we are going to just pitch our mattresses. Its not worth taking the risk of bring them. we will just have to save up to get more once we are in and bed bug free and back to normal life.so we spray every inch of the furniture and take off the net type backing from under the couch and loveseatt, again nothing there, so we soak that in the spray. spray the carpet, the baseboards, every nook and cranny. Opened boxes and took things out and sprayed them. Sprayed the outside of the boxes themselves. My sister stored all of her photos in shoe boxes under her bed. Our house caught fire and burnt to the ground when we were younger so could you imagine how hard it was for her to pitch all of these pictures?? the ones you can never replace. The ones we did manage to save from the first like our baby pictures??? its pretty freaking hard. so after all of this its now 11pm at night. we take all of our washable items and bag them up, load them in the cars and head to the laundrymat. Half way there my sister calls me and said hey, lets take those mattresses and bo springs to the dumpster now so we turn around and head back home. Stupid Stupid me. I took all the money out of my bank account. there was 1 something left so i could pay for the uhaul and deal with washing these 30 bags of clothes, towels, coats, bedshit. well just another bump in the road. I left my black purse in my car under my passenger seat. After taking the mattress and boxsprings out and returning to my car for a much needed cigerette, it hit me. my purse and wallet were stolen!!!!!! wow, no offense, but way to fuck me over God, if you are up there!!!! What am i to do? we have to move on, there are bigger fish to fry, specifically named bed bugs. I immediately called to shut off my phone and my debit cards. I figured ill call the police to make a report later bc if not it will only be another 1hr waiting around, making police reports and such. We head to the laundrymat. So we head there with 30 bags of washables. and walk out with 8 XXl zip lock bags. We threw everything away. Again, the house fire comes back into my mind. It was so hard starting from scratch, so I hold onto everything i own with pride only to end up thrwoing them into a dumpster... leather coats, our comfortors ( mine was a brand new 300 dollar set) a bunch of clothes. Lord this is just getting worst. We didtn get home til 7am. Im exhausted Shes exhausted so we leave our newly bed bug free washables in the ziplock baggies in my car, head upstairs and fall onto the couch and try to fall asleep. Wake up call its 10 am sunday and there is pounding at my door
first blog. update you on what happend
Sorry about my grammer and/or spelling. Im trying to write this as fast as i can bc i want some kind of support/help/answers.
So, i moved out of my boyfriends house and into my sisters apartment in march of 2010. Its a crappy 16 unit apartment building. We live on the top floor, each floor has 4 apts. We only have one neighbor. My sister had to travel to syracuse ny for her job. When she came home she had this ring around her neck like an allergic reaction to fake jewlery. A month passes. Our neighbor across the hall moves out and into a lower floor apt. I start getting these bites. I show the nurses i work with and they tell me it has to be flea bites bc i have a cat. But i put advantage flea stuff on my cat. I brush off their flea theory. My sister thinks Im crazy, and my boyfriend does also. They say Im overreacting over a few bites, but they dont understand how itchy these things are. So itchy to the point i itch them open and make them bleed. We find a beautiful, i mean BEAUTIFUL, just built 2 bedroom apartment. Higher price, but worth getting out of the area. Sign the lease and are to move June 1, 2010. Then my sister then started getting bites. Way to call me the crazy one right?? I have no insurance, she does. So she goes to her doctor on tues may 25,2010. Her doctor tells her its scabies. So $40 later and a tiny tube of permithrin cream, we wash our bed sheets and lather up. But that wasnt the end of it. We kept getting bites. Let me mind you we are in our early 20's. That 40 dollar cream alone set us back with having coming up with 1600 for the rent and security deposit on the new place with our paychecks for the month. So anyways, we kept getting bites. So i thought, maybe my cat does have fleas. $70 later with flea bombs, flea spray and another box of advantage I decide to take action against the fleas right after work on friday may 28,2010. Spray everything, take my cat to my boyfriends, and bombed the apartment. My sister works 2 jobs. One 9-5 monday- fri and a weekend job, so fridays she goes from one job straight to the next. The apartment was aired out just in time for when she got home at 12am sat morning. We decide to take the bedsheets and comforters to the laundrymat. On our way out the door, my sister mentions how we forgot the dust ruffle that goes in between the mattress and box springs. Thats when my world came to a halt. We picked up the mattress and went to grab the dust raffle when BAM. my sister (SARAH) starts freaking out! You know, the hop jump and screaming when you see a bug?? I run to the kitchen grab a cup and let it crawl into it then doused it in my flea spray. thats when sarah says the word. BED BUGS. We looked around the edges of her mattress and found one area of black dots and another bed bug. we didnt know what to do. we dropped the mattress and ran into my room and looked at my mattress. nothing. why was there nothing in my room when i was getting bit up more than she was????? So after that stress, and not knowing what to do, we decide to go down the street to the bar to grab a beer on a bed bug free stool and discuss our options with our little amount of money due to treating something else. We finish our one beer and head to walmart at now 2 am. we buy 2 mattress covers $40 total. didnt have enough to buy 4 so the box springs could get one alos. We head back to the apt and shove the mattresses in the covers and then sit in the living room searching for bed bug information on the computer as well as exterminators. Thank God they have 1800 numbers. Too bad we found out the exterminator would cost US about 100o for our apartment and state regulations would make it manditory that ALL 16 apartments to be exterminated!!!! and on top of that we searched whose responsibility, landlord or tenant and found out depending on the state, we would be responsible for the bill. and thats just one treatment. its then about 5 am on sat may 29. we are to move in 3 days, which means we have to unpack all of our boxes. Oh joy. The computer said to still sleep in your bed, but HOW can I let them crawl on me??? We resort to the loveseat and couch. Wake up at 9am. What a measly 4 hours sleep.
So, i moved out of my boyfriends house and into my sisters apartment in march of 2010. Its a crappy 16 unit apartment building. We live on the top floor, each floor has 4 apts. We only have one neighbor. My sister had to travel to syracuse ny for her job. When she came home she had this ring around her neck like an allergic reaction to fake jewlery. A month passes. Our neighbor across the hall moves out and into a lower floor apt. I start getting these bites. I show the nurses i work with and they tell me it has to be flea bites bc i have a cat. But i put advantage flea stuff on my cat. I brush off their flea theory. My sister thinks Im crazy, and my boyfriend does also. They say Im overreacting over a few bites, but they dont understand how itchy these things are. So itchy to the point i itch them open and make them bleed. We find a beautiful, i mean BEAUTIFUL, just built 2 bedroom apartment. Higher price, but worth getting out of the area. Sign the lease and are to move June 1, 2010. Then my sister then started getting bites. Way to call me the crazy one right?? I have no insurance, she does. So she goes to her doctor on tues may 25,2010. Her doctor tells her its scabies. So $40 later and a tiny tube of permithrin cream, we wash our bed sheets and lather up. But that wasnt the end of it. We kept getting bites. Let me mind you we are in our early 20's. That 40 dollar cream alone set us back with having coming up with 1600 for the rent and security deposit on the new place with our paychecks for the month. So anyways, we kept getting bites. So i thought, maybe my cat does have fleas. $70 later with flea bombs, flea spray and another box of advantage I decide to take action against the fleas right after work on friday may 28,2010. Spray everything, take my cat to my boyfriends, and bombed the apartment. My sister works 2 jobs. One 9-5 monday- fri and a weekend job, so fridays she goes from one job straight to the next. The apartment was aired out just in time for when she got home at 12am sat morning. We decide to take the bedsheets and comforters to the laundrymat. On our way out the door, my sister mentions how we forgot the dust ruffle that goes in between the mattress and box springs. Thats when my world came to a halt. We picked up the mattress and went to grab the dust raffle when BAM. my sister (SARAH) starts freaking out! You know, the hop jump and screaming when you see a bug?? I run to the kitchen grab a cup and let it crawl into it then doused it in my flea spray. thats when sarah says the word. BED BUGS. We looked around the edges of her mattress and found one area of black dots and another bed bug. we didnt know what to do. we dropped the mattress and ran into my room and looked at my mattress. nothing. why was there nothing in my room when i was getting bit up more than she was????? So after that stress, and not knowing what to do, we decide to go down the street to the bar to grab a beer on a bed bug free stool and discuss our options with our little amount of money due to treating something else. We finish our one beer and head to walmart at now 2 am. we buy 2 mattress covers $40 total. didnt have enough to buy 4 so the box springs could get one alos. We head back to the apt and shove the mattresses in the covers and then sit in the living room searching for bed bug information on the computer as well as exterminators. Thank God they have 1800 numbers. Too bad we found out the exterminator would cost US about 100o for our apartment and state regulations would make it manditory that ALL 16 apartments to be exterminated!!!! and on top of that we searched whose responsibility, landlord or tenant and found out depending on the state, we would be responsible for the bill. and thats just one treatment. its then about 5 am on sat may 29. we are to move in 3 days, which means we have to unpack all of our boxes. Oh joy. The computer said to still sleep in your bed, but HOW can I let them crawl on me??? We resort to the loveseat and couch. Wake up at 9am. What a measly 4 hours sleep.
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