Bed Bugs
****. Them.
Seriously.
In August of last year, at around 9pm, I saw something crawling to the corner of our headboard. I squished it and it was all bloody. Confused, I called Terminix.
We had bed bugs.
I would not wish these upon my worst enemy. They can't be killed with any household pesticide. So Terminix comes in, we sign a contract with them, they say it will take two or three visits to make sure they are gone.
TWENTY-SEVEN VISITS LATER...... Terminix has sent us a refund giving up. They are not really experts on bed bugs and don't know how to kill them properly. They've taken apart our bed, our furniture, everything, but its likely that they are in our walls, in cracks within our bedroom and they are really smart bugs. Two months ago they declared us "bed bug free", but, skeptical, we put sticky pads under our bed and sure enough, we are starting to see adult bed bugs on the pads. Reading more about them, when they sense a treatment somewhere they will spread somewhere else. To, say, my sons room. Kill me now.
So, our only real option at this point? Hire someone for $1600 to come heat our house up to 140 degrees for 3 hours. Heat is pretty much the only way to guarantee that all of them in the house are killed.
We have no idea how we got them but I believe they maybe came in our bed we bought from Room Store in Dallas (that has since gone out of business). The thing about bed bugs is that it often will take until they really mutliply to get noticed, hence once we were seeing them they had really spread throughout our room.
Let me tell you how much fun it is to know every time we sleep we may have bugs eating us. Its amazing. Luckily my wife and I have had almost zero reaction to them, so its not like we're itching from bites, but we can definitely see the discoloration on our skin.
Anyway, its time to nuke the bastards. But good lord talk about the most frustrating bug on the planet.
I didn't find a thread on them so I thought I'd use this opportunity to rant about them and answer questions about them, and hopefully find someone out there who has actually won a battle against them.
