Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Bugs!!!!

It is on the radio and TV everywhere, bed bugs. They manifest more and more hotels but also houses in the US. And now, I found one in my own bed. Pfffff. Baaaaah. Buuuh. IIiiieeek. After I woke up with three bites at my neck (it was three so I knew it wasn't a Vampire) I decided to actually check my bed linen before I went to sleep. And there just beneath my pillow, right where I lay down my pretty face, a bed bug, buuuh! It was crawling for its life, but I was faster, smashhh! And to really give it a blast, I flushed it down the toilet, wooshhhh!

Now I left work early and after intensive vacuuming and seven laundry machines later, laundering everything that was even close to my bed (not too difficult in a 20 m2 room) I am finally ready for the nasty stuff, bed bug spray. I did not find any other bugs or their feces (which looks a lot like the black sand from the beach, so I decided to be an optimist) and so I am hopeful that I probably only had one, under the best circumstances, male bug. But who knows, I guess I will only find out within the next months. It feels funny, that I will be the guinea pig in this little experiment and the readout is the number of bites I get. I really hope not to get more bites, because they are really painful. And although I put it out here, it is sooooooooo embarassing! 

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7 comments:

  1. RowdyApril 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM

    remind me not to get in your bed. hhahaha. i'm glad you are taking steps to kill them. it would be such an annoying thing to deal with.

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  2. UnknownApril 20, 2011 at 9:02 AM

    You can kill them in the freezer, or in the dryer. I hate to say it, but you're probably not free of them yet.

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  3. Sylvia NeumannApril 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    well I put almost everything in the dryer that I have, guess I just have to keep doing it for the next months to come. my freezer is really small and you have to keep it there for days. So the dryer is faster...

    thanks for the advice

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  4. TimApril 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM

    Cat also has a bed bug who bites her.. :)

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  5. Sylvia NeumannApril 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM

    well, hope she doesn't get rid of that one:)

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  6. CaTApril 20, 2011 at 11:26 AM

    maybe you got them from victoria's secret? i read once that they had bed bugs there!!
    when we got our couch for free from somewhere, the people we were renting the apartment from said; aaahh, we dont want to scare you, but you know, bed bugs... the days after i thought they were everywhere.. but luckily they werent..
    ugh, what a boring story i wrote here!

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  7. María Cecilia Calzada de NeumannJune 27, 2011 at 12:57 PM

    Hi Sylvie, I was reading you again: Bed bugs. I really enjoyed it and also read it loudly to Micha. ;) ... I was laughing also because of the noises you make and that it hurts and that it is embarassing. So, here in Germany I cannot say that it was a bed bug. ;)
    A hug!! M.-

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