We slept fitfully yet hopefully all night knowing that it would be unlikely that we would be alerted to our 4am rapist. These suckers are so adept at their craft that it is highly unlikely that we would even know they were there, hence why it took so long to find them. I am still humiliated, hanging my head in utter shame due to it taking 6 months to find them. If only it were October, I could put on a mask and just explain that we are really into the holiday. Alas it is June and except for Father's Day there is no way to hide my shameful face so it has been determined that phone calls will have to do because I have officially declared a quarantine on our residence. In my humiliation I just can't compound it with even the slightest possibility that anyone come into our home and carry one of the little bastards trying to escape this hostile environment by hitchhiking home with them. Our home is officially the most hostile environment a bug could ever venture into.
I suppose that the neighborhood back yard get together to celebrate our newest neighbor moving in will be ok providing we don't get to close. Ok, get your mind under control woman! They don't jump, they don't fly and they are nocturnal beasts. The backyard picnic will be just fine, it is outside in the sunshine and everyone knows that vampires don't do sunshine.
Just breathe, breathe, breathe which is not easy seeing that we woke up with the little bastards scurrying away, trying not to get caught after having their way with us. They must have sensed how very much I enjoyed the popping of their relatives yesterday considering the speed in which they tried to get away. We are faster, its amazing how blurringly fast hands can move in a situation like this.
So time to get more serious. We are gonna need more Alcohol and some of it to kill the bugs. We are gonna need more bleach too. After a few calls to see who had it on sale we decided to visit Wal-mart where we picked up another 4 bottles of 91% Alcohol and 2 more gallons of bleach. The shame really set in when the sales clerk gave us a knowing, sad smile as she scanned the items. Perhaps I could turn Muslim for a while, cover my head, face, body, hands... no identifying tell tell signs of who I am just in case we should run into each other at a future time? Instead I just looked at her, tears in my eyes and said, "Dead Bugs Don't Bite". Cincinnati isn't very far away, just an hours drive and I'm certain we will not run into people from there any time soon. This is something to consider.
Even though Bed Bugs do not carry transmittable disease for some reason we have itched every since finding them. Perhaps it is a reaction to all of the DE? Perhaps it is a reaction to sleeping in heavily bleached items? I do not know but again it was to the computer to research how to control this. Neither of us experienced itching until this point so the solution to the riddle must be in everything we are using to eradicate the blood sucking, stealthy, demons in our bedroom. I had pimple like spots but thought they were from all the sweat of the recent days of enjoying working in the yard. They will die... every single one of them.
The solution to the itching was to bathe in a concoction of 1 cup bleach to 2 cups of Borax in a full tub of water and soak for 15 minutes fully submerged. The fully submerged part really sounded good about now and the only thing holding me back from the delightful thought of no longer having to deal with this was only over shadowed with the quest to win this war. No way were they going to win that easily so I laughed an evil laugh and lay in the tub looking at the ceiling waiting for the timer to ding. Those 15 minutes were quite delightful as I imagined the DE doing its work, killing them slowly just as they deserve.
By now you are probably asking yourself why we did not call in the experts, pay our money and then be done with it? Well, first of all, we like to know what chemicals are used in our home and that they are safe for our dogs as well as not going to set off some allergic reaction landing me in the hospital. Second our neighbors who use heat treatments said it took 3 times of their coming back to get them all and well, I just want 3 weeks of this hell then done never to return again. When this is over I will continue monitoring but we will NEVER wake up with anything just having their way with us, uninvited anyway, again, EVER!
We noticed that there was absolutely no sign of mice in our former private sanctuary upon research I learned that mice like to eat Bed Bugs so we decided that is possibly the reason we have not seen them anywhere else in the house. I decided the house mice could stay.
Going to the pantry, I pulled out every cottage cheese, sour cream or other disposable container I could find and headed back up stairs. Each and everything with legs went into a container with DE inside of it. That would stop the vampires from climbing up the legs of the bed to us. Even though it is not pretty, it is about results at this point rather than aesthetics. Tonight we would sleep bug free.
Five more loads of laundry. All bedding scalded, bleached and fried including pillows. I am thinking next months utility bill will cause as many tears as the blood sucking rapists. Nope, the price will be well worth it if this works. We are giving it 3 weeks of dedicated eradication procedures before calling in the experts. Three weeks though and then we will bring in atomic weapons if necessary but I will win. I WILL WIN.
Now I wonder if the severe allergic reaction was due to being allergic to their bites? No longer blaming the grass being mowed the hatred grew in volume and heat for our assailants. If it was the bites then my lumph nodes should soon begin shrinking to normal and the horrible pain from the pressure in my face will also go down. Until then, its more benedryll.
I hate these bugs, I hate any bug that decides to live within the confines of our home. Not sleeping well, I really HATE these things.
Muscles resenting so many trips up the stairs to apply more alcohol, wait for it to dissipate then steam is brutal. The dozen or so trips downstairs to the laundry room just as brutal but we can do this. We will do this and be a better, healthier, shinnier (the bath soak makes a persons skin shine), person for it all. I WILL WIN this war and I WILL BE BETTER because of it. The victory will be complete and utter undeniable annihilation and no rapist will ever dare come near me again, EVER...... my mind laughs an evil uncontrollable laugh. It is uncertain if the laughter is one of evil delight, lack of sleep or possibly, very possibly emotional instability at this point. No matter I WILL WIN.
After checking every inch of the sheets, considering sleeping with the lights on, checking to make certain the legs of the bed were firmly in the middle of a sea of DE, we turned off the lights to try to become bait once again.
6/19/2013
I suppose that the neighborhood back yard get together to celebrate our newest neighbor moving in will be ok providing we don't get to close. Ok, get your mind under control woman! They don't jump, they don't fly and they are nocturnal beasts. The backyard picnic will be just fine, it is outside in the sunshine and everyone knows that vampires don't do sunshine.
Just breathe, breathe, breathe which is not easy seeing that we woke up with the little bastards scurrying away, trying not to get caught after having their way with us. They must have sensed how very much I enjoyed the popping of their relatives yesterday considering the speed in which they tried to get away. We are faster, its amazing how blurringly fast hands can move in a situation like this.
So time to get more serious. We are gonna need more Alcohol and some of it to kill the bugs. We are gonna need more bleach too. After a few calls to see who had it on sale we decided to visit Wal-mart where we picked up another 4 bottles of 91% Alcohol and 2 more gallons of bleach. The shame really set in when the sales clerk gave us a knowing, sad smile as she scanned the items. Perhaps I could turn Muslim for a while, cover my head, face, body, hands... no identifying tell tell signs of who I am just in case we should run into each other at a future time? Instead I just looked at her, tears in my eyes and said, "Dead Bugs Don't Bite". Cincinnati isn't very far away, just an hours drive and I'm certain we will not run into people from there any time soon. This is something to consider.
Even though Bed Bugs do not carry transmittable disease for some reason we have itched every since finding them. Perhaps it is a reaction to all of the DE? Perhaps it is a reaction to sleeping in heavily bleached items? I do not know but again it was to the computer to research how to control this. Neither of us experienced itching until this point so the solution to the riddle must be in everything we are using to eradicate the blood sucking, stealthy, demons in our bedroom. I had pimple like spots but thought they were from all the sweat of the recent days of enjoying working in the yard. They will die... every single one of them.
The solution to the itching was to bathe in a concoction of 1 cup bleach to 2 cups of Borax in a full tub of water and soak for 15 minutes fully submerged. The fully submerged part really sounded good about now and the only thing holding me back from the delightful thought of no longer having to deal with this was only over shadowed with the quest to win this war. No way were they going to win that easily so I laughed an evil laugh and lay in the tub looking at the ceiling waiting for the timer to ding. Those 15 minutes were quite delightful as I imagined the DE doing its work, killing them slowly just as they deserve.
By now you are probably asking yourself why we did not call in the experts, pay our money and then be done with it? Well, first of all, we like to know what chemicals are used in our home and that they are safe for our dogs as well as not going to set off some allergic reaction landing me in the hospital. Second our neighbors who use heat treatments said it took 3 times of their coming back to get them all and well, I just want 3 weeks of this hell then done never to return again. When this is over I will continue monitoring but we will NEVER wake up with anything just having their way with us, uninvited anyway, again, EVER!
We noticed that there was absolutely no sign of mice in our former private sanctuary upon research I learned that mice like to eat Bed Bugs so we decided that is possibly the reason we have not seen them anywhere else in the house. I decided the house mice could stay.
Going to the pantry, I pulled out every cottage cheese, sour cream or other disposable container I could find and headed back up stairs. Each and everything with legs went into a container with DE inside of it. That would stop the vampires from climbing up the legs of the bed to us. Even though it is not pretty, it is about results at this point rather than aesthetics. Tonight we would sleep bug free.
Five more loads of laundry. All bedding scalded, bleached and fried including pillows. I am thinking next months utility bill will cause as many tears as the blood sucking rapists. Nope, the price will be well worth it if this works. We are giving it 3 weeks of dedicated eradication procedures before calling in the experts. Three weeks though and then we will bring in atomic weapons if necessary but I will win. I WILL WIN.
Now I wonder if the severe allergic reaction was due to being allergic to their bites? No longer blaming the grass being mowed the hatred grew in volume and heat for our assailants. If it was the bites then my lumph nodes should soon begin shrinking to normal and the horrible pain from the pressure in my face will also go down. Until then, its more benedryll.
I hate these bugs, I hate any bug that decides to live within the confines of our home. Not sleeping well, I really HATE these things.
Muscles resenting so many trips up the stairs to apply more alcohol, wait for it to dissipate then steam is brutal. The dozen or so trips downstairs to the laundry room just as brutal but we can do this. We will do this and be a better, healthier, shinnier (the bath soak makes a persons skin shine), person for it all. I WILL WIN this war and I WILL BE BETTER because of it. The victory will be complete and utter undeniable annihilation and no rapist will ever dare come near me again, EVER...... my mind laughs an evil uncontrollable laugh. It is uncertain if the laughter is one of evil delight, lack of sleep or possibly, very possibly emotional instability at this point. No matter I WILL WIN.
After checking every inch of the sheets, considering sleeping with the lights on, checking to make certain the legs of the bed were firmly in the middle of a sea of DE, we turned off the lights to try to become bait once again.
6/19/2013
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