One of my sons lives in Massachusetts. Last month he was home for the weekend, and this weekend he was back for a visit. He was talking with my other son, who still lives at home. He casually mentioned how their apartment building in Mass. had to be fumigated because of bed bugs. It would have been nice if he had mentioned that fact to us a month ago, because it seems like he might have brought a few of the critters home with him to Monmouth.

The son that lives with us had been having trouble sleeping and had recently been bitten and had quite a few marks on his body. It turns out, the bed bugs really liked him. We were lucky, because our problem seems to have been confined to just his room. (Let's hope so!)

We bug bombed the whole house and have bought special mattress and pillow covers and it looks like we might have solved the problem, a few hundred bucks later. We were actually pretty lucky.

I was hesitant to share the story, because, it's a bit embarrassing. I thought, "Will people think we're dirty?" Hey, it's my life. There's really nothing we could have done to prevent it. My other son, by the way, has been banned from our house. Just kidding!

Because of our incident, this story about a movie theater infestation, that I came across today, really hit home. Bed bugs are just nasty!

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