Elvis,
You are FUNNY! Thank you for making me laugh at something that rather terrifies me--it's great to laugh in the face of fear. Those non-waking-up experiences have made me wonder if that is what alzheimer's might feel a little like... Hopefully, I and everyone on this forum will never have to find out...

Bedbugs are just unbelievable. If I start talking about them, I won't be able to stop, so I won't. It's just that we've been through a real ordeal with them and are reliving it currently again. Someday I'll write it all up but right now, we're just hangin in there. But an excellent resource all about bedbugs has sprung up over the past few years: it's bedbugger.com and it's an essential resource for anyone currently battling bedbugs or anyone who's just interested in learnign more about them. Bedbugs, alas, are a growing international epidemic because a) they are very very resistant to current insecticides (the only thing that effectively kills them is DDT which was (rightfully) banned in the 50s when it was found to be a carcinogen) and b) more people traveling than ever before are unwittingly spreading them (bedbugs are notorious stowaways).

Sadly, and as usual it's the most disadavanatged members fo society who are going to/already are suffering the most from this plague: old people and homeless/quasi-homeless people and low-income people and sick people... (Not that we're rich, quite the contrary--I'm going into debt just to have this one filling removed, but still we had enough in our (now depeletd) bank account to deal withthe tremendous expense of the bedbugs. So we are actually among the very lucky ones, really.)


OP