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Friday, November 20, 2009

What a waste of money or At least my friends won't shun me

Last Wednesday I woke up with two bumps on my left cheek (and it wasn't acne). On Thursday I woke up with three more bumps on my right cheek. I was perplexed. Friday there were some bumps underneath my chin. They started itching too. I started thinking I had bugs. I'd gotten fleas once when camping, but it had never been on my face. When I woke up Saturday with even more bumps, I started freaking out. After reading about it online, I was convinced I had bed bugs. Gross. I clean my apt at least once a week so I had no idea where they had come from. The bumps/bites started showing up on my upper arm too.
So I did the following:
I bug-bombed the entire apartment.
After the bombing, I sprayed my mattress and box spring and everything around them.
I washed all my bedding...three times
I washed my curtains
I washed most of the clothes in my room.
I spent 4 hours at the laundromat cleaning my comforter.
Slept in the living room (probably spreading the bugs)

I'm still waking up with a few more bumps each day. When I went into work the following Tuesday the first thing this girl tells me is how much worse it's gotten since last week. Great. Now I'm convinced I need to stay home so I don't spread my disease. I talked to a Dr at work and she asked me if I had tried anything new in the last week. And then it dawned on me what could be causing all of this:
Hairspray
I didn't think of it in the beginning as I had used it a few days before the bumps appeared. And my scalp never itched. I had never used this brand before. But it makes sense why the bumps were only on my face, neck, and upper arm that I spray my hair with. So there you go. I'm sad because this stuff worked great. And I paid more than $5 for it. More like $40 if you count all the money I wasted on bug killing equipment.

4 comments:

Katie said...

This is awesome. Seriously.

Becca's Blog said...

Haaaaaaaaaaaa! So it isn't that East Coast bed bug outbreak...the same outbreak where Jack on 30Rock got bed bugs? Good thing.

I never really did believe that you had bed bugs anyway, but I'm glad you know now for sure.

I think I have that same hairspray. I'll have to pay attention to see if it makes me itchy.

Mallory Fielding said...

If you had bed bugs, I really think I would have to shun you. They just freak me out. I am sorry about the hairspray, but I would be more sorry if I recommended it! I hope you get better soon.

caitlin said...

Are you sure it isn't because you jumped into the Lake? Just wondering?