Bug Scare

I really need to get a grip. I freaked out all day Sunday because I thought we had bed bugs. Here's the story...

Reese and I both have terrible bloody bites on the back of our necks, but Daddy does not have any bites. The only place I could think that Reese and I have been and not Daddy was Reese's bed, because I lay with her every night.

I was sleeping with Reese last night and found a bug crawling in her bed. I captured it in a container and went online to try to identify it. Of course my research had me completely convinced we have bed bugs. I called Terminex and got their after hours emergency line for existing customers only. I left a message stating, I am not an existing customer, but will become one if they will come disinfect my house immediately for bed bugs. Can you believe Terminex never called me back? They must have thought I was crazy.

I tore apart Reese's bed searching for more bed bugs. I sanitized all the bedding and flipped the mattress and box spring on its side to inspect the seams (per my online research). Libby was the only one who seemed to enjoy this - she climbed up on top of the box spring to watch me inspect and clean frantically.

I kept inspecting the bug all day on Sunday, I am pretty sure it was a deer tick, not a bed bug. Also very disgusting. Luckily our bites look nothing like tick bites, so we eliminated the tick as the neck biter.

Finally, I was talking to some neighbors today and found out they have the same bites. They spoke to a pharmacist about the bites and I guess they are just nasty gnats and nothing to worry about. Ugh! All this worrying for nothing! Now we just apply some hydrocortisone cream and sleep soundly.