Chez Suzi adventures continue. The blowers are....blowing. I'd go into the office or work from Starbucks today, but pest control is supposed to come by today. They have been out twice before to try to figure out what is eating K-Bug. She has caught a couple of bugs over the last few days, one in her room and this morning in my shower (!!!). So, I need to be here so I can approve whatever needs to happen and deal with the cats.

K-Bug is certain that they are bed bugs. But she is the only one being eaten and this is the first time we have found anything other than a spider. We have checked her mattress and box springs multiple times for the typical signs without any luck. So who knows what is going on.

The house is a mess, mostly from relocating stuff from yesterday's flood, the cats are already off kilter due to the blowers, and I am a whole pile of "don't wanna deal".

I should probably get dressed so I'm not "not dealing" in my robe when the pest guy shows up.

K-Bug is certain that they are bed bugs. But she is the only one being eaten

Unless you are allergic to bed bugs (like I am, YAY) the bites are completely undetectable.

When we had bedbugs in our first apt, I was covered head to toe in red welty bite marks and DH wasn't even itchy.

Home nurse just left. Apparently it only takes thirty minutes to get my whole life health story, including "claims of negative reaction to medication" and "why would a home nurse give me dosages the ER balks at?" I figured I'd get everything out there now, instead of letting her find stuff out and react to it where she couldn't ask me questions right away.

Thing is, though, it gave me a headache.

I should be hearing from her in a week or more.

Did she give you any sense of the workability of a home nurse and the treatment you need?

I have relocated to Starbucks. K-Bug wrote a note to the Pest Control guys, so hopefully that will get resolved without me. I just couldn't handle the blowers any more. If I could afford it, I'd book a hotel for tonoight if the blowers are still there this evening. More likely I'll double up on my Ativan and hope that knocks me out.

What?

I hope the librarians among us don't run into this gambit.

As random as your treatment seems to be, ita !, I am hoping you can get care at home because if they authorize it at the actual dosage and pace that your doctor ordered, it might have a better chance of being carried out correctly.

I just couldn't handle the blowers any more. If I could afford it, I'd book a hotel for tonoight if the blowers are still there this evening. More likely I'll double up on my Ativan and hope that knocks me out.

When my washer lost it's mind and flooded my place (and, sadly, the walls below me in PDX), the blowers were awful. I mean, very needed and pretty efficient but oh that noise and it was constant.

I wish I could just take today off and crawl into a cave. I don't want to go home until I have to. I'm hoping when they check on the blowers today, they will discover that the walls are already dry enough. They said 48 hours though....which just makes me want to cry.

My hair is WILD right now. It's what happens when you go back to bed during the day with a cat who likes to sleep on it. Pumpkin wraps herself around my head and tugs out hanks to rest her face on, and wrap her paws.

Pumpkin wraps herself around my head and tugs out hanks to rest her face on, and wrap her paws.

Wow, that sounds so cute!

Probably sounds less cute to you, though.

When I was in college, I once woke up with the feeling I couldn't breathe. Turns out my roommate's 20 lb longhair cat was sleeping on my face.

sarameg - that does sound cute and yet uncomfortable. . . at least Pumpkin isn't eating your hair.