I am so sick of hearing about bedbugs. Every time I see another news program on bedbugs, I swear I start to itch. It’s just so disgusting. I sure don’t want to go to any motels any time soon. When I saw the piece on the bedbugs at the New York movie theater, it really upset me. It seems I can’t even enjoy a decent movie without worrying about these disgusting little creatures.
Many years ago I had a nephew that had scabies. His parents thought it was an allergic rash so they unwittingly exposed all of the other little children to scabies over the Christmas holiday. I didn’t get them, but my precious child did. When we discovered what it really was, it took some time to rid my child and all of his belongings of this disgusting little pest. This was back when I lived a couple miles from my parents up by Maple City. The kids would come over to play because my son had a lot of toys and a very cool castle bed that I had made for him. Some of the kids spent the night, including my nephew with the rash. (My nephew is a great kid so he will remain nameless.) Family members that ended up treating their kids for scabies will remember the Christmas from “Scabies Hell”. It took years to recover from the memory of the “SCABIES FROM HELL” nightmare experience. I still use Dial soap today, even though it probably doesn’t make any difference what soap I use.
I have no intention of finding myself in “bedbug hell”. I’m avoiding anything that may put me in contact with these buggy little creatures. I don’t think I’m going to go to any motels any time soon, but if I do, I’ll probably go with a can of “Raid” and spray the bed!
Teaching is another story. I saw a program that said students could unwittingly bring the bedbugs to school with them. As a teacher, I think I’m going to be on “bedbug alert” all year! Just the thought of these creatures makes me itch. I always watch for head scratching as that can be a sure sign of head lice. Now I’ll be wondering every time I see a child with a bite on his/her skin. I really don’t want to be paranoid. I love teaching, but I hate creepy, crawly, creatures that like to snack on people! Maybe if the press will stop reporting all these bedbug incidents, I could forget about them. However, those reports keep popping up every few weeks, even tonight! You know, if you have gotten this far into my post, you are probably itching already!