happyfappy

Did you read Eichenwald's piece on Russia's intel pipeline and the way in which they used you?

I write this from my mother in law's home, as our stuff sits in plastic bags and we await day 2 of spraying the apartment with pesticide.

A few weeks ago, my wife noticed that she and my daughter (2yo who cosleeps with us) started developing itchy little red marks on their skin. I did not. She suspected bed bugs, so we scoured the place looking for any signs and couldn't find any. No excrement, no eggs, no corpses, no shells, nothing. Glue traps we had set were clean.

We had an exterminator come to inspect. He took apart the bed, looked everywhere, and found only one tiny blood stain on the bed, which might have come from somewhere else. We were all just about conclude that there were no bed bugs when he spotted two live ones on a sheet under the bed.

We since discovered a nest in the cosleeper. Turns out, my wife had gotten it second hand from a friend who had stored it in a hotel closet.

We nuked the bedroom (had everything treated and wiped with alcohol), had the entire apartment spot sprayed, and bagged/treated everything in the adjoining rooms, but stopped short of throwing out our couch or doing the same for the rooms further out.

A few questions:

• Did we make a mistake by not ditching our couch?
• How often do you see a case like ours occur (very little apparent evidence in a very clean apartment)?
• Does it sound like we're going to succeed in getting rid of the bastards?
• Any additional advice or anything we missed?

Thanks!