EMERGENCY: My apartment is infested with bed bugs
I am so, so sorry to be here asking for help. I've been trying to handle this on my own, but I've spent more than I had trying to handle it. The long and short of it is that there are bed bugs in my apartment, and I can't afford to treat them on my own.
We've been trying to deal with this since the beginning of the month. We don't know who brought them into the building or how. We hadn't been to visit anyone or had been visited by anyone when the bites started to appear, and it took us a few days after that to realize what we were dealing with. We never expected this would be something we would ever have to deal with in our lifetime, but this has been our entire lives this month.
It has been half a week since we've had any bites or seen any bed bugs, but my sister just had one crawling on her pillow just tonight. This means we need to do more treatments and more visits to the laundromat.
And in trying to treat these bed bugs, we've spent more money than we could afford. We're not going to be able to make rent. We can't afford to get bed frames to get our mattresses off the floor, and at this point we're planning on throwing our mattresses out entirely and getting air mattresses to replace them for the time being. But we can't afford that either, and we honestly NEED bed frames to put bed bug interceptors under them.
But we can't afford that, if we don't even have enough money in the bank right now to make rent by the end of the month. Doing this makes me sick, but I need to ask for help, or else I risk losing my apartment, spending every penny we have trying to get rid of an infestation we didn't cause.
If you can, please, please consider sending a donation. Anything would help more than you can ever imagine.
And if you can't, please reblog this. Getting more eyes on this will be a huge help in increasing the chances that my sister and I find help. I am so, so sorry.
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UPDATE: My sister's dresser was infested
My sister found herself with new bites after not seeing any for a few days, and she found another place they seemed to be hiding. Her dresser. She found them crawling around in her pants.
We have tossed out the dresser entirely, but taking all of our clothes to the laundromat is expensive because we have to wash and dry on the highest setting, which costs more than normal loads. And on top of having to clean our clothes, we're going to need temporary containers to put her clothes in until we can get her a new dresser, more than likely once we've cleared the infestation.
Please, please donate if you can, or share this if you can't. This month has been a living nightmare.
