jessica
hi.
i've been dealing with some
pretty severe headaches for the last few weeks, and i'm kind of putting
together a hypothesis. now, i think it goes without saying that the
most important thing is everybody's health....
i went
to a concert on the evening of monday the 4th. the first headache hit me
on the afternoon of wednesday the 6th. i became aware of the bed bug
concern on thursday the 7th. i was nursing one when you came down on the
evening of the 8th. what i've noticed since then is that the headaches
have something to do with the air quality in the basement, and that i'm
going to need to air the basement out (probably tomorrow and monday). in
the mean time, i have the fan running nonstop. i've tried to turn it
off a few times, and the headache always comes on very strong. so, i'm
pretty sure about cause and effect with something in the air in the
basement.
now, who knows, right. it could be anything
at all, really. but, i'm just having a hard time shaking the possibility
that there may have been some spraying done in the basement when i was
gone. i mean, it all adds up. while it's true that the basement is
overdue for an airing out, and i could just be reacting to stale air.
why did it just start to affect me a few weeks ago?
if
there is something to the hypothesis, and i'm *still* reacting to the
pesticide, there must have been an awful lot of pesticide sprayed down
here. and, i think i ought to be concerned about long term effects, at
this point, due to continued exposure.
either way, the
reality is that i've had almost two weeks worth of migraines, now. i'm
going to need to seek medical attention one way or the other. that's
going to involve taking blood tests and other things - if i'm dealing
with chemical exposure, i'm going to figure that out. so, if you can
help me figure out of there was spraying down here, it's just saving me
some time, really.
i've been thinking about it a long
while and trying to get my head around it. how could anybody spray a
unit and not tell the person?
that seems insane. so,
i've been putting this email off, maybe to the detriment of my own
health. but, i've clued in that there's a kind of child-like concept of
punitive effects at play. i could imagine that he might have been afraid
that he'd be "caught" with bed bugs, and so wanted to spray to make
sure nobody found out.
and, then he couldn't tell me, of course.
it sounds inconceivable. but, to a child, the possibility of not getting
caught with bed bugs would outweigh everything else. or, at least
that's the best i can make sense of it.
it's all
horribly negligent and everything, but i'm really more concerned about
my health, right now. if there was something sprayed down here, figuring
out what it was will help me in determining what kind of exposure i've
had, how much i've got in me, how to clear it out, etc. and, i'm going
to get to the point through testing, eventually, anyways.
i
trust you'd tell me, if you knew, because you're a responsible adult
and everything. i'm more presenting arguments for you to throw at paul
to get an honest response out of him. i really don't think i'd get one
out of him, myself.
even if i can air the place out
tomorrow and it works in eliminating the headaches, i think i need to
know if i'm possibly reacting to something or not.
i
need to be clear that i'm not exactly making any accusations. as
mentioned, it could be anything. but, i can't shake the suspicion - and
i'm consequently going to end up testing for it. if i can get some
confirmation, it's just going to allow me to reduce exposure faster and
reduce risk factors quicker.
the landlord
Jessica,
I have asked repeatedly that My brother and niece catch one bug or bugs
so that I could verify there are bed bugs. my niece started this scare
originally with what she thought were bites on the back of her hand.
That turned out to be Xema. She had recently visited her Doctor and was
told she had XEMA on her hand and not bites. Up to this point they have
not caught one bug to show me that Bed bugs are identified as a problem.
At this point I am convinced there are no bed bugs at all. If there
were bed bugs they would have multiplied and there would be evidence of
many bugs and actual bites. I have not seen one bed bug to this day. I
know you research things quite well and I have done my share of reading
and researching! bed bugs spread and multiple quickly. I have not
seen any evidence that there are bed bugs in my niece's place or any
other place. ..... I was told that my niece's boyfriend, killed a bug
crawling up the wall and which they determined it to be a bed bug. Still
they did not keep it to identify it as a bed bug.. The other point I
want to make is that the thought of bed bugs does make people panic and
do not want to be associated with this problem. SO, people to panic and
react without verifying. So please be empathetic to this reality.
SPRAYING.
I do know that they did spray in my niece's place about a week ago
which was about 1/4 to less of a spray can; my brother did the spraying,
one time along the bed boards and baseboard in one room. This was
isolated to their apartment only. I do not believe this product could
have migrated to your apartment, since they followed the instructions to
keep all their doors closed while this product settled. Please keep in
mind each units ventilation system does not mix their air to the rest
of the air in the building. All exhaust fans purge air outside the
building. Please, also keep in mind anything is possible when door s
open and close, but I would say that any migration of the product would
have been minimal to the existing hallway and they did keep doors shut
for the appropriate time. The other point that I must make is that I
cannot stop any tenant from spraying in their apartment. I cannot even
stop you from buying a can of spray and you spraying your apartment.
All I can do is educate everyone to be mindful of any bug situations,
think clearly of what they should or should not do and that they must
contact me before they act. Additionally, I have been specific with
my niece and my brother, there will be no further spraying in the
building for bed bugs, since we have no proof of bed bugs. They must
have my permission to spray anywhere in the common hallways and
basement!!!!!. ....
jessica
yeah. and,
i've done a little more research and it does turn out that the symptoms i
was experiencing - aphasia (difficulty speaking) and auras - are
actually common symptoms of severe migraines. the thing is they're
*also* symptoms of pesticide poisoning. i mean, i initially thought i
was having a stroke. there was a point where i couldn't speak.
so....it's more like i wanted to rule it out.
consider
this: i suppose you could imagine how a fumigation in here might have
also created those symptoms. that's what i wanted to be sure hadn't
happened.
i really don't have a history of migraines
either, so it's not like i could say i was expecting something from a
trigger. but lots of things cause migraines. it turns out the number one
trigger is in fact environmental conditions. so maybe i just had a bad
reaction to the stale air, after all.
i know it's a
crazy thing, but thank you for determining whether there was spraying
down here or not, just so i know what had happened.
in case you're curious, this describes the attack:
https://migraine.com/blog/migraine-symptoms-transient-aphasia/
it's
maybe easier to see why poisoning is something that's in the distinct
realm of possibility. and, so, given the circumstances...
