with my scalp since moving into this apartment. It got really bad after the landlord wrote that he was victorious over the bed bugs. In the letter the second and third paragraph asked if the tenants and residents had bed bugs and to let the property manager know immediately if they did.
When I let the property manager know that no diatemaceous soil placement or any checkup on the apartment I reside in had occurred and there was some bug, do not know if its bed bug that is causing irritations to my scalp.
The property manager wrote back to quit calling wolf and that there were no bed bugs in my apartment. He said if I wish to move I could do so without penalty.
I have the pictures of all my whelps during this period of time. Actually the iphone pictures were lost because well AT&T's software crashed that item. Geekboy pays for my iphone. LOL do you think my unemployment of $60 a week could?
I took pictures of the bug invasion and was able to bag some of the bugs. During this time Medicaid and I were fighting so that I could have healthcare enough to get help with the whelps. I was not able to get the care I needed. Finally when I saw the dermatologist, month later he was frivolous with the appointment proclaiming what a healthy flawless person I was. It took me two more months to get the new dermatologist. In between I saw an allergist who proclaimed there were no allergy tests for bed bugs. The new dermatologist stated that the allergist was wrong that there were tests.
My new dermatologist stated that anytime that I thought there were bug problems to come on in and they will see me immediately. That's a relief.
My primary physician was so consumed with the breast cancer that she thought I had because of the negligent imaging center that she would not listen to anything i was telling or asking her. She poohed my foot doctor and rolled her eyes about the allergy and dermatologist.
Actually the allergy and dermatologist are most useful. They bonafide proved that I have high allergies to bed bugs, roaches, dust mites and sulfa, and aromatic amines (meaning cigarette smoke). The 22 needle test of the allergist was a great control for me. I took pictures of it. You can put those pictures side by side with the pictures of my whelps from the bed bugs.
Why bed bugs and not just a cockroach? Well the cockroaches that were found in this apartment were in the emptied closet and on the wall next to the musician far away from my bed. There was one outside the at the time empty apartment next door, an apartment the landlord could have easily offered to get away from immediate harm from the bed bug extermination. He did not, he ignored me. No small cockroaches have been seen or found. The cockroaches I speak of are huge, they are tree cockroaches.
Most importantly though, a bed bug beagle was brought in to inspect apartments in the building. That is why 311 would not be able to help me as the landlord was taking steps.
The bed bug beagle identified the end of my leather sofa bed as having bed bugs and the docile bloodshot eyed dog also barked at me. At that time I was experiencing the scalp irritations. The dermatologist did a biopsy on my scalp and quaified the irritations of my scalp. If PPD were a problem with my couch would I have had scalp irritations years before? The couch is a few years old. I did not. I received my first whelp within a month of living in this apartment. At that time I took all my clothes out of the closet and washed them and put them in plastic clothes bags. I steamed the closet in its entirety as it smelled like what I came to recognize bed bugs. There were reasons for that. The framing around the closet inside and out as well as the bathroom is corroded. Why the property manage hit the bathroom frame and it bounced off, he hit it back on again. This is a haven for bed bugs as well as many significant gaps in the floors, the radiator, the cracks in the seams of the ceiling and floor.
The landlord/property manager promised to take care of his apartment's disrpair in May 2009. Before he exterminated for the bed bugs I asked that 1) he repair these items 2) replace my sofa bed that had been found infected and 3) provide a place for me to be away from an extermination that recommended those with asthmatic conditions be away for a few days. The allergist as well as primary doctor will vouch for asthmatic conditions present in me at this time. The landlord/property manager ignored my requests and their exterminator lied to me and said the extermination was different and asthmatic conditions, well, I need only be away for 4 hours. I was dreadfully ill for a week. I asked them not to spray my sofa bed and they did. The residue and smell was all over the couch. This is the obnoxiousness of a slumlord. They own the courts and they will damn well do what they please!
There is much correspondence re bed bugs between myself and the property manager as well as their numerous flyers. Why the very first conversation I had with the property manager was recorded. I took it to the civil court and they said it was mild harassment. Their response to my question about neighbors coming up to me and warning me to not buy new furniture or put anything on the floor as there were bed bugs was met by the property manager stating move out of our building within 24 hours or suffer the penalty. The penalty? Two years of rent paid immediately.
:P losers
still you have to see the whole mess of this. That it is incredibly hard to prove your landlord's negligene if you do not have established healthcare. That took a very long time, insurmountable amounts of my time, time where the agencies refused to give me any time off from work to take an appointment. You have physicians just throwing my time away because of their petty personal biases. Even the good dermatologist way overbooks to where my appointments are stretched out to 2-3 hours of waiting. When the appointment actually happens he is too busy to even give me qualified time. This last time they skimmed over everything in a minute.
My scalp is still a raging red. Probably because the excessive heat has brought back the bugs. This time though I can just pop in to the dermatologist after I go get another referral that is. I wonder if that primary physician has got over her breast cancer thing so that we can talk about the problem with my feet and scalp. These are important items. If she cannot I will get a new provider. I still have some time on my account. I will use it very well not in biased waste.
Sitting on a trend...
