Bedbugs’ toll is financial, physical, emotional

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By Jim Weiker

The Columbus Dispatch Thursday October 11, 2012 9:36 AM

This is a story that no one wanted to be part of. A story of exhaustion, expense and embarrassment.

A story of bedbugs.

The story includes Eric Hurd waking up in his North Side home to find the bugs crawling on him before pulling back the mattress cover and finding hundreds of the insects.

It includes Todd Perry becoming so covered in bedbug welts that he had to wear makeup to work to avoid alarming others. It includes Rosemarie Mitchell having to postpone back surgery twice, once after the hospital learned that her home had bedbugs and a second time because of infections from the welts.

It includes Rod Bodwalk painting the floors of his East Side apartment beige so he could better spot the bugs crossing the floor.

And it includes Mary Elizabeth Courtney sticking dozens of bugs to a piece of tape in an effort to convince her landlord that she still had a problem after fighting the relentless pests for eight months.

As members of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force prepare for a public forum on the bugs this afternoon, the human toll can only be described as, in Courtneys words, a nightmare. Bedbugs can consume lives; cost thousands of dollars; require months of labor; and, long after theyre gone, exact psychological damage.

This infestation affected all areas of our lives, said Mitchell, who spent eight months ridding her East-moor home of the vermin.

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