Scott Settles of Middle Valley hasn’t had a good night’s sleep for two weeks since his war against the bedbugs began.
The self-employed contractor still wakes in the middle of the night to a creepy, itchy feeling, even after spending $1,200 for a multiroom bedbug treatment from Terminex and $800 for a new mattress.
“I’ll jump up with a flashlight, jerk the covers back and there hasn’t been anything there. It might be in my head,” he said. “It’s been awful.”
Poison ivy-like welts popped up a month ago on Settles’ legs and arms, but it wasn’t until a couple weeks ago that he woke up itching, pulled back the covers and saw bedbugs crawling around his sheets.
“I freaked out,” he said.