Theresa Braine

When we heard that NYC supers were getting together earlier this week to talk about bed bugs, we hustled over to listen in. After all, the city’s supers are among those on the front lines of the bed bug invasion, and by the simple act of, say, instructing a resident how to properly wrap bed-bugged belongings before disposing of them, they can potentially prevent infestation of an entire building.

Bedbugged! is a weekly column by journalist and bed bug survivor Theresa Braine. For more, click here.

Now that I had lined up an exterminator and the bites were less frequent (flawed as my original exterminator was, he had gotten rid of most of the bugs for the time being)--I had to go through every single one of my possessions, heat-treating or examining them, then bagging them in airtight plastic.

Bedbugged! is a weekly column by journalist and bed bug survivor Theresa Braine. For more, click here.