There aren't many things that truly gross me out but this one is tops on the list. I'm a certified Prosthetist/Orthoist meaning I evaluate for, cast for, design, manufacture and fit custom Prothesis and Orthoses. I see all types of patients from all walks of life. I have a guy coming in this afternoon who dropped his prosthesis off this past friday for some refurbishment. I came in this morning, pulled out the innersocket and a bedbug crawled out. No doubt at all about what it was ( I crushed and burned it) as I looked up pictures on about 5 million websites.

Not sure what to do. I didn't manufacture his last leg but am supposed to cast him for a new one today. I was throwing in the refurb as a favor but now I really, really don't want to touch it or have this guy in my fully carpeted and bedbug free office. On the other hand, I can't turn away a Medicare patient once an order is received and the prescribing Dr. is a good referral source.

I'm all itchy now.

You did the right thing by coming here.

That's so fucked up. I'd be grossed out too.

T-Minus 48 minutes until his arrival. I tried calling and switching his appt. to his rehab/PT facility but no luck getting him on the phone. I can't stop scratching.

Quit being a pansy.

That's what my boss said too. Nothing pansy-like about it. Those critters are gross and it can cost mucho dinero to get them out of your house or office. Once I told him that he was all about rescheduling the guy.

One of my co-workers recently had a bout with bedbugs. She is not a messy or dirty person, but travels a lot and opens her home to visitors frequently as well.

It cost a bit to get her home treated and she threw away her bed frame because that's where she saw them (aside from the bites she was getting). They basically cooked her whole apartment to 150 degrees or something and added some chemicals as well, kept her outside for 8 hours and she was good to go.

I still felt weird giving her rides in my car and sitting right next to her at work before the treatment. I don't want those things either. Yuck.

He rescheduled his appt. for this Thursday at his Physical Therapist's facility. Going to try to have as little physical contact as possible.

I'm pretty sure there was a thread like four years back in which I described my experience with these fucking things. Basically, we left our old apartment because they were slowly spreading from apartment to apartment and the management was too stupid to actually deal with them the right way.

who knew mecca was an amputee

Oh, so that's why he was modded.

we haven't boarded together in a while, savant

let's get the gang back together.

but first let's devise a proper initiation to which future aspirants will be subjected

i'll leave that to you and lenny since you both went to school in the south.

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