This is a break from our normal blog routine to update you. Back in Croatia I posted a pic with huge welts that I thought were from mosquitoes. My mom pointed out that she thought they were bed bugs. I dismissed it and haven’t had a bite since. But we’re in the south of France and Daniel all of a sudden has these huge welts, which he attributes to mosquito bites. The welts start spreading, and we begin to think he’s breaking out in hives. That of course was until we woke up. I look at my bed and there all these little bugs that look like ants but I look a little closer and quickly cringe, they’re bed bugs. And that’s not the worst. I strip my mattress and as I do, Daniel notices something on the underbelly of the sheet. It’s this huge bed bug, he grabs some tissue to kill it and all this blood spews out. It got someone and it wasn’t me but Daniel. I felt so bad. I immediately go downstairs to let them know and they quickly say it’s from people’s bags- it’s not from ours or else we would have been bitten long before. But they said they’ve never had a problem in that room but that they’re going to disinfect it. Okay, fine. And to top it off the bottom of my mattress has mold. We’re heading to the pharmacy for some medicine so Daniel can stop scratching and so that the swelling can go down. Ooph. What a day. If you have any tips or ideas about how to check, disinfect and treat the bites leave it in the comments section, it would be greatly appreciated. Homeopathic ideas are always welcome.

The images below are of Daniel’s left ear, left arm, right arm, both sides of his lower back, neck, and left ankle. This is crazy.

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