I'm not really ranting. Really. That's because this whole situation became significantly smaller due to the fact that I took DS to Sick Kids Hospital for a check up. Seeing weak children being wheeled on their hospital beds through the hallways while my little buddy was bouncing on my lap, full of giggles, really gave me perspective.
DS even encouraged a little 9 year old girl...she seemed pretty blue, waiting there in her wheelchair next to her mom....for yet another test, but when DS started giggling in her direction, she began to giggle back...and, then, in the next waiting room we were in, the mom of the 14 day old girl born without her cerebellum began to chat with me. Oh, Lord, and eternity becomes so much more significant.
But this is about Bed Bugs...and our seeming lack or presence of them. With all the scare occurring in the city about Bed Bugs, you would THINK that the officials who are looking at our specimens would be trained Entomologists...not so. NOT SO AT ALL.
Here is a picture of the exact same bugs we took to Public Health...and we were told they were bed bugs.
They aren't.
If the bugs have "cerci" - paired appendages on the rear-most segments of many arthropods (wikipedia)...then, they cannot be bed bugs.
So, now for an email to my city council-person regarding the training of the bug experts in Public Health.
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