Searching for Safety in My Home

First came the pandemic, then the bedbugs

Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash

“I think you have bedbugs. Probably just a couple,” the exterminator said blithely as he stared at the piece of bug carcass I had given him.

It was the summer of 2020, and as covid swirled around us in New York, my husband woke up with what looked like bite marks on his legs. After our frantic examination of the…