Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

We're all scared of something. For me, it's snakes. For Dan, it's spiders. Now don't get me wrong, Dan the man doesn't scream in terror if he sees a spider but let's be honest, they're not his favorite thing.

So the other day when Dan was at work, he had to clean out a part of the roof for a re-paint. Unbeknownst to him there was a spider's nest up there so when he was cleaning the spiders started dropping down onto him. He said he was like a scene from "Arachnaphobia" (I've never seen this but you can only imagine). He brushed the spider's off but I could tell from his story this wasn't the most pleasant experience for him.


That night Dan must have still been processing this event because in the dead of my sleep he shoots out of bed and starts yelling nonsensical things. I woke up as calm as can be and said, "Dan-- what's going on? Are you okay?". He kind of muttered something to me and then he tossed and turned a little bit before settling down into a sleep.

Then a few hours later, Dan must have woken up again and this time he's cruising around the house with the lights on trying to find Lanacane, an anti-itch/burn cream. He said he was being eaten alive and he wanted to know where I left the cream (I had just used it that night after I burned my hand in a baking incident). I patiently told him where the cream was and waited for him to climb back into bed and go to sleep again.

Then not long afterwards, Dan wakes me up and tells me to get out of bed. He has bug bites and he is sure they are bed bugs. Now folks I keep the sheets clean, let me assure you, and I did not have a single bite on me anywhere. They were not bed bugs but rather mosquito bites or possibly, spider bites. Regardless, there is no calming an itchy man down at 3am. So there we were, changing the sheets in the dead of night.

For anyone who knows me, I do not like getting up/being woken up. But as usual I was the picture of patience and grace that evening. It was a rare response for me when I am tired but Dan even told me the next day that he was impressed!