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 Last week I started to get some strange looking splotches on my forehead and scalp. A case of creeping crud?  Kris Berg's Martian Death Flu?

I have always had very clear skin so I had no idea where this was coming from. I asked one of my Realtor buddies to take a look and she thought they looked like bug bites. Hmmmm. Interesting. Being the internet dependent do-it-yourself Gen Xer that I am I used Google images to diagnose my splotches. Clearly they were bed bug bites. Looked just like them.

So, we loaded up every piece of bedding and laundry in the house on Saturday evening and took our daughter for her first trip ever to a laundromat. Exciting times for a 3 year old. Quarters to be put in slots, buttons to push, carts to crash around and new people to entertain. She loved it. Somehow the laundromat seems to have frayed my new sheets but that is another issue. I sent Dmitry out for some Benadryl ointment and tablets, because that is what I learned I was supposed to do on Wikipedia.

To learn more about Not having bed bugs, shingles that aren't on your roof and what this all has to do with selling your home, stop on by miOaklandCounty.com. 

 

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21 Comments on What do you do when your shingles are not on your roof?

I am very impressed with your ability to tie shingles into a real estate story.  That is an amazing ability.  But then you always write good stuff!

01/24/2007 06:32 AM by Linda Davis (RE/MAX Realty Group)


Linda, you are very generous.  I take it you did not read my super bad post about Troy Michigan yesterday.  Please don't even go there...  It's a new low for me in blogging.

01/24/2007 06:35 AM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


shingles, bed bugs.... it's a toss up which I'd go for given a choice.  Do you get a choice....

I have not Googled shingles (I think when a friend's friend had bed bugs a couple of years ago I did all the internet research necessary on the bed bug topic.) Does that mean you never had chicken pox growing up?  Isn't the virus that causes shingles the same one that causes chicken pox?  Or does having chicken pox leave the virus in your system?  I obviously have done research on the topic in the past...

One of my friends had shingles about ten years ago...she showed me the shingles on her stomach... they did not look like itty bitty bug bites.  

01/24/2007 06:37 AM by Maureen McCabe - Central Ohio real estate (Real Living HER)


Here comes more than you want to know, but you asked.

They did look like bites when they first appeared.  Bed bug bites also appear in a line and the shingles appear along a nerve.  Now they dont look like bed bites.

I never had chicken pox but I was exposed and had the virus laying dormant inside of me waiting for the perfect moment to scar my otherwise flawless beauty. 

01/24/2007 06:48 AM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


Lately there have been several newspaper articles about bedbugs in hotels and motels. So far I haven't seen them in any hotel ratings, though.  In New Orleans we had mice instead of bed bugs.

01/24/2007 07:44 AM by Sharon Simms St Pete Florida CRS CIPS CLHMS (RE/MAX Metro)


So are  those of us who had chicken pox are safe? Or could we have it dormant in our systems?  

Being the mother of a 3 year old... do people expose their kids to chicken pox  these days?  To try and get it over with?  Or was that mumps?  I have a great mumps story... no, no never mind. 

I was one of six kids I think we all experienced chicken pox together....  without a lot of planning on my mother's part...    

01/24/2007 07:45 AM by Maureen McCabe - Central Ohio real estate (Real Living HER)


Here is hoping for a quick quick recovery, my understanding is it is painful so take it easy.

01/24/2007 07:51 AM by Jennifer Fivelsdal, Rhinebeck NY (Keller Williams Realty)


Maureen Francis - If it is bed bugs, don't forget to treat your mattresses and not just the bedding.  My hubby worked as an exterminator years ago and bed bugs are rough.  Here's wishing for a happy ending!

Maureen McCabe - Now Moms get the chicken pox vaccine for their kids.  Wonderful stuff!

01/24/2007 08:10 AM by Sarah Cooper (Real Estate Shows)


I think you're too young for Shingles.  But, better check the mattresses and any upholstry in the house.  Those critters are pervasive.

Lenn

01/24/2007 08:57 AM by Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Real Estate


Nope, they really are shingles.  I am too young, and I did not qualify for the medical study on shingles at the hospital because I am too young by a decade!

There are no BED BUGS in my house. 

MM, if you have had cp then you can get shingles.  It is the same virus and it never leaves your system once you have it.  Now they have vaccinations for cp and my daughter has had it. 

01/24/2007 09:02 AM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


Mo, only you could write about shingles like you were Alfred L Tennyson.  lolol  I'm off to your other blog, good writing!

01/24/2007 10:28 AM by Carole Cohen RealtorĀ®, ePRO (Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office)


Well, I was going to say, "Don't let the Bed Bugs bite!"....but it no longer applies. Are those the 30-year composition shingles? My wife gets them every once in a great while. Not fun.  I've been experiencing some health issues of my own lately. The doctor has just recently diagnosed me with "Transactional Flipitis"

01/24/2007 01:30 PM by Rich Jacobson ~ ActiveRain Community Builder (ActiveRain Corporation)


YUCK! If I were you, I would call someone and have them spray the inside of your house all over. And personally, I wouldn't go to a laundrymat...no telling what you could pick up there....YEEEEEEEEEW such a horrible thing. Wash, wash, wash, spray, spray,spray

How about moving...I know a house for sale!

OK, I am caught! I read your post here and commented before going to your other blog...Shingles...that must hurt.  None of my children nor I have ever had chicken pox and I've alwasys wondered if that means we'll never get shingles. Someone once told me that if you don't have a severe case of chicken pox than you are more apt to get shingles so wonder where that leaves us. I understand it's quite painful so take care of yourself. If you need any help with the carnival of Local motion let me know.

01/24/2007 09:44 PM by Sacramento Real Estate and Luxury Homes, Assoc. Real Estate Broker,Gena Riede (Remax Gold, Assoc Broker)


These little critters are becoming a huge issue - lots of stuff in the news here, NYC, etc. Ran into the myself years ago living in an apartment. Not much fun. My mother-in-law had shingles once - very painful I understand. I was "fortunate" to have the c pox as a kid.

Jeff

01/25/2007 09:13 AM by Jeff Dowler ~ Carlsbad Real Estate (RE/MAX Associates)


As the world shrinks we in this country are reliving some of the health problems that we thought we had eradicated long ago.  Remember the saying, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite?" It sure has a new meaning for this generation.  But we are seeing more of the old health problems and "varmints" due to others from foreign soils bring the unwanted guest with them.  We have to be more vigilant with our "own" health care and house keeping than ever.

Good post.

Roberta "Dove" Lee

Century 21 Olde Tyme, Norco, CA

01/25/2007 11:27 PM by Roberta Lee-Norco Corona Riversid Homes For Sale (Century 21 Olde Tyme)


Sorry about the Shingles, Jay would suggest that you for-sure qualify as Codger-like, in that sense. I'm a little embarrased to admit I didn't see the the lead-in to FIBO vs Realtor sales.

Medford 

01/26/2007 04:42 PM by Jay Merton & Medford Ambrose, the Codgers (Retired Handymen)


Hah, I gotcha, Med!  I like that.  It's hard to pull one over on a Codger!

01/26/2007 05:23 PM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


Hah, I gotcha, Med!  I like that.  It's hard to pull one over on a Codger!

01/26/2007 05:23 PM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


Maureen,

You really didn't nedd to comment twice, or ARE you more Codger-like than we imagined? I might comment twice frogetting the first comment :)

Medford 

01/26/2007 06:56 PM by Jay Merton & Medford Ambrose, the Codgers (Retired Handymen)


It is the pain meds, Med.  They make me do wacky things.  I am not responsible.

01/26/2007 07:30 PM by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky, SKBK Sotheby's - Metro Detroit (SKBK Sotheby's International Realty)


Got me again! I'm not on meds, and Carl insists I'm a half-bubble off-center.

Medford 

01/26/2007 08:01 PM by Jay Merton & Medford Ambrose, the Codgers (Retired Handymen)


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