For Martha and the bed bugs

My friend, Martha Kulig, is in New York City working for three weeks. She is stage managing the new Tony Kushner play that will be performed at the Guthrie later this year.

Martha lives in Minneapolis so she is staying in a hotel in NYC. She called me last week to ask if I'd ever had bed bugs. I have to admit I don't think I have...fortunately.

She was not so fortunate and had a really bad infestation in her hotel.

Today I opened my USA Today and there is announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was holding a National Bed Bug Summit in Arlington, VA. And this evening on National Public Radio there was a story on the Summit.

Here is one of the pics of her bites which turned into welts. ugh!