So after numerous posts on here which turned out to be nothing I now have bed bugs.
After months of my friends and family getting fed up with me, and thinking I had numerous skin problems, I'm actually living in a house with bed bugs.
One part of me can't believe it. I feel like I willed them into being through all my paranoia. The other part of me knew it would happen eventually because my life seems to be falling to pieces.
Last month I moved into a new apartment in Spain. Before moving I asked the landlady if the building had any history of bed bugs. He response was ' no, I wouldn't choose to live in a dirty slum'. Obviously, she knows little about bed bugs but I didn't push it. I checked the house extensively and didn't find any evidence except a dried shell of a mystery bug (I posted the pic here and it was negatively IDed). However, for a few weeks I've been getting weird non-itchy pimples in places I never do, so I've been a bit more vigilant. Today I decided to check all the mattresses in the house and on my flatmates mattress I found a bug, a cast, and fecal matter. I didn't handle it well.
Although everyone seems to think living abroad is so glamorous and holiday-like, I don't have any savings or even a job that pays well enough to deal with this. The landlady is likely to try to say we brought them in (even though she stayed in that room herself after coming from London, and she'd been renting the house out with AirBnB) and make us pay for treatment. If we try to leave we will be out of pocket because we have signed a 9 month contract (I don't have enough money to leave anyway) which say we have to PAY OUT the contract if it can't be taken over by other tenants.
Does anyone know anything about the legal stuff surrounded landlords/tenants/bbs in Spain? Or the best way to deal with things here? My Spanish is not good enough to deal with something like this, I've just started a new job, my friends and family are miles away, I really don't know how to start.
Posting a picture since I've had so many false alarms people will probably think it's not BBs.