A 71-year-old Denver woman spent the holidays alone this year. Though her children live nearby, she fears that if they visit, they’ll get caught up in the hellish bedbug infestation that’s plagued her home for nearly a year.
Bedbugs have inhabited her Francis Heights apartment at 2626 Osceola Street for the last ten months, she says. Despite regular pest control treatments and frequent complaints to management of the senior living community, the pests have spread to nearly every corner of her unit and show no signs of slowing down, claims the woman, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation.
Her daughters, Linda Dow and Jenn MacKinnon, say the situation has pushed their mother to “rock bottom,” describing her as lonely and depressed. When Dow dropped off gifts outside the building after Christmas, her mother wanted a hug. But Dow was afraid to touch her…