Bed bugs

Goodness, I did post a reply earlier but this forum isn’t exactly user friendly, much like yourself....
yes, we were approached by a journalist. She asked for our story to raise awareness which we gladly did. We are of the age where if you have nothing nice to say then don’t say anything.
Our sofas were made by a company called Thomas Lloyd. Look them up and you will see that to replace them would cost in excess of £4,000 in their 40% off sale...... they might not be in the average Daily Mail reader’s taste but we liked them and they were very comfortable. Would YOU want to have something in your house that was harbouring bed bugs???
We are honest hard working people and we can do without people casting aspersions on us!!!!!

I was contacted via the internet and had a telephone interview. I was told this would help to raise awareness of bed bugs when travelling, unfortunately there are some really nasty people out there that have commented on the story and been really personal. It’s upset me deeply to read some of the comments, these people do not know us, maybe I did overreact by binning our lovely comfy sofas but I naively thought that once they were gone, so would the bugs be. Little did I know that they had already transferred up to our bed. We were only being bitten when we were on the sofa and we used our bedroom as a living room for several days before I discovered the bugs in our bed.
The pest control people said that we had discovered the bugs very early on and they were amazed at how quickly we discovered them.
I just thought by talking to a journalist that even if we helped one person to avoid what we’ve been through then that would be good enough. I certainly didn’t expect a backlash but then some people clearly have nothing better to do with their time.