Dear Editor:
Mr. Garcia, as you know a Bed Bug situation has occurred at the senior citizen building located at 221 Jackson Street, Hoboken, NJ. A situation you have addressed but failed to recognize the psychological effect it had on the tenant. This tenant is now in the hospital, as a result of a stroke. Yet, you still refuse her request for an emergency transfer into another building.
This senior citizen stands accused of bringing this problem into her home. A senior citizen who can barely walk and spends most of her days sitting in her apartment. Your logic as to how she came in contact with a bed bug is that she bought it in from the outside or that her furniture contained it. There is no new furniture in this tenant’s apartment. The only outside activity she does on a daily basis is taking the elevator downstairs to get her mail, washes her clothes in the downstairs laundry room and sits in the community room for certain gatherings. Fellow senior citizens in this building have stated that bed bugs can be seen in the hallways and sometimes in the elevators.
So Mr. Garcia you are correct in saying that this senior citizen could have bought this bed bug into her home, but you fail to recognize it came from within the building. Shame on you, Mr. Garcia for ignoring a senior citizen’s plea to be relocated to another building. A transfer that is needed, so her peace of mind can be had, so that there is no more sleepless nights, so that the lights do not have to stay on all night and mainly so that her stress level does not reach the point, to which another stroke might occur.
My only wish for you, Mr. Garcia, is that the next time you address the senior citizens of 221 Jackson Street, assuring them that everything is OK a bed bug crawls into your nice clean suit jacket; you take it home and hang it in your closet; then the next day you awaken with red marks all over you, to which you have no idea where they came from.
Mrs. Johnson