rachylou
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In our new flat, it was in one of the bathroom cupboards which I was yet to investigate. Jimby and Cookie have not entered the bathroom at all so I know they have not come in to contact with it directly.
However and I know this is going to make me sound completly crazy...
My OCD is in complete overdrive and I need some reasurance that everything is going to be ok now...
My husband removed the bait box like so...
Wearing one marigold glove he picked up the bait box using the gloved hand and a plastic bag, he picked it up as if picking up dog poo then using his ungloved hand he pulled the bag up over the back of the bait box.
Then he pulled the bag together with his gloved hand, I then asked him to put his glove in the bag with the box so he removed the glove, put it in the bag and then did the bag up with both hands, he then walked from the bathroom through the hall and out the front door to put it straight in the bin.
My OCD is completly attacking me from EVERY angle at the moment since finding this damned box on saturday and I have not stopped cleaning since.
I have cleaned the door frames that hubby touched, cleaned the bathroom floor straight away after he removed the box, all the clothes we were wearing have been put out to wash, I have washed my hair 4 times since removal of the box...
Then the OCD started really attacking and over the course of the next 48 hrs I cleaned all the floors of the flat, the rug in the lounge, completly blitzed the bathroom, have decided to throw away Jimby and Cookies treat jar and get a new one as that one was on the side of the kitchen sink when hubby came back in and washed his hands...
I have also decided today that I shoudl buy new trainers for hubby as I do not want the trainers he wore to remove it in the flat in case they are contaminated- even though they have been in the flat since saturday anyway which is causing me unmentionable anxiety
My concerns are:
1. Could anything have remained on the floor of the bathroom once it had been cleaned?
2. Could any of the poison have leaked out of the bag on the way to the front door?
3. If hubby touched some part of the box without realising like when he puleed the bag over the back of the box with his ungloved hand then touched something else and then the bunnies touched that could it poioson them?
4. Hubby was wearing his slippers when he removed the bait box from the bathroom and at first I did not think too much of it so did not think to wash them straight away but that night Jimby licked his slipper, if anything were on them which was dangerous would what ever was going to happen have happened by now? (That was Saturday evening) I have since washed his slippers.
5. Because our hall way is very narrow and right opposite the bathroom door, shoes are walked in to the hall way, then we walk through the hall way in to the lounge and walk whatever dirt has been brought in by shoes through the flat, could any poision have got on to his shoes when taking the box out and then have been walked in to the lounge? As I did not clean the hall way straight away after removal of the box- in hindsite I should have done, so now I am worried that any poision could have leaked out on to the floor and have been walked in to the lounge where the buns are
If you have made it to the end of this post, firstly thankyou. And if you are able to reply please be gentle as I do suffer from a mental health illness, this is not something I am choosing to do or to worry about, I can not help what my brain is telling me, I am also pregnant so my hormones are ALL over the place!
However and I know this is going to make me sound completly crazy...
My OCD is in complete overdrive and I need some reasurance that everything is going to be ok now...
My husband removed the bait box like so...
Wearing one marigold glove he picked up the bait box using the gloved hand and a plastic bag, he picked it up as if picking up dog poo then using his ungloved hand he pulled the bag up over the back of the bait box.
Then he pulled the bag together with his gloved hand, I then asked him to put his glove in the bag with the box so he removed the glove, put it in the bag and then did the bag up with both hands, he then walked from the bathroom through the hall and out the front door to put it straight in the bin.
My OCD is completly attacking me from EVERY angle at the moment since finding this damned box on saturday and I have not stopped cleaning since.
I have cleaned the door frames that hubby touched, cleaned the bathroom floor straight away after he removed the box, all the clothes we were wearing have been put out to wash, I have washed my hair 4 times since removal of the box...
Then the OCD started really attacking and over the course of the next 48 hrs I cleaned all the floors of the flat, the rug in the lounge, completly blitzed the bathroom, have decided to throw away Jimby and Cookies treat jar and get a new one as that one was on the side of the kitchen sink when hubby came back in and washed his hands...
I have also decided today that I shoudl buy new trainers for hubby as I do not want the trainers he wore to remove it in the flat in case they are contaminated- even though they have been in the flat since saturday anyway which is causing me unmentionable anxiety
My concerns are:
1. Could anything have remained on the floor of the bathroom once it had been cleaned?
2. Could any of the poison have leaked out of the bag on the way to the front door?
3. If hubby touched some part of the box without realising like when he puleed the bag over the back of the box with his ungloved hand then touched something else and then the bunnies touched that could it poioson them?
4. Hubby was wearing his slippers when he removed the bait box from the bathroom and at first I did not think too much of it so did not think to wash them straight away but that night Jimby licked his slipper, if anything were on them which was dangerous would what ever was going to happen have happened by now? (That was Saturday evening) I have since washed his slippers.
5. Because our hall way is very narrow and right opposite the bathroom door, shoes are walked in to the hall way, then we walk through the hall way in to the lounge and walk whatever dirt has been brought in by shoes through the flat, could any poision have got on to his shoes when taking the box out and then have been walked in to the lounge? As I did not clean the hall way straight away after removal of the box- in hindsite I should have done, so now I am worried that any poision could have leaked out on to the floor and have been walked in to the lounge where the buns are
If you have made it to the end of this post, firstly thankyou. And if you are able to reply please be gentle as I do suffer from a mental health illness, this is not something I am choosing to do or to worry about, I can not help what my brain is telling me, I am also pregnant so my hormones are ALL over the place!
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