Hilarious story. And definitely relate to an unusual anxiety about getting a bed bug infection (for me this is a type of catastrophic thinking - CBT works quite well). I have a routine that I follow when I check into a hotel consisting of examining mattress seams for bedbugs and hunting for hidden cameras (smoke detectors, outlets, lamps, etc.)

Surprisingly, I've never found a bedbug or hidden camera.

I did once find a 6-inch centipede in my kids' bathroom on the 10th floor of a hotel property on Maui.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244901/

"Bites from centipedes can cause extreme pain, edema, erythema and other localized symptoms as well as anxiety and panic."