An 84-year old Brooklyn woman who said she dealt with a bed bug infestation in her apartment for a month and suffered bites all over her body received a visit from the exterminator on Friday, after public housing officials initially told her she would need to wait until next month.

Emma Graham and her daughter, Yvonne Prieste, share a 12th-floor apartment in the Roosevelt Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant and said they struggled with the bugs for weeks.

"I mean, my mom is getting eaten up every day, all day long, and it's heartbreaking to see your mom with red bumps all over her and then they turn black," said Prieste.

""I don't feel well, sitting up in a chair every night trying to sleep. I can't lie down, where am I going to lie?" said Graham.

The New York City Housing Authority told the women an exterminator could not come to their apartment until near the end of September.

Yet on Friday afternoon, a crew did come to Graham's apartment to begin addressing the problem.

The exterminators are set to come back in about 10 days to make another sweep, and the two women are getting rid of their old mattresses and couches.

"We packed up everything and they're spraying. They're vacuuming out first, they said they saw a lot of bed bugs in the box spring in my mom's room and the corners. That's where they saw them," said Prieste.

Other residents in the housing complex have also complained about the bugs, and some say they have been fighting infestations on their own.

"I took care of it. So far, it's been all right," said another 12th-floor resident.

"All over across this city, this building, the building up the block," said another resident of the building.

NYCHA officials said in a statement that it has 175,000 units to administer, and that it normally tries to send someone out within days. Right now, NYCHA has a serious backlog of cases due to the city's recent outbreak.