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[ronott1]

Wow! My oldest grandson had the night terrors! Those are very difficult to deal with! I have never heard of anyone else that had to deal with them.

It was horrible. We were so rattled that we did not sleep much the first night. The Toddler was fresh and perky in the morning.

From reading up on Night Terrors, it was all very normal for them. She wound up having several but out grew them and is fine now.

 

[vehve]

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I knew there were a lot more younger than me on here...

I'm not even thirty yet... But I like to complain, and I like coffeecake, so I think I'm sort of like a grumpy old man. Haven't tried bingo yet though.

 

[ronott1]

Im 39 and lurking....under beds..with spiders....i have a cousin who likes a closet. Hes a sharp dresser tho

 

[Peep_Show]

Spooks Spectacular (Saturday nights) was a favorite of my sister and mine. We were so young and my parents rarely let us stay up for it.

Twilight Zone was a good one too.

Those in the San Francisco Bay Area probably remember Bob Wilkens and "Creature Features." I had a monster-fascinated kid I babysat and if it was a Saturday night, well, we were all set!

They were the first ones to show "Night of the Living Dead" on TV and that was the first horror movie that got to me...all that slurping.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: That is great! My grandson does not have them any longer but now he has Anxiety disorder and panic attacks and he is only 19. But the Anxiety and panic attacks runs in the family.

 

[ronott1]

Those in the San Francisco Bay Area probably remember Bob Wilkens and "Creature Features." I had a monster-fascinated kid I babysat and if it was a Saturday night, well, we were all set!

They were the first ones to show "Night of the Living Dead" on TV and that was the first horror movie that got to me...all that slurping.

We would see him on Cable when visiting my cousins in Chico, California. There were only 3 stations up there so the Cable channels included Bay Area Stations.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Im 39 and lurking....under beds..with spiders....i have a cousin who likes a closet. Hes a sharp dresser tho

You are too much fun to banish.

Oh, I like the original Halloween and Jaws. I love disaster movies, Towering Inferno really rocks! I have one called Razorback and I don't know if it is from Australia or if it was produced in Australia but it is a real good one too. Not all of it but the main plot. I have not seen a Saw movie and don't want to, the previews were enough. I like to watch Shark movies too although some are just plain dumb. If I am sitting and crocheting and only using half my brain for my work, I will watch dumb movies one after the other. I like horror and disaster movies but too much gore turns me off. Those Jeepers Creepers movies shouldn't have hit the light of day.

Jaws, and natural disaster movies. Independence Day, Deep Impact, Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon,

I'm not even thirty yet... But I like to complain, and I like coffeecake, so I think I'm sort of like a grumpy old man. Haven't tried bingo yet though.

You're like a fun old man too.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: My son had night terrors, mostly when he was over tired when I finally got him to sleep. I could just about predict them. As upsetting as it was to listen to him screaming, there was a certain flatness to it that indicated that he wasn't really connected . . . so I knew he wasn't really feeling it.

Im 39 and lurking....under beds..with spiders....i have a cousin who likes a closet. Hes a sharp dresser tho

I think I've bumped into him a time or two. He can be a real pain!

 

[Peep_Show]

Yes, he was so funny. Stopping someone on the corner and asking for directions or something. Same thing with Stephen King. He always has a small bit part in his movies. The most I saw him was in the mini series "The Stand" My absolute favorite of all his works.

A lot of people discount Stephen King, but his stuff can be very thought-provoking. Unfortunately, I picked up "The Stand" to read one night in college when a cold with drippy nose was keeping me awake.... Needless to say, I didn't sleep a wink and just kept reading for a day and a half.

(For those of you that don't remember or didn't read it, it's an apocalyptic story whose vector starts with the sniffles)


I agree about modern horror movies being about the gore quotient, but I still watch them. Thought "Hostel" probably wrecked the tourism industry for Slovakia. One of the silliest I saw (and darned if I can remember the title) was a foreign film about killer mutant sheep. It was just hokey through and through when it could've been so much fun (like "End of the World" about a bad pub crawl which really was kind of amusing in the long run)

 

[vehve]

OK. Not a lesson learned but a reinforcement of what I already knew. If your chickens get sick but don't have any real discernible symptoms to lead you to a real diagnosis, don't start worming and feeding antibiotics.
I thought I had a few chickens that had a bad case of worms. Rather than start worming them, I had a fecal sample read. They had no worms but a bacterial disease that tetracycline cured.

This time, rather than worm or pumping antibiotics, I gave up a sacrificial bird that I had planned on culling anyway. I got a call from the doctor just now. He said it was wasting away and had a lot of trapped fluid. Preliminary diagnosis is carcinomatosis. They still have some microscopic work to do for the final report but the bird had cancer. Any guesswork treatment wouldn't have done anything and prolonged her suffering.
Total cost for lab work is about $55. Well worth the cost to know exactly what was wrong.

I asked about possible causes like environmental, nutritional, etc.. He said there's no way of knowing and that those are possibilities but some in depth study done in Israel pointed to a retro-virus as being one possible initial cause.


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Shame about the chicken, but it brings some comfort to know you did the right thing, and it's nice to not have to worry about what caused it.

*Edit*And thanks