A better night, but...

[misterx]

Well, only one incidence last night of Storm waking up in her exorcist dream state. I have to tell you though it's really scary to see her like that. She yells/growls/shrieks everything through clenched and grinding teeth, each reply starting low and winding up to an air-raid-like pitch that sets my hair on end. Her hands are little white-knuckled fists. She can hear you, and answer questions, but she's pissed about it, and the answers are colored by the fact that she's in a situation invisible to the rest of us, with things and people and stuff we can't see. And she makes it clear she doesn't like being there.

Being a parent sucks sometimes. Like when you want to make it stop, and you can't.

House update: We have the final walkthrough on the house this evening. We're supposed to close tomorrow. They haven't told me how much $ I have to bring to the closing yet... I'm betting that they don't realize that my bank doesn't have a branch in their state. And since I have to bring Lorelei to school down in TN first thing in the morning, my Monday is going to be a whole lot of driving. Wheee....

Somebody remind me to pay bills!

Comments

[lilith17.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that Stormy's recovering. Could those dreams be the same thing as night terrors? I thought those happened when kids were a little younger than she is, but I'm not sure.

Good luck with the closing tomorrow. You should call and ask how much $ you need. No one volunteered to tell us until we were in the closing. I guess everyone assumed that we had figured it out, or someone else had informed us. Luckily it was a small enough amount that they would take a personal check instead of requiring a certified one. Our closing wasn't until 5pm, so there's no way we would have been able to get to the bank and get a check from them.


Oh, BTW, you need to pay bills.

[melanie.livejournal.com]

storm had night terrors when she was an infant...this does seem rather similar. she doesn't recognize us and is very scared, and it was the same with night terrors - instead of running to me for comfort back then, she didn't recognize me and would struggle to get away from me and hide.

i hallucinate when i have a fever, and it's very scary. i can understand on some level. i just wish i could make it stop. :(

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I think it's fever dreams, which tend to be pretty bad for me. The poor kid is clearly awash in my genetics so I'm assuming they are bad for her too. I think that the screaming voice may be because of the effort it is taking for her to "break through" from the place she feels like she's in. That's how it is for me when I have a serious fever... I feel like I'm getting sucked into another world and I'm fighting tooth and nail to stay in this one. It's a tremendous effort to open my mouth and make sound come out. My thoughts get separated from my body, and I have to fight with all I have to push my will through the barrier to make it effect my body.

I supposedly have seizures when my fever gets too high. I say supposedly because I don't remember (I'm out of it by then), but I'm told I get delirous and then start thrashing around. Alternately, I just pass out, often to less than wonderful effect. (Last time I almost lost my penis. The time before that, I wonked my head and lay there for two hours unconscious)

RE: the closing, I would call, but they aren't there right now. And, they won't be there Monday morning until I'm already in TN, because I have to have Lorelei to school by 8:15, and it's an hour drive. So Monday is just going to be hectic period.

I remember those

[shirokarasu.livejournal.com]

Must have something to do with being ill like that... BOth of my girls get the "terrors" when they are particularly feverish.. I know the growl-build up-air raid very well. It's scary as hell and it is one of the worst things I can think of to watch..you just can not unbide your hands....my sympathies... oh

you need to pay your bills...*****Reminder*****