We're getting to the sleep dysfunction part of the story. Bedtime rolled around, and I decided to read in bed. One story concerns a woman who finds a tiny mite crawling on her arm. Her doctor confirms that the mite is a body louse and prescribes harsh medicine and a strict regimen of washing her clothes, bed covers and rugs in powerful chemicals. Except before the woman can wash the first towel, she discovers that one of her laying hens is sick.
Close examination reveals the hen to be infested with lice.
Just covered up by lice. Millions of blood-sucking little bugs. The story ends when she chops off the hen's head. I was tired when I got to the head-chopping scene. I turned out the light.