The Day After Part X

Nurse Nancy Bauer (JoBeth Williams) has a meaningful exchange with Dr. Oakes. The scene immediately afterward, of the patient abruptly sitting up in bed screaming, was excised fromt he original airing. Denise Dahlberg begins to suffer radiation sickness induced delirium. Situation within the hospital has begun to deteriorate.

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• Nuclear
• war

[BlackWolf6507]

Radiation sickness does not induce delirium. Dehydration and shock, however, can.

[lothartheterrible]

@BlackWolf6507 Radiation poisoning inhibits circulation, which can limit the oxygen to the brain and therefore induce delirium. So yes, it can.

[supercj12]

@BlackWolf6507 Dont forget clusterfobia, after days in the same place, a person can become delirious because of it.

[lothartheterrible]

@supercj12 Or "claustrophobia", a very similar condition...

[lothartheterrible]

@kc5cxu What, someone sitting screaming after waking from a nightmare? I did it myself, November 3, 2004 when I realized we'd re-elected George W. Bush. I haven't been right in the head since.

[whiskerchild]

I hate that girl... everyone's entitled to their little temper tantrum.

[sinusbradycardia]

@lothartheterrible I could look this up, but exactly how does RP inhibit circulation? 1st thing that comes to mind is effects on pumping efficiency of the heart or some how has an effect on the vascular system- - severe vasoconstriction. I have witness the effects of heat failure and seen delirium induced from that. A great friend of our family and WW2 vet died from CHF. It was tough at the end because he would be talking about things that weren't there, like a ladder.

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@rayandreina Or they would just...ehm...hibernate or fall into anabiosis for the cold time. Or their eggs wouldn't be destroyed, even if they would themselves. But any aftermath of nuclear war, even without any climate change, would definitely be very unpleasant for humans, yes.

[rayandreina]

@NotOnlySelfLover Well, they would probably just instinctively go underneath to some place where it's warm (they feed on garbage, anyway), coming out when it's warmer outside. In any event, it would be very unpleasant for us humans!

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@rayandreina Well, then there is something I don't know about cockroaches. Because the adult cockroaches I have seen died when exposed to subfreezing temperatures.

[rayandreina]

@NotOnlySelfLover You'd better believe they will! -- the mice, rats, and cockroaches, anyway. In fact, the issue of cockroaches surviving is literally as guaranteed as the sun rising tomorrow in the east; and setting in the west.

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@rayandreina will they survive the frost of nuclear winter?

[rayandreina]

Yes, cockroaches are the only guaranteed survivors of a full-scale nuclear war -- along with mice, rats, flies, mosquitoes, fleas, etc.

[siralucard19]

"All it take is one bad day to reduce the sanest man to lunacy"

The Joker - The Killing Joke

"When the chips are down, these "civilized people", they'll eat each other."

The Joker - The Dark Knight