That's terrible. I'm sorry that happened in your dreams at all.
Your familiars, that's ... got to be a bit of a comfort, actually.
When I feed, if I don't sever the spinal column after I've done so, the person I feed from will come back as a vampire within about twelve hours. A man who took after me in the dreams broke both of his legs and one arm from a fall and he still came to try to harm me.