5 posts tagged “sleep”
I took a huge step this morning and threw mine away. All of my pain medication, pills for sleep, and antidepressants were dumped in the garbage. I've been off all of them for months anyway. I think I was keeping them "just in case," but it's been long enough.
Okay not really, but I can't sleep. For some strange reason, I've had a lot more energy and haven't been able to sleep much at night. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm finally seeing the progress of my back healing. Did I mention that all of my fibromyalgia symptoms went away after my back surgery? I'm almost "normal" again.
I'm excitedly making plans to go back to work. It will still be another couple months before I will physically be able to work again, but it's great to know that it's coming. It's sort of like starting my adult life all over again, and I can choose to be anything I want to be.
Today my entire family slept in ... until 1:30 in the afternoon. That includes two teenagers and two dogs. It has made for a very strange day. It's almost 8:30 p.m. now, and I'm still tired.
My youngest son thinks he should be able to stay up as late as he wants. He's in the "treat me like an adult.. hey, wait, I don't want responsibility" phase.
Because of his Klinefelter syndrome, he takes medicine at night to help him sleep. The stubborn little (bleep) is actually forcing himself to stay awake over two hours after taking his medicine. So every day for the past week, he's been cranky and irritable, and so have the rest of us. Unfortunately I have that mom thing where I can't go to sleep until he does. So we've all been up until about 1 in the morning each night.
Our whole family requires a lot of sleep. I'm talking at least 10 hours or I feel like crap. We normally go to bed around 10.
Last night he was up until after 1 a.m. again, so today he learns a lesson about consequences. I'm not going to wake him up. I hope he sleeps until 4 in the afternoon. He hates sleeping late (insert evil laugh here).
The best part? I get a whole day without a teenager!
When is the last time you stayed up all night?
I'm an old fuddy-duddy now :P The last time I stayed up all night, my son had to have a sleep-deprived EEG. He had a blast.
