It was 1:30 a.m., and I was awake worrying about…things. You know how it is, because you have your own stuff on your mind this week that keeps making your shoulders sag and your sighs loud. I got out of bed, to move around and try to get my thoughts going in a different direction,…
On Wednesday I woke up at my normal 3:00 a.m. Wrote a blog post. And then stretched out on the couch downstairs to go back to sleep for a few hours, like I do most nights of the week. Except I could not go back to sleep. And on this particular Wednesday I was going…
We sat through all those classes, and then I slept through her birth. That little bit of Demerol knocked me out, and all that practice breathing was a waste. I was quite awake for the boy’s birth, though. Then I understood why, with such hard-hitting pain, people had to give me instructions on how to…
For 13 years now I have awakened around 3:00 in the morning with insomnia. Wide awake, I have to get up and move around for an hour or two before I can relax enough to go back to sleep. Lately I’ve had a new problem develop of not being able to go to sleep if…
This post is a shout-out to my precious grandma friend who has been in rehab for more days than she can count. Diabetic and with recent leg amputation and congestive heart failure, your nights have lasted for what seem like 36 hours, as you try to catch your breath and get comfortable in bed. You told…
I was awake at 1:45 a.m., barely three hours into my night of sleep. Thinking. I wonder if that Spanish website will work. I’ll be back to square one if it doesn’t. Need to get the truck oil changed in Whitefish, but that will take two hours –can I afford two hours today? Should I…
Years ago, when my kids were still young, insomnia introduced itself to me. I used to sleep solid all night, and then one night I woke up early, about the time bakers are waking up to get doughnuts going, and couldn’t go back to sleep. Insomnia became a regular part of my life. It wasn’t…
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