Friday, January 13, 2012

Sleep deprivation is not good or appealing to anyone...

How do you sleep?
I know, none of my business, but I don’t mean it like it sounds… It’s not as if I would care if you sleep in the buff or altogether or whatever the new savvy name is called or even with whom…Sillies, I mean how well, you know through the night or staccato, getting up and down ‘all night long’, hmm, nice tune, yep! Or are you one of those rarities in the world where you drop like a rock and sleep like a log? Or even as they say like a baby, where you roll all over the bed like you’re the only one there and the heck with the spouse, dog or cat or other pet/child critter. Or when in your childhood perhaps one of your siblings sneaking in due to stormy noises fear or just being cold, to steal a blanket or two! You, lucky stiff!
And I mean that in only the nicest of ways, but really you can rack that up to pure jealousy on my part.
Of course I am not proud of that.
But when you hit the metaphorical sack at a decent hour for any adult; that which I think of as being between ten and midnight, you should have the ability to sleep through the night, hmm?
Not me, nope, never happen, not in my near or distant future, darn!
I start out with the best of intentions, proper temperature in the room and nightwear according to that too, and snuggle with the pillows being just right blanket comforter or what-have-you, since Hubby is still up hours after I retire, so pillows are good!
Any-who, my mind doesn’t shut down and you would think with my capability of expelling much unnecessary unworthy unwelcomed uninformative spillage here night after night as a wonderfully familiar waste depository!
KIDDING! Boy, you’re easy!

And so I awoke around half past David Letterman and well before the start of Craig Ferguson; for non-late night TV watchers between twelve thirty and one A.M.
And you know, as we all do, DO NOT TURN THE TV OR COMPUTER BACK ON ONCE IN BED OR PACING OUT OF IT!
But, darn it Mom or Dad or whomever might have been the one to scold you for such things if they were around when you were a kid, but in my age bracket, nope to us they were just science fiction!
Now, as a so-called grownup, with legitimate pain and sleep issues they are middle of the night, extreme early morning, technological companions, hmm?
Brain worries, some may agree rightfully so and pain from my neck, cervical stenosis, and no I do not wear my natty pirate’s patch to sleep over my vitreous hemorrhage or my soft cervical collar nattily on my neck either, both too cumbersome and the collar, I think, could be dangerous, but who knows…
And so, by this hour hubby is asleep in bed, and I am the night kitten slinking about the house. With my health protective dressings, patch and collar, I escape to a room far, far, away from noise detection and warm up this techno marvel, computer, and the boob tube, TV.
With what I am going through right now I will have to think of a better euphemism for the TV, ha!
True I thought of my plan of attack since the TV did not prove to be the distraction that it should or could have become in the wee hours of the night.
Today was a futile talk-a-thon and not getting anywhere that I wanted to be, with an appointment for my biopsy! This weekend here in our state again is a holiday weekend with many offices closed Monday as they so rightfully should be for Reverend Martin Luther King’s birthday.
And so I am in a hold mode, but I did make enough calls to get the word out and become…annoying to some but not to all… a few were so sympathetic we cried together over my dilemma, complete strangers mind you, who also said that to call them back even if just to talk...WOW! What a wonderful world, hmm.

On that upbeat note, sort of, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to kindly ask you to count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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