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Did I sleep too much?

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I was so tired yesterday, because I didn’t get much sleep the night before, that I actually fell asleep on the couch at about 9:30 in the evening!

I remember waking up again around 12:30 am when my husband was going to bed, but I think I fell asleep again while trying to watch TV within half an hour. I slept until 6 a.m., stayed up for a bit doing a few things on the computer and then went back to bed, my real bed this time, by 8:30 am.

I still managed to sleep for another two hours!

I must have needed sleep! Either that or my illness is about to worsen. Unfortunately I’m afraid it’s the latter.

I’ve been up for about two hours and already I’m feeling sleepy again. This can’t be good.

I’m someone who, for most of my life, has only needed five or six hours of sleep at the most. Last night I had at least 10 hours of sleep! I shouldn’t be tired. Somethings up.

I am glad that I managed to get a good sleep. I know I needed it. It’s just worrisome that I’m still so tired.





Sleepless in T.O.

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I just had the worst night and day that I’ve had in a long long time. I never went to bed last night. I was just in too much pain.

Being in pain through the night sucks. It’s a regular occurrence.

I ended up staying up trying to get a few things done on the computer, almost caught up with my email and read a forum that I visit daily for a few hours.

When I did finally try to go to bed I lay in bed in a semi-state of sleep. You know when you are hovering at the point of just about falling asleep but you are still very much aware of time passing and of what might be going on around you. You know, things like the phone ringing about 6 different times, big noisy trucks rumbling by outside and so on?

It wasn’t until maybe 2:30 pm that I finally fell asleep and of course at 2:45 pm my husband called from work to tell me something. He couldn’t get me so he called four times in a row before I finally realized whoever was calling wasn’t giving up. So I got up to answer the phone and told him what was going on.

Now it’s a bit after 6 and I’m up. As I should be … but man, I didn’t really get any sleep.

Yours truly, sleepless in Toronto

Just thinking about the pain docs I used to work for …

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When I first started my nursing career I worked with a number of doctors and nurses in a pain clinic. We did nerve block treatments locally and under general anesthesia to relieve peoples chronic pain. It really worked for some of the patients, while for others it only worked until the numbing medications that we used wore off.

Anyway … we had a very strange assortment of doctors. Most were anesthesiologists and had worked in major hospitals in the past but for some reason they now worked in this pain clinic for the most part on a full time basis. I always wondered why there were there since at the time, and I guess currently, we had a major shortage of anesthesiologists in the hospitals.

I often wondered if they’d done something wrong in the hospitals where they had worked before and got fired? Well, I didn’t wonder if that were true for all of them, but some … yeah .. they didn’t really even belong in the pain clinic.

I got thinking about these doctors because I saw this online ad for Dr. Larry Shapiro. It’s for hair transplants in Florida. One of the doctors I worked with was a Dr. Shapiro but as far as I know he never did hair transplants! However, the founder and owner of the clinic did do hair transplants for some time. Can you see how I ended up thinking about the doctors I used to work with at the clinic?

I wonder what happened to them?

I worked there for almost 10 years and I loved my job but it was a horrible place to work. The manager was a true bitch. She took turns picking on different nurses each day of the week. I’m sure it made her day if she could make us cry. Yeah that’s how bad she was. So I don’t have fond memories of the place, even though I really really liked my job.

Did you ever work in a place where one person caused you and perhaps several of your co-workers grief every day?

I need a weeks worth of sleep

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Honest. My Green Thumb posts are coming. They are!! I just had to get a few things done on my sites first.

I’ve been kind of out of it today. Trying to get some work done but not really being very productive. I sure hope that I start feeling better tomorrow. I think it might be a very busy week for me.

I’m just going to do a bit more work and then try to get to bed for a good sleep. Perhaps if I get a little more sleep than I’ve been getting lately I’ll hold up a bit better throughout the day.

It’s awful feeling like you are in a fog, all the while being in pain.

I think what I really need to do is sleep for a week solid. Nothing but sleep. Perhaps getting that much sleep would reset my pain receptors and turn around this horrible crohn’s flare? I’m willing to try it!

If anyone knows what the potion was that sleeping beauty was given give me the recipe!

Stupid karaoke neighbors

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I’m so angry right now.

My karaoke neighbors are at it again!

My neighbors are having a party. That’s fine. We have parties too.

My neighbors are having a barbecue. Fine, we have them too.

The adults are outside and the kids, or mostly kids, are inside. Guess what they are doing? They’ve turned their Karaoke machine up full blast, which I swear the speakers of face our house walls, and they are singing the most gawd awful songs I’ve ever heard.

My house is vibrating. I’m vibrating I’m so angry.

I’ve phoned the house to ask them to turn it down but no one answers. They probably can’t hear the phone. I’ve called out to the adults outside to ask them to turn it down but they can’t hear me either and I’m feeling way to ill to wander into their yard. They’ll only offer me food anyway if I go over and ignore my pleas.

I’m feeling ill and I’ve been working hard to get a bunch of articles done all day. This is extremely distracting because it’s so loud it’s like they’re in my living room.

Oh yeah. I finished my articles for one site and just tried to hand them in right now. They were due on June 9th. No time is listed at all in the campaign offers. Well guess what. They must have gotten canceled. I’m assuming I went over the time limit, but if they don’t give me anything that says what time they are due I assume that they are due by midnight. Right?

Shouldn’t they have sent an email or something with a time limit? I know I’ve gotten those in the past on offers … but campaigns? Either way – it only said June 9th – no time was written down or counting down … so now I’m ticked.

I put in a support ticket, but I’ll bet there’s nothing they can do about it now. I’ll bet as soon as they got canceled by the system they went back into the campaign marketplace. So, if anyone just got a nice $100 or $25 offer … well that was mine!

!@!@$#%$^&^**&((%&%^$#$@!

This is how neighbors end up feuding or worse.

I don’t think the police can do much about loud noise at 9 pm but believe me … at 11 pm or 11:30 whichever the law states that noise must be reduced … if they haven’t stopped I’ll be calling in a complaint.

Of course I’ll have probably pulled out all my hair by that point too.

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