Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Superwoman Does It Again
It's a ragdoll, it's a charwoman, no it's superwoman redirecting anger at being woke up at 3am and not being allowed to go back to sleep until she lifted the mattress off the bed, reattached the headboard to the upper part of the frame and insert the middle rod to raise th bed up and down and...
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Monday, August 4, 2008
A Reversal of Roles
It is amazing how the brain works. I went into shutdown and had to sleep. Richard knew I was too exhausted and had to have down time for my body to recover. He became independant and could get up by himself get food and drink and manage his meds. Meanwhile, I couldn't add 2 and 2 today. I barely...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008
I cannot go on
My body has given up and my soul is weary. I pray for sleep to not wake up for I'm just too too tired. I have no one to call upon they never have the time. My mom would come but she is 82 and in kidney failure, has asthma, anemia, diabetes and a heart defect. She gets so tired these days. She and I...
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Sleep Sweet Sleep
Well, I got to sleep from 12noon to 8:00pm last night while Joe watched Richard. Amazingly Richard did everything for himself, including changing his clothes and taking off his leg bag for his foley and changing out his leg bag for his foly bag. He sat up all day and didn't take a nap. By the time I...
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
It Was Nice While It Lasted
Does anyone really need more than 3 hours sleep? We've been up since 1:30am. I tried to get back to sleep but just as I got relaxed, he would yell out. By 5:00 I had showered, change the sheets, and made him coffee. I finally got to sleep from 5:30 until 6:30 and was woke up with Richard yelling for...
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