OH YE NIGHTS OF LITTLE SLEEP!

I have been having a time of it lately. Getting to sleep and staying asleep are becoming two big issues with me. I used to chalk it up to my meds and maybe in part, I still do. But something is just not right in Slumber Land at Goat’s house.

I have tried foregoing the afternoon naps but that has no effect. It doesn’t seem to matter whether I nap or not. Each night is a repeat of the one before; Edgar Allan Poe/Alice in Wonderland dreams and waking up five and six times during the night. I might get one night out of ten resulting in good, solid restorative sleep.

I have even tried a snack in the middle of the night to relax me. No good. They’re just making me fatter. Warm milk is out of the question; yuck! I can’t take another pill; I’ll be sleeping through the next day and God knows, I don’t have that many left to waste!

I have blamed it on the noisiness of the neighbors but after almost eight years, I should be used to them by now and for the most part, I am.

I have blamed it on the dog since she is a restless sleeper and may be waking me up since she sleeps at the foot of my bed. Or maybe she is restless because I keep waking HER up?? That’s a toss!

My dreams are enough to keep a sane person awake but since I’m a little nuts, that shouldn’t matter. But they ARE getting stranger as time goes by.

Guess I could try to get my internal clock back in sync by staying up all night but then Richard would be telling me that I’m getting nasty again and to get my meds checked, blah, blah, blah. Well, young man, my meds are fine, I’m feeling good and my last blood tests were normal.

There’s just something wrong in Slumber Land and I can’t seem to find out what!