Battle of the Pill Organizers

Finally - SLEEP!! After 2 or 3 days of being awake til 5 or 6 in the morning I had a good, deep sleep last night. I knew “the crash” was coming. You can’t stay on the steroid high forever. Might come in handy for getting house and yardwork done, but definitely not for sleeping. I fell asleep on the couch last night, cat curled up beside me, laptop on my lap, on a website I can’t even recall. At least I wasn’t blogging - I’ve fallen asleep doing that before and find it amusing that every time it happens and I wake up I have endless lines of the letter K. Something like this: kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. Well, it’s exactly like that but it goes on forever and ever. I wonder why THAT finger is the one that pushes on the keyboard when I fall asleep? It’s always the letter K. Weird. But I never claimed to be normal.

Once I got myself into bed I fell to sleep quickly and managed to put in a 12 hour night. I’m guessing the same thing will happen again tonight because I’m so sleep deprived. My body isn’t one that can do without sleep. For the last ten years of this battle I sleep 10-12 hours if possible. Sleep is something we all need desperately for our physical and mental health and I never deny myself. Many days there’s just no reason to get out of bed unless I have to go to the bathroom. Why get out of bed if the cat is stretched out beside you purring while you give him a tummy-rub? I’d rather lay there nice and warm under my flannel sheet listening to the radio and petting the cat. Many times I drift back to sleep and wake an hour (or three) later. Anyone who knows me well knows you can’t call Lisa before noon and expect her to be awake Guess I’m making up for the times I used to get up at 3:15 to go do the morning show.

Today I’m feeling noticeably less energetic and have been suffering with some heartburn. I think I got my system off track by sleeping til 2pm because I didn’t have supper until after 7. I should have eaten much earlier and taken my Ranitidine because that likely would have shut down any heartburn right then and there. I learned my lesson and the extra-strength Tums are getting gobbled up today.

One wacky bright spot in my day came from my friend Trina who read my last blog posting and had a good laugh at my comments about my massive new pill reminder. She has one too and sent me a photo. I immediately grabbed my new “organizer”, took a picture and fired it off to her with a comment that I couldn’t even SEE hers. She sent a message back that I already knew the answer to: I WON. Mine is bigger….and the “Sunday section” isn’t even in it! Now you can see why I feel like an 80 year old…