is this a wee moan!!!

Hi Jen

Good moan helps at times just wish my wife agreed with me !! lol

Good advice from Max about the grant - just not sure on the time scales. Quick cheap solution could be one of inflatable ones - not talking if lilo type - the do some with flock covering as an emegency bed for suprise guests, that just hide away.

Think they cost about £10 - £!5 and you can inflate to a firmness to suit yourself. Take care

Hugs

J xx

Hi Jen,

If cant sleep try going on line for a chat, folk in and out all hours, they are from around the world so time lines different. I gave up on trying to sleep normal hours, and as you say the tablets dont work.  I get up do housework etc.  Do asw max has advised and try and get a grant from the macmillan

if you dont ask you dont know.

Not sure if you went on chat last night but went in hoping we could meet up, another day maybe.

Takecare hugs Jan xx

Hi Jen,

     I am finding it hard to get to sleep at the moment...just to show how sad it is..at three this morning I was trying to think of all the states in the US! Well it seemed slightly better than counting bloody sheep! Net result though is I am soo tired. As to food, my appetite has gone and I really don't like the thought of many foods, thankfully I don't feel sick. Oh well only two weeks to go at work til half term, then I think I shall go on sick leave.

Take care, hope you are feeling brighter soon

Kath xx

It depends where you live but around here The British Heart Foundation sell good quality secon-hand beds. Alternatively you can buy 'Memory Foam' mattress toppers which are lovely. I was having trouble sleeping but now I have been prescribed with amatriptelyne (for back pain) I can sleep for England.

Hope you find a solution and have a good long sleep.

KateG

Hi Jen

Dont worry about having a moan,I call that therapy!

I can sympathise with you for the lack of sleep problem, it something that i have had to deal with for the last 10 years, if you are tired and ratty come here and have a good moan you can send it to me if you like and i will see if i can do a better moan than you! Often i dont even know what i am annoyed about, my poor husband doesnt know whether he coming or going sometimes, one minute i can be all loving and affectionate the next i scream at him if he so much as looks at me, tiredness undermines you so much if you add chemo, menopause/pmt, cancer anxiety , financial problems and in your case kids its a wonder we dont all go stark staring mad, mind you , you definitely will if you watch day time telly avoid that like the plague, several hours of that and you lose the will to live!

I think the best advice i have seen on here is to take it one day at a time, a friend of mine who has been through hell with cancer and heart operations , reckons it is absolutely imperative that you give yourself things to look forward to she plans days out

treats and makes goals to work towards, well she had a cancer with a very poor prognosis   that was 7 years ago , lack of sleep saps your energy so maybe you need a different sleeping tablet, i have a thing called stillnot from the doctor, this works by helping you get off to sleep, i have found them effective.Any way Jen moan if you need to but *******to cancer and all its irritations and lets just concentrate on living better and better LOL Lyn