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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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It has been very very very very hot in pontypool have had a job to breathe all night but the good thing is i don't have to work yesterday and today and tomorrow i hope what i mean by work is since i finished work on ill health at 60 from cancer problems i do the school run as my gran daughter has bad anxiety so i pick her up and i have another 16 grandchildren so first time i picked her up i had a parking fine outside the school £75 pounds welcome to the school run Steve
Funny story about bedroom windows. My son in law to be was sleeping over with my eldest downstairs on an airbed. Suddenly me and OH heard a huge crash and thought we had burglars. It was a hot night and I hadn't got anything on. After a little while we saw a lights and noise in the garden. I opened the upstairs bedroom window to see what the hell was going on to find a police man and woman shining a torch up at me whilst I was in the nude. Evidently my future son in law had had a nightmare where he thought he was in a burning building, got up and jumped out the dash window, which was closed, smashing it, then climbing back into the living room. A neighbour had heard the noise and called the police. Luckily he only had a few cuts. What the police must have thought. A man smashing through a living room window and another man naked at the bedroom window.
I hope your neighbours didn't see the pair of you hanging out of the windows - they might have thought you'd both agreed on a pact to escape the heat!
There was no-one to be seen, it was very quiet.
This morning I've had the front door open for a bit of breeze and we had a feline visitor, next door's ginger puss, he was meowing very loudly at me
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