Awake and up all night

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Are you having trouble sleeping?

Sleep problems may be caused by how you’re feeling emotionally, or as part of the side effects for cancer treatment. If you find it hard to have a good sleep, you’re not alone. The Online Community is here to support you 24/7. 

“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."
Community member, ‘Pancreatic cancer’ group

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  • Have trouble sleeping and looking for somewhere to talk
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  • Lovely photo Uki.  Julie could print a copy to pin up on the wall of her treatment ward in lieu of a window. xx 

  • Thanks for the lovely photos Uki, the seagull caught my eye xxx

  • Soc had sent it with a Muller Corner for me.

  • My daughter thought the same!! It's a fab idea!! BulbRoflRofl

  • Hello Dingg, The pages do flow thick and fast on here, all to the good as it's therapeutic for one and all. Your recent posts suggest that you have found ways of handling the heart wrenchingly sad roller coaster ride that life has served you in the recent past. You are a remarkably strong lady, even if you do not feel that way at times. 

    Keep posting.  Love, Ray xxx

  •  Joy Good one, Soc! As long as Gully didn't drop it else it'd look like there's some mighty big gulls round there.

    It looks nice and cool though Relaxed️ xxx

  • You can have a mullet corner anytime uki  as soon as I spot a seagull.xxx

  • Evening Gill. I will send one to you by pigeon post a.s.a.p.

  • Lovely post Ray. Dingg will appreciate that.xxx

  • Dingg, in your reply to Gill about 3 pages ago (on my laptop - phones may be different) you were imagining Uki as Daniel Craig and Pippin as the Bond cat. Today, my daughter visited to sort and tidy stuff which had been displaced by decorating and carpet laying activities. She found a plastic folder of photos which had been sent to me about 15 years ago by the son of an aunt who had died (My late Dad's sister). It contained photos from 1945 up to a week before my dad died in 1986, 6 weeks after his retirement. One which caught my eye was of me, aged <2, standing in my cot (or cage!!) holding a toy black cat. I can't recall seeing the photo  before but the toy cat rang a very distant memory from 74 years ago. I wonder what happened to it? Perhaps, being a cat, it found a quieter owner and moved house. I'll ask my 76 yearold Teddy whether he remembers the cat when I go up to bed tonight. xxx