AM I THE ONLY CARER WHO NEVER SLEEPS!!!!!

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Well here i am again at 4.30 in the morning and i can't sleep yet again!! My husband Darryl has terminal small cell cancer and, at the moment is going through a really good phase. Which, i would have thought, would set my mind at rest and enable me to sleep. But no, here i am again having had 2 hrs sleep tonight wide awake with mad thoughts running around my head!! This is driving me crazy and i just seem to be on auto pilot all the time. Darryl is 44 years old and we have been given a prognosis of a 2-3 year life span for him. I can't seem to let go of this thought, and maybe part of me can't sleep because of that, as i feel if i'm asleep i'm wasteing precious time!! Darryl is sound asleep and resting well, and if i stay upstairs next to him listening to his breathing, i keep thinking is this the last time i'll ever hear that and end up getting so uptight and worried that i find it better to just get up again. So i wander round the house do a few chores, have a hot caffiene free drink and will myself to sleep all to no avail i might add!! hahaha surely i'm not the only carer who never sleeps, or am i????? any comments gratefully recieved. Take care my friends and hope your all sleeping well. love and hugs mel xxx
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    Kate you're so sweet, took your time though!! don't keep me in suspenders and tell me your stuff isnt that big a deal so tell whats going on with the little duracell bunny? and how your feeling and hows your dad too? Lots of love, hugs T XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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    Do I Ecckers mind oooheeer i is a northener, i reckon i should be well and truly demoted cos my advice and encouragement means and says bugger all, but my hearts in the right place Teresa , even though I can never find the right words
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    Hi juls

    thankyou for your thoughts and sorry about your husband, here with others (1 great chick, a mother hen and a newly promoted 'surrogate mother hen') you will get a lot of support, love and best wishes teresa xx
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    Alright Teresa You win, heres my news but did warn you babe it aint nothin to cry home about, ha ha

    Well duracell bunny been low and I couldnt sleep so i chatted to anyone last night cos I was so worried, anyways at 5am tjhis morn i compiled a list on who i should ring., I was a woman on a mission babe,so before 9am i had spoken to onco.dietician. consultant sec, consultant, triage nurse, oc, therapist, mac people, physio, district nurses, gp, honestly babe i got where castor oil wouldnt ha ha
    so to cut a long borin story short, mum now has a machine pump feeding her, hurrah , i is now gettin pissed hee hee and mums gettin nourshment as i type to you, yay ,hurrah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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    Dearest Kate (we're the only chickies left now that Karen been promoted!!)

    Im proud to be a chicky with you and dont ever think that your words of advice and encouragement means bugger all because it doesnt, you help me stay up in my woes and Im here to do the same for you same as our 2 mother hens are!! So now please tell me how your mum getting on ? Flowers And Hearts sending you these flowers and hearts (cos I feel sorry for you that you support liverpool but we wont go there!! hah ha) love and hugs honey T XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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    Posting at same time!! it taking me so long dont know why?? XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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    Thanks Twomble
    I am just off to bed - early for a change a I think the dreaded lurgy cold has got me by the throat!! I promise 'im up stairs I wouldn't be late - ooops and so it's good night from me. Sorry to be the party pooper. Thanks for making me welcome.
    Juls

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    Good night and sweet dreams juls, speak soon xx
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    I will always be here babe for all of you, I think you should be promoted too, ha ha , you all keep me sane, well ok sane.. ish. im happy bein a follower, ha ha,i cant begin to tell you all how the three of you keep me goin, i am here for you all too, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I hope you all know that, you know i aint left mums house in 9 weeks so its great to let my hair down, and you say your a hermit Karen? ha ha
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    Kate

    Im so pleased you became a woman on a mission and got to speak to all today well yesterday and at least it takes a bit of pressure off of you with your mum now having the feeding machine, know it not always nice but and not mean it nastily when i say it takes a little bit of pressure off you and you know she getting the nourishment constantly, so what we getting pissed on? Ive had 1 as didnt get home till late and feel quite awake again!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX