AWAKE.........

LondonLass, I never try to sleep before 12.20 to 1, when I'm really tired nd hope I don'wake up rill morning, I usually do to go to the loo., and have difficulty getting back to sleep,again as I have woken myself up too much. I take a sleeping pill at night,. Would hardly get any at all without the pill.  Sleepy now, can yiu tell,by all the mistakes. So many

lstupid symptoms keep me awake, pill just sends me off until I stagger to the bathroom xxx

Glad the sleeping pill is helping you sleep seaspirit44 but hardly ideal. I hate it when we cant sleep or even if we keep waking in the night. I try oh i try at times to annoy the insomnia by being stubborn by keeping my eyes closed and at least resting. Oh LondonLass i wish you could get some good sleep.

The sleep gremlins are mischievous amd annoying.

They seat there laughing, very cheeky.

They incircle us to stop our sleep angels from calming us, because calm is our friend.

imagine the sounds of calm and love, because love is stronger.

But the sleep gremlins sometimes over power it,

filling it with doubt and pain, pain is not our friend.

we have to be stronger than pain, but this is not so easily done.

Life is never easy, it becomes our greatest battle.

A battle we have to overcome, because when we are strong we can overcome.

Strength is a powerful friend, but one that sometimes leaves us. 

But its always there, because strength is love.

And love is hope. 

Hope is very powerful, it overcomes all doubts.

But its hard to find it in all the fog,

because it hides so well,  its not so easy to find.

But when we find it, we are stronger.

Because strength is always our love and protector.

Remember positive thoughts because they are stronger.

But being positive is hard and eludes us at time, and fear and doubts come flooding in..

But support is always there, trying hard to keep us positive.

Together we are stronger,.

Sleep is our protector  a strength that  overcome all. but sometimes it needs a helping hand.

Because sleep is sometimes hard to find.

So give our sleep angels a chance and stop the gremlins in their track!

Just wanted to send some positive thoughts and encouragement for all struggling to sleep. 

Hope EVERYONE has now........

Dropped Off!!

I had a couple of hours but will try and have a few more! Love you all xxxxx

I empathise with not being able to sleep. I used to sleep 8 hours every night with no problem but that ended when I was nursing my husband through the last months of his life. He needed attention every two hours through the night and I was happy to do whatever I could to help him.  Two and a half years on I still wake up every two hours and sometimes can’t get back to sleep. 

My no. 1 strategy is not to let it worry me. That sounds flippant but I just feel that worrying about it makes it worse. 

I listen to a free podcast called Tracks to Relax and it does help me to drop off. If that doesn’t work I do the “relax one part of my body at a time starting with the feet”  technique. Sometimes nothing seems to work and I get up and warm some milk go back to bed and start all over again. 

Hugs to everyone who suffers sleep deprivation xxx

LinDee

Love and hugs Jenny xx

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Good Morning, Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes.

I had a lovely day with the family and dil cooked a gorgeous Thai meal with loads of sides. I was run ragged and stuffed. It's not finished though.... today other granny is taking me for afternoon tea at the patisserie, so HAVE to eat loads of cakes, it would be rude not to. Then we're off to see Titanic Dance. Story of the titanic but done by Irish dancers, like Lord of the Dance....really can't wait for that.

Not felt too well last week or so hence my absence, back on the waiting train I'm afraid for some tests.Couldn't get appt with gp as not registered so ended up having to phone old bc nurse who told me to go to A+E, put it off for a couple of days but then in so much pain had to go, so now the wait again.

Anyway, hope everyone gets good results from their scans etc and hope you're out of hospital now?

Must go and try to make myself look gorgeous, well half decent, catch you all later have a good day as best you can.

xx

Happy birthday. Hope it's all you wish.

toxophilite Bad news re the car crash. But your holiday sounds lovely - it'll be good for you to spend some time with family. I loved Cape Town and surrounds but didn't like Jo'burg at all. Pretoria was OK but to me it was just like home - very similar city to Canberra, although we don't have either the poverty or the racial issues of course.

LondonLass Hope you got some sleep. If not, I prescribe some weekend naps. 

I'm off to Vietnam next Wednesday so I don't expect I'll be around much. No need to worry about me - I'll either be lounging by the pool or out eating the fab street food. 

Hugs to all and have a great weekend. 

Belated birthday wishes

how are you... are you home yet?

toxophilite and Kacang  ... your holidays sound fab ... looking forward to hearing about them

Optimistic hope you continued to have good days out

Not sleeping  sounds a real bummer LondonLass 

hugs to all xx

Kacang

I know toxophilites is later …. sooooo jealous of you both.

I've had a brilliant day. Believe it or not we had to get a doggy bag for the cakes we couldn't finish! There were 4 types of finger sandwiches, quiches, scones, cream and jam and then an assortment of 8 cream cakes... well you can only stuff so much down. Then off to the theatre, a cheeky V+T before we went in and then all I can say is Fabulous, Fabulous, oh and Brilliant. If anyone gets the chance to see Titanic Dance I highly recommend it. My feet were tapping, hands clapping and when it ended I jumped up cheering and clapping … did I mention it was brilliant? Those Irish dancers have legs and feet made of jelly. Then we had to have another cheeky V+T to calm down...mmmmph.

xx

, just read your profile. You are an inspiration xxxxx