Full Time Care

Woo, my body clock is really in a mess. My partner’s having some weird sleeping problems, where she wakes up at odd hours, can’t sleep when she needs to and feels tired when she shouldn’t: I’m kind of caught up in it all and it’s starting to play havoc with my brain.

For example, last night I was sitting here writing a couple of things over on HubPages. It gets to around 11 p.m. and she wakes up! So we wander downstairs and sit and chat for a while; she’s pretty certain she’s slept enough and will be up for most of the night. After about two hours, she’s suddenly tired again, so goes off to bed to sleep for the night - it’s now 1 a.m.

I go off to sleep as well. But of course, she’s slept more than me and wakes up at 7 a.m. feeling twitchy and nervous. I get up again and make some breakfast and so on. I’m now absolutely shattered with the ups-and-downs. My brain feels like it’s wrapped in cotton wool. Don’t get me wrong - I wouldn’t do things any other way and I don’t mind: it just feels weird!

And what happens after about an hour this morning? Yup. She feels tired again and goes off to sleep. I don’t get it - she’s actually this tired. I mean, her eyes are closing on their own! Given how much coffee she drinks in the morning, I wouldn’t have thought it possible. Something’s very odd here.