I am Shelby of the vampire hours. So…now that I CAN sleep, I CAN’T sleep. Suckage!
The problem here is that for some reason, PAIN gets worse at night. How does it know? How does it know to hurt? if I locked myself in a room and didn’t let light in, my pain would still get worse at night. Why is this? What if I travel across a few time zones? I’ll bet it would still hurt more at night.
So, since it hurts more at night, I don’t sleep so well. Since I do don’t sleep so well at night, I sleep really well during the day. Since I nap during the day, I don’t sleep well at night…I think I see a pattern. So I tried some synthetic intervention techniques. Mostly those sleeping pills I thought I’d never need again. I started with the OTC ones…nope. So then I did the Ambien CR. Yep. But I shouldn’t need those all night, so I would like to try the plain Ambien 5mg so it just gets me to sleep and helps me reset my little messy clock…
Problem: My insurance doesn’t cover Ambien in small doses, only the big fat CR double coated ones. Gr. So now I wait for the doctor/insurance/pharmacy/me dance and in the meantime, it’s 4:35am, my teeth hurt, I’m not feeling tired even though I did not allow myself a nap today AND I walked a bunch (went in search of my favorite factoid-sharing Border’s employee – alas he was not there) AND I played Wii tennis, baseball and bowling (left handed bowling too!). Whaa. Want some cheese with that wine?
mmm. Cheese.
I love cheese.
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