Friday, July 6, 2012

nightmares= shitty sleeping pattern.


My sleeping pattern has been greatly altered since I had Carsyn. I used to be able to sleep through anything, now he coughs or sniffs and I’m out of bed checking on him. At first I got ZERO sleep unless my mom took him. Then he got his shunt and things calmed down a bit, but I’m still not getting much sleep at night.

                You see, I have nightmares.  Horrible nightmares. About Carsyn.

                They don’t happen every day,  I’ll guess about 3-4 times a week, and they’re intense. So vivid and real that I wake up, heart racing and scrambled to check on Carsyn.  Sometimes they are just stupid dreams about things that won’t ever possibly happen, Like last night when I dreamt our house didn’t have any walls and a coyote was in Carsyn’s bed trying to take him away.  But there are other dreams I have about things that actually COULD happen.  Those are the ones I can’t forget. Once I have them I stay up the rest of the night watching Carsyn sleep.

                People keep telling me to get night nursing, but the thing is, it won’t change anything. I am up anyway. Even if there was someone here I would still be up. Night nursing won’t help me, leave it alone.

I won’t go to a doctor about this, if I get put on something I won’t be able to get myself up when I need to check on him.  I’m not looking for advice on this. I just needed to get it out.  It didn’t start until last year. All of a sudden I just started having them.

Nightmares suck.




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