Anyone up in the wee small hours of Christmas Eve??

[imaderrygirl]

Not the Christmas Eve I hoped for.
Sitting on DS(17)'s floor - he went out last night to a 'gathering' of 4 or 5 friends - obviously badly misjudged his alcohol intake. DD went to collect him at midnight and then phoned us distraught - he was passed out on the bathroom floor where it turned out he had been for 2 hours; he had been very sick and was freezing cold. DH and I went over there and it took 2 of us to get him onto his feet and out to the car. Made a judgement call that he didn't need hospital but put him to bed in the recovery position, brought his body temp up and put a very large bucket next to him. I've stayed awake by him just in case and I'm glad I did - he was awake again at 3.45 vomiting but barely conscious.

This is insanely out of character - he's never ever done it before and is usually Mr Conscientious. We'll be having a serious conversation tomorrow when he's in a fit state.

I sent DH to bed because he's done a 7hr round trip today to see MIL who is in the final stages of dementia. He was worn out before this drama even unfolded.

Poor old DD has work at 9am tomorrow.

I have about a billion Christmas Eve jobs to do before all the extended family arrive for Christmas. Not relishing the prospect on zero sleep.

It is one bloody thing after another.

What a drama for you all.

We had similar one evening when the phone woke us up at 1am. It was the emergency station in Broad Street, Birmingham (the nightclub area). They had our vey drunk DS17 who’d just about managed to bring up our number on his phone. He’d resisted giving them his phone number because he kept saying ‘but my Dad will kill me’. His Dad went straight out to fetch him while I stayed awake phoning him every 5 minutes to reassure him his Dad was on the way and wouldn’t be angry. They arrived back at 4am He was mortified the next day when he finally woke up.

We had never seen him drunk before and it never happened again. So thankful to those ambulance stations in nightclub areas!

You’re great parents.

Oh god, me too.

I'm not even stressed, I don't have any Christmas tasks to do (DP has catered for his family coming today, we're going to my mums for the day itself and I've already done a much riding a I'm going to do and wrapped all the gifts amazingly) so really don't know why I'm awake and have been since 2am, but such is life. I'll grab a nap before the outlaws arrive!

much sympathy OP. cut yourself some slack once daylight arrives. you do not need to do all the things before extended family arrive. it's still christmas whatever you end up eating etc. if something is genuinely important then it can probably be delegated to a member of the extended family. if it can't be delegated then reconsider whether its really worth the effort and be kind to yourself, you are going to need a nap.

DS will hopefully find this to be an educational experience and will resolve not to risk this happening again.

I am awake because there are slightly more people in this house than will comfortably fit and the stress and overcrowding is giving me insomnia. heigh ho.

We've been up since 2:40.
We've all been poorly and not sleeping well but this time it's because my autistic son is sooo excited for Santa coming he just can't sleep 😴

I’m awake because I have had the virus that’s doing the rounds , not covid though , and gave the post viral cough

I had a lovely day though , both DC ( 25 & 28 )home for Christmas ( so they immediately reverted to being annoying toddlers )

We went out for dinner , DD and I are planning a shopping trip in the morning , DS and DH will be going out for a walk

Yep , been there too with the drunken , vomiting teens ( now they drink Coke ….one Coke Zero , one Coca Cola … see they can’t even agree on that ! )

Post covid chest infection, so coughing and wheezing. Been up since 2:30, decamped to dd room (she is in ours) and have been awake ever since. I’m shattered and utterly fed up because I know I have so much to do but feel too pants to do any of it.

Did the 3am baby feed, but unusually it’s kept me awake even though 6mo is back asleep… just killing time till either 8 yo wakes me or I get back to sleep… which ever comes first! I’m quite excited for Christmas this year but all set for it now so I’m actually ahead of myself.

Ive helped younger siblings in your ds place, he may well have pleaded with friends not to tell you how bad he’d gotten or wanted to “grass” him up, kids don’t have the foresight we do as adults/parents, but if memory serves they feel rancid for half a day then suddenly spring to life again, ah youth. Uni will be the making of him, best years of my life and made me an adult.

I'm usually awake at some point during the night. It's unusual if I sleep all night.

Dh went to his office party yesterday so he went home as v drunk and didn't want to be snoring on me.

Dc and I are in our air b&b rental for Christmas - the most gorgeous, enormous house I have ever stayed in. So I'm awake listening to unfamiliar sounds, but happy too!

My shopping delivery was missing key items so I have to get those tomorrow but otherwise I am pretty organised.

Moving house on 27/28th but that is another stress level 😂

Bloody teens...
mine is supposedly nearly home. I've been awake since 3 waiting for him to get in
Don't give it a thought when he's at Uni

OP - you sure it's just alcohol? He hasn't taken anything or been spiked? (In which case, thank goodness he's been sick)

Is it worth waking him, to check how he is?

Have covid and feeling awful headache and ear pain temperture cough and just blah

I’m on my break on nightshift, DH was out last night and texted at 12.30 not making much sense but I’ll be throwing him out of bed at 8 am so I can get a couple of hours before the Christmas Eve madness. I hope your DS comes round soon with nothing more than a headache and some embarrassment, I’m not looking forward to this in a few years time and if karma exists I’m in for a rough ride after my teenage antics!

Night shift be glad when it is over and I can go to bed.

Looks like someone is going to feel sorry for himself when he wakes up.

Been awake with my 21 month old since 2am, he woke himself coughing and has only just gone back down curled up in between my legs. I'm exhausted but wired and my 13week old will be awake shortly for a feed so don't see the point in trying to sleep 🙈

How many people do this but don't have parents to get them home safe and look after them. Such amazing parenting to me x

Up with baby at 4:30 and now can’t get back to sleep; too many thoughts whizzing round! Feeling stressed about getting to family tomorrow, baby has been really ill with one of these nasty colds that is going round for over a week and is also teething, poor little sausage , DH has man flu (and has therefore been zero help) I don’t feel that great myself and DH and I seem to be arguing all the time at the moment. Plus once Christmas is over so is my May leave which I’m also struggling with! On the plus side baby slept from around 10pm to 4:30am in one go which is the longest block we’ve had for MONTHS, hooray, and I’ve even managed to out her back down in her cot within half an hour which is unheard of recently! We’ve been on hourly get ups recently and feeding through the night and I’ve spend most nights in the nursery.

Hope your son is Ok, I definitely remember doing the same when I was that age and my poor brother having to pick me up… one of my friends had to carry me out to his car. Sure it will seem no time at all until baby is doing similar to me! It does sound like you are lovely parents and very supportive/ understanding.

So sorry OP & like pps have said, I would be extremely upset with your DS’ friends! Hope you manage to get some rest. Also hope everyone who is poorly feels better soon. I’m often up at this time as I get very bad lower back pain, plus at the mo I have a weird indigestion type pain radiating up into my left ear! Also worried because I’m passing blood when I go to the loo. Has been one health problem after another over the last couple of years. I am also fretting about how much needs doing, although DH has finished work until the New Year & is great at throwing himself into stuff! I’m working later but only a 4 hour shift then off for a few days. It’s only the 3 of us tomorrow so if the house isn’t as clean & tidy as it could be, that’s ok. Our Christmas certainly isn’t looking like the ones in the glossy mags!

Oh you poor thing, you have my sympathies. I have a DS23 who somehow has turned out completely teetotal and I thank God every day 😀 Your DS will be fine and I'm sure this will be a good lesson to him about not drinking to excess bless him.

I'm up because I'm just recovering from this wretched flu/Covid virus which has had me coughing so much I have had to borrow some incontinence pads from my elderly DM as I kept peeing myself every time I coughed - oh the shame! Now I've woken up because I feel like I need to pee constantly and now have blood in my urine so looks like I have a urine infection on top of everything else and I'm so uncomfortable. So it will be a quick dash to Boots as soon as they open today.

Been awake since 4am, no illness just the knowledge of my soon to be ex H shagging someone else all night is enough to make my brain find it hard to shut down 😂 I wake up both relieved he's not here but vexed by his behaviour. Hope your son is not too bad, I wouldn't worry about uni, this episode will be a lesson on the perils of drink!

AgathaMystery ( great username btw!) wondering if your brother knew he was ill before he came? If so, that’s extremely inconsiderate as you could all go down with whatever he has over Christmas.

I've just given up and cone downstairs and made a cup of tea. It's much cooler and i feel vetter for it.
Hope your son is ok op. Is he rouseable?

I really appreciate all your kind replies.
I don't know what he was thinking but I'm just relieved to have got him home before something worse happened.
The NHS page about alcohol poisoning is a scary read.
I need to talk to both my younger boys about what to do if one of their friends ends up in that situation in the future.
We're meant to be going out for a pub meal this evening - not sure anyone's really going to be up for that!

Your poor DS I’m sure we’ve all been there before and he’s going to feel terrible in the morning! Hopefully lesson learnt :)

I’ve been awake all night (literally!) with horrid anxiety and generally feeling pretty ill. Had a sore throat since Tuesday but now it’s turning into a full blown virus I think - I’ve been dry heaving and had a really upset belly.

As everyone else seems to, we have such a full on day today and I just don’t think I can pull myself together to be ok. It all revolves around eating and drinking and I definitely couldn’t do either right now 😷

I have been awake since 5.30 with toothache but I'm not convinced it's not to do with the third cold I seem to have come down with in about 6 weeks hope your son is ok once he's slept it off, OP.

Wide awake here as wife woke me up reading them going to the loo about 2 hours ago, and is now snoring away. We have a full day ahead doing our annual, wonderful, Father Christmas experience with DS who is 5 and has been excited/overtired/stubborn all week. It's normally my favourite day of the year but I'm struggling this year. Hopefully it will kick my festive feeling into action as we're hosting our whole family for Christmas lunch for the first time.

Hope your son wakes up with nothing more than a headache and a lesson learned. So glad you bollocked his friends - it may be a good idea to reiterate that bollocking to them again when you see them sober next. Most of us have got into that situation as teens but I know that if any of my friends passed out or been too drunk we would have got help.

I hope he recovers quickly, the MIL with dementia is hard for your DH and you. We think MIL is in early stage of dementia. She had a go at me yesterday, she was actually really horrible, she then went in to a dramatic speech about it’s all her fault because she married FIL, now dead who was a grade A see you next Tuesday. Her angst is over her DD who is very similar to her Father, I refused to see SIL for about 5 years as she was so vile to vile to me. MIL says how awful she is, she cried down the phone for literally a year because of SIL behaviour.