It's 1am, why are you awake?

[JustFrustrated]

I'll start.

A virus has swept through our house since week before Christmas.

DH first, followed by me 48 hours later. A speedy but harsh 4 day illness which left us exhausted but "recovered".

The weird thing was, how exactly mine copied his to the hour. Never experienced it before, identical in swiftness and severity.

We were not. He has progressively gotten worse and is back to a sky high temperature and a racking cough (not COVID, confirmed) and is going to see the GP tomorrow.

Eldest came down with it 3 days ago and is now mildly on the up, her temperature has dropped below 40 for the first time.

Which brings me to me, who is currently curled up on the sofa, with a hot water bottle on her ear having gotten up to take codiene because I can feel the build up to my eardrum rupturing, because unlike most children, I never grew out of it.

So I'm thoroughly fed up, in absolute agony and just waiting for the relief following what I already know is going to be a lightning rod of white hot pain through my skull.

So why are you reading this? Why are you awake?

Because o have to wear a cpap machine, which I hate & I have to be fully exhausted before I can get to sleep.
I hope your whole family start feeling better soon, a few days of illness feels like a lifetime when your in the middle of it

Hope you feel better soon! I’m awake as I’m working (and mumsnetting clearly lol waiting for someone to get back to me with something so killing time on here!)

Breakup.

I’m on my tea break. Night nurse. I have a hot cup of coffee which is heaven even if it’s from a sachet.
hope you all feel better soon OP.

I had a nap at 4pm but it lasted for an hour so I’m only just starting to feel tired.

I turned off the white noise on my phone and the baby woke up instantly. So now we are feeding.

I'm 38 weeks pregnant. Cant sleep at the best of times but toddler is going through a regression and didn't settle until midnight and I'm in agony with hip pain (presumably from the size of the baby or the way their lying in the womb)

Hope your family are on the mend soon.

Good middleofthenight! I am up for the same reason pretty much.
Started feeling ill on the 29th at work, felt like death warmed up at the end of that day and then have been super unwell since (also not covid) with sore throat, ears, cough, congestion and conjunctivitis in both eyes not to mention all the other symptoms.
Today I have felt a bit better but I am like a wet sandwich and have no energy. Just woke up with a sore throat and my eyes stuck together again. Not loving it!
Hope you can snuggle in soon and get back to sleep x

Fell asleep at 11 but then woke up midnight and realised one teen wasn't home yet so stayed awake waiting for her to get in. Now awake worrying about younger teen who's quite lonely at school and doesn't have any friends ☹️. Kids man. And work in the morning...

Oh god, poor you and your poor family. I hope health is restored soon.

I am up because my sleep hygiene is always up the spout. I’ve always felt more at home in the quiet early hours, as if my mind gains freedom and I can drift about in the in-betweenness of it. But as I get older I can’t deal with the fatigue and I have little recourse to lie ins. I make myself as if hungover with tiredness the next day (although I don’t drink). I always resolve to get to bed earlier the next night, but…

So my mind wanders onto things which stress me, and old hurts. Things get magnified at these times.

I'm a night owl and don't have to go to work tomorrow so I've been watching tv and cleaning.
Dh and dc are up too
Next week is going to be tough when it's back to school and offices.

I'm a bit wired from a 40 min round trip to pick DC up from the station after a night out. Going on Mumsnet for a bit helps to wind down before sleep.

Youngest woke up about 40 mins ago, threw up, and we're still awake as he finds it hard to sleep anyway. So I'm trying to settle him. Sorry to hear you are feeling so unwell yourself.

I’m stressed about some work stuff, and I’m doing dry January so I can’t take the edge off it with wine.

Hope you all feel better soon, OP!

Watching simplynailogical stream 😂

I’ve got covid. Just sitting here contemplating going to bed, but know as soon as I do, I’ll be coughing.
Hope you’re better soon op. Strange you mention your ear, as we’ve all had congested sinus/ears with this horrid dose of covid.

Not sure. Turned lights out at midnight but couldn't settle. No particular reason I can think of.

Toothache

Sorry to all the ill people.

I went swimming and full of energy after, then DD came for a chat then dinner then shopping for DSs birthday and things in the sale or not in sale but I liked. Listening to music. Never get to sleep until about 4am since chemo 1.5 years ago. DD says I'm like a teenager now. 😂

Night owl who still has to get up for work in the morning, plus one of the dcs keeps coming in to chat/procrastinate because they apparently can’t sleep. They don’t have to get up early though…

I'm so excited and relieved to have a night to myself and a whole day to myself and a lie-in tomorrow, after a stressful Christmas, I can't bear to go to sleep yet and am binge-watching Pride and Prejudice on iplayer!

I hope you feel better soon.

Fibromyalgia, it's always there and I cope with the pain but it's flaring at the moment which means I can't get comfortable. Stabbing pain from hip to ankle, costochondritis making breathing painful, my fingers hurt so i cant even crochet which usually relaxes me and even my softest pjs are hurting my skin so I'm in knickers and a t shirt, luckily the house is warm. I can hear dh snoring in another bedroom and I'm slightly jealous but he's a good one and will bring me breakfast later and fuss about me trying to do too much. I'm tempted to give in, get out of bed and go watch some rubbish telly but my dog is beside me and I'm too much of a softy to disturb him. Not due pain relief until 7am and I've already taken my meds for breakthrough pain so it's going to be a long night.

Couldn't make myself go to bed.
Finished this Netflix series I've been watching 🤦🏻‍♀️
Now I'm too tired and overthinking everything!

@JustFrustrated hope it clears for you soon. Being ill is horrible even if you know it's short term.

Watching something on TV, sorted out a project today (well, yesterday) and will have to check on another project today. They help with MSc so I need as many as I can get.

DD is worrying me senseless and DS is unhappy at school. It seems never ending.