Anybody awake for a chat?

[Stuckinhospital]

I'm in hospital nothing too serious this time but having a absolutely awful night. The ladies can't help it on the ward but I am an awful sleeper best of time and everything that's going off on the ward is keeping me awake.
How are you?
What's keeping you up?

I’m awake. Awful insomnia getting worse Weekly, my daughter is out so I’ve come to her bed tonight. Sorry your in hospital

Sorry to hear about troubled nights and lack of sleep. I'm awake because my dog has been sick and pacing about uncomfortable. She looks at me to help but I can't.

I drank way too many coffees yesterday and now I have insomnia.The wind is howling outside and my bedroom is cold but I can see I'm not the only one awake.

My whole Saturday is now ruined. I’m so broken with insomnia. Xmas market cancelled and probably a concert

Has the rain been bad too?
Its been constant here

Poor doggo

Do you have to cancel everything?

Oh I hope you still go to the Christmas market too

Lots of wind and rain here

Jetlag and perimenopause woke me at 330am. Then dog got up and woke OH. Happy Saturday to us!

I'm awake because my mind is whirring over a close family member not being invited to a family wedding. My heart breaks for her but i don't think i can say anything I'm not even a Ramsay/Peaty! .

I’m sorry you are in hospital though glad you are not too poorly.

Stress as usual is keeping me awake!

I remember being in hospital when pregnant with eldest. I was in on an off for placenta praevia and then my last stint was 6 weeks. On bed rest. We had a lovely system tea & toast in bed. Bowl wash and change. Sit in chair. Morning tea. Back to bed. Lunch. Afternoon tea brought in by visitors and then one of the dh’s (there were 4 of us ‘long termers’in a ward) and we would decide what take away we’d like if we didn’t like the idea of the food. We had a small tv in the corner.

It was a stressful time made so much easier by the wonderful women I shared with. It was almost 30 years ago but looking back those women got me through. Oh and we had Father Christmas visit with lovely bubble bath that we put in our bowls that we washed with as we weren’t allowed showers. New years day a smashing fry up!

good Luck and I hope you aren’t in for too long & back to yourself soon x

Awake here - hospital wards are the pits

I'm awake listening to a rat chewing something in the cavity wall 😭

Can you try to get through and then crash afterwards? Sometimes it's amazing how the body can function on no sleep for a while. It would be a shame to miss out, but understandable if so.

I’m so sorry. I lived for years like this. Not being able to plan much, having to save my minuscule resources for shit-work, and work. I hope you manage to get some sleep

@Ihad2Strokes Sorry this is SUCH a late reply. I was able to stay home but I’m actually still not well (I mean, I have chronic health problems, so I’m not expecting a ton - just to be able to stay awake for a few hours a day). I’ve been sleeping 24 hours a day (isn’t it weird when you try to explain sleep to an healthy person? I mean, I never slept like this when I was healthier and I feel like a zombie now) and just feel like death. They’re trying me on a second (third?) antibiotic and if I’m not better by this coming Monday, I definitely have to go in. I know that I should probably have gone in this past Monday, but it’s already so hard for me to leave the house, and where we are in Scotland, it’s below freezing on the heat index. Argh. I swear, whenever it’s this temp here, the hospitals crank their heating up to about 26. I know that there are a ton of seriously ill people there who probably feel the cold. Unfortunately way too hot for me - it always makes me feel extra ill, when I’m already there being ill.

I'm sorry to hear you're still so unwell. 🤞🏼🤞🏼these anti biotics work & you don't have to go in on Monday!!

I know what you mean about the temperature in the hospital, I'm always trying to get a fan & a window open, whilst feeling so hot/faint. It's horrible. I can't wear any less!! & no matter how many times you ask for just a sheet, they still make the bed up with blankets, then looked pissed off when you take them off.

It's hard to explain a lot of things to 'well' people. I can't explain how unwell I feel or describe my 'unwell ness' it's just like nausea/exhausted/aching/hurting/ but not like any of those things would have been pre this shit show & no one is taking me seriously because they just say I'm bound to be tired because if the stroke. But it's not that.

take care, as much as you can, let me know how you're doing when you are able to/want to. I'm thinking about you xx

Oh gosh yes, it is INCREDIBLY hard to explain to others something that they’ve just never experienced. I have some memory loss from “mini” strokes, and people try to be kind and understanding by saying, “Oh I completely get it! I have such brain fog from x/y/z.” And brain fog is, no doubt, a true difficulty on its own, I’m sure! But what I’m talking about is just this gaping hole in my memories and it’s not coming back (been a few years since my first TIA). So I get it - people are trying to be understanding, they want to help keep you positive by reminding you that you’ve had a stroke and it takes time to heal, but it can be really hard to explain to someone that all-over feeling of unwellness that comes when you’re forced out of touch with your own body. I’m in that zone: everything you eat makes you feel sick and you sleep and sleep, but never wake up feeling REALLY well-rested. It’s tough!!! I hope you’re hanging in there.