Why are so many people up at this hour ?

[SummerDad]

Just wondering ...

How is your son Buddha?

I'm up because I've got to go to the Identity and Passport Office and queue for someone else's passport Get a full English on expenses though

It's still dark

Hi there,
I am awake still after no sleep.
Have had my sleeping habits turned upside down by one stressful night with the BF.
Now I can't sleep, and start work at nine.
Very peeved.

Good to hear that there are others awake too. And yes, thank you Mumsnet for letting me know there re others with the same issue.

Is anyone else having sleeping problems that's still awake?

RnR

Buddha How is your babe?

kitty - You're very perceptive! Am so down. People don't like/or understand grief. We're supposed to "get over it" and carry on with our normal lives after the funeral. Unfortunately, this cannot happen as everything for the bereaved has changed forever! I would love to turn back the clock but realise that it's impossible.

jynier I'm so sorry to hear that and I'm afraid to say you are right. We as a nation generally don't know how best to communicate with or support the bereaved. I'm ashamed to say that even with my best intentions I feel I recently badly let down one of my favourite aunties when I saw her for the first time after she had been bereaved. I had thought long and hard about how to reach out without patronising, how to address it without making her confront things. In the end I'm ashamed to say I faultered, stumbled and failed her. I didn't even squeeze her I bitterly regret this.

Please do use us if we can at all help; either as a distraction or a sounding board.

Have you found the bereavement pages on this forum useful at all?

Lost - so kind of you to post when you are obviously worried about your little DS. Hope that you both get some decent sleep tonight! Best wishes!

arunakoya hello and welcome to our late night rambling thread

Do you mean an argument with your boyfriend or a struggle with breastfeeding has thrown your pattern out? Either way, does it seem fixable?

come..... join us

summerdad are yer there? 'Ows yer Tonsilitis?

I'm trying to settle my little girl but keep having uncontrolled coughing (new symptom) which obviously disturbs her

We had a great night last night which I badly needed. Let's hope she goes off soon. Are your tonsils sore? I can highly recommend doc stolz's codeine/paracetamol sandwich I mean cocktail I mean combo. Tis very effective

cocktail fail

does anyone know why it goes like that? with the dashes and pluses on my other post I mean?

*waves

so, I was struck down by sleep deprivation + man flu and it has taken me this long to be able to be lucid enough to type [at 3am, not sure I am ever going to be lucid ] so.. hello all, back to form, totally nocturnal, have to be in the hospital by 9am I'm dithering over going to bed, or doing some work instead... sorry to all those who are ill or unhappy

Doctor Doctor! I need a Doctor!

I was felt up treated by one of your lovely colleagues the other day. He was a dish very professional and caring too. Lovely bedside manner. I think a good doctor makes you feel like you are their only patient.

How are you?

google tells me I have dengue fever - NEVER google I think just flu, but still., bleurgh

My tonsils were stolen when I was 8 years old [sulks] they don't tend to remove them very often anymore do they? they're quite handy immune responders (though tonsilitis can be debilitating)- I had to eat toast after my op, toast with blackcurrant jam. Wore an aladdin nightie with a toy hedgehog on my hospital table, next to my orange squash (jug had a blue lid..) Don't know why I remember any of that that so vividly

hello kitty! was he single

why did my strike through fail again?

off to try for a kippola now

sorry you're not very well - [sorry you're not well, empathy doctor face insert here]

I thought your strike throughs worked rather well! enjoy the kippola! You really are my only patient as no more nightshifts til next month! yippeee! more nights free to .. er.. mn work sleep?

don't know if he was single but I'm not just putty in the arms of a lovely doc when feeling wretched and he made it all better. ooh the power you lot have at your fingertips

Oh did you mean single for you? oops

loved the portrait of minicafe. poor lamb. summerdad's having his out soon.

sorry to hear you've been stricken too. I hope you have firmly tucked those hairy man arms back under your frilly blouse now and on with the charade.

re your decision...bed, always bed

kitty - thank you for your further message; so kind!

Bereavement and grief pages were ok; obviously, we're all in the same boat, so to speak. Was horrified when "Gone Too Soon" came up on the right-hand side of my screen; it showed babies, children and adults in their open coffins/caskets. Best comfort that I have (sort of) received was from a Buddhist site and one other which tells people what they should NOT say to people in grief.

ok.. bed is going to be attempted. I have realised, I am fine if I have 3 hours sleep. I never need more than this which means, I will be up by 7.30.. perfect.. (if I fall asleep - this is the tricky part)

I was really bad tonight I scoffed green&blacks almond chocolate for my supper now a bit chocolated-up

what is your favourite stethoscope colour? I lost mine (left it, on a train) need to get another one.. would you trust a doctor with a pink one? all black? purple? teal? sky blue? mint?

Hello lost sorry DS not any better than that

jynier sorry to hear that's what keeps you awake

I agree re attitudes to grief - people can be so dismissive. I've had people say 'oh get over it' or 'shouldn't you be over that by now' etc. Ridiculous, insight-less (is that a word? no..) I can only think to myself, the only way they can be so ignorant is that they are lucky to not understand the true depth of grief

or, they are so awkward with it that they have nothing helpful to say, and would rather stop talking about it before it starts. I don't know which it is with most people I think it's just pure and simple cluelessness.