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Night Shift

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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Wow @Former-Member .... 😄

That's my day .... ❣

I started running raid on my house when my first three kids were little .... 3 under 2yo .... with newborns waking me up through the night .... health issues running to hospital stays with D2 .... toddler on the move during the day .... workaholic husband .... monster-in-law .... I used to run out of energy to stay upright ....

I used to turn my room into a communal nursery for all of us. It had a bathroom attached. Had nappies, toys, snacks, TV, kettle + coffee in the bathroom, milk in a cooler bag, 24hr/day trackies on, cots, playpen .... all in there .....

Ran raids to the laundry to put washing on and get clean clothes, put everybody into twin pram and sling to run raids to the local shops, raided the kitchen to throw together a one-pot dinner, and slept when the kids slept ....

Hadn't really thought about it beyond survival .... but I have kept up the practice during school holidays .... and the kids do that from their rooms even now during school holidays when they're pretty knocked out ....

It gets the have-to's done ....

😆✅

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That's made my day .... ❣

..... Spellcheck autocorrect strikes again ....

:face_with_rolling_eyes:

Sorry about your sad news @Former-Member .....

Gentle hugs .... 😔💜💕

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That's ok @Faith-and-Hope i hoped your day was produvtive 😝

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I don't have any plans tomorrow but I will be getting in a walk for sure. I think its great that you are getting out and doing your walks. Depending on how I sleep I mite head down to see my mum tomorrow.

I also have to get a new referral for my specialist before I see her next Tuesday, I will find out then how my test went yesterday- fingers crossed its okay.

I have Kira tugged up in bed with me, she as been sound asleep for a while now. How is your dog?

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@Former-Member My dog is happy for the big walk and he has been a pain tonight trying to get attention by pushing himself in my lap between me and the iPad so I can't type and have to pat him. He has now given up after I gave in to him for a while and is sleeping next to me.

Crossing my fingers for your tests tomorrow, hopefully all will be good. 😊💜

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Experiencing the iPad >> forehead tap here ....

Time to go to sleep methinks ...

Wishing you all well for tomorrow.

😏💜

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Ok so I've changed my avatar picture at least 5 times tonight and I'm still not happy with it. Sorry if I confuse everyone for a while until I find what works for me. It may take a while 😁🤔😳

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..what tha?/.. what are you doing up @Former-Member

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I think it's called self destructing @TAB. Never try to fix anything that isn't broken. Grrrrrr. What are you doing up still?

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...snap @Former-Member...re self desruction, have had few late nites of late am sitting here scribbling plans ..still

..well what did you try to fix that wasn't broken Ms?

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