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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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Hello everyone xox

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Hi @Former-Member, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member and anyone else awake

How are you? I see you all floating around 💜🤗

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Hi @Former-Member .... 😊

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How has your day been @Faith-and-Hope?

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Hi @Faith-and-Hope and @Former-Member

My day has been ok.

How are you both?

Whats on the agenda tomorrow?

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How are you travelling now @Former-Member. I wrote a long response to you yesterday but lost it and couldn't face writing it again. It was in response to you putting yourself first and not worrying about your family so much. Have you had a relaxing day?

I have my therapist tomorrow and will try to visit my dad in hospital, he should be coming home tomorrow night.

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Hi again @Former-Member

I did sleep a bit better last night.

I've been up to Brisbane today from the Gold Coast

I am trying not to worry too much though

Hope your appointment goes well tomorrow and your Dad makes a speedy recovery.

Do you find it hard to open up to people?

I've got my Drs appointment at 1pm, and then having a late lunch with a friend.

When I went to my appointment the other day she said I looked really tired around the eyes and my eyes are puffy too.

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@Former-Member

Slow and steady .... church, lunch, siesta ... got myself out for a 20min walk before dinner ... yay !

Got my room sorted yesterday, well enough for now ... so everything is on track so far.

No dramas on the horizon ... yet .... 😏

WH actually skipped his jog this morning 😳 but it was because we fast before Communion, and take Communion before we fly .... and he recognised that he wouldn't manage jogging without eating anything. Thank God.

And we had a coffee catch-up with friends we won't see for months that he actually came to ... and we were the last to leave as opposed to the first .... 👍🏼

Small successes happen occasionally.

His eye is not better ... wondering still whether this is the break-through. It might not lead to a torn or detached retina, but if it won't heal, he will be very uncomfortable with it throughout the trip. This might be the catalyst for waking him up .... bearing in mind we're at the seven year mark ....

Gotta just keep sitting on my hands and dawdling along in his periphery ....

Watching "Leap Year" with D2 and D3 .... hilarious 😆

How was your day ? Are you going okay ?

❤️

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Glad you slept better @Former-Member. That's no good that she noticed you looked tired. Are you feeling stressed over anything?

I always thought I was an open book but I guess I'm pretty open about most things but not all. It is much easier to be open on here because you don't see people's reactions. I think it depends on the person. I really don't have much interaction with people to open up to. I have two friends I'm fairly open with. I did talk to someone in my TAFE course last week and at one point I felt like I had to explain what I've been doing for the past few years and I told her I had a MI. She then disclosed that her mum does to so it went well. Does this help?

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