Facebook Post from October 26, 2010 at 7:52am
“Sleep. Oh, how I have missed you! Feeling so much better today!!!”
After a nasty cold and no sleep in several days, I finally got a prescription for 10 mg Ambien. Can we say lifesaver??!!! When you are exhausted but still can’t sleep and you feel miserable all over, you will try anything to get some rest.
I wasn’t crazy about having to take more medicine for something that I used to be able to do all on my own. But I knew that if I got some rest I would be healthier and better able to handle the next round of chemo. I just wanted to get through it all. A few months of Ambien wouldn’t kill me, and in the beginning I did have a few days that I didn’t need to take it. Towards the end of chemo I would come to rely on it every night to help me stay asleep. I would often fall asleep fine, but just couldn’t stay asleep through the many hot flashes I was plagued with each night.
No sleep=grumpy Mama. No one wants a grumpy Mama. Trust me.
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