It's more than a fortnight since my last post. I just can't keep up with myself and sleep problems are driving me mad. Sometimes I go night after night with about 3 hours' sleep, then drop from exhaustion. The fitbit measures the exact length of time I sleep. This week: Sun - 14hr 31min; Mon - 4hr 3mins; Tues - 13h 15mins; last night - 6hr 58min.
These wild fluctuations are far from normal, so I went to the doctor about it on Tuesday. It was a middle-aged Indian woman, whom I saw for the first time. She took my problem seriously, where others have not. Not that I've bothered to mention it often. The first thing she did was change one lot of medication, the second, send me for a blood test. I've been seriously depressed, too, so she's looking into counselling for me.
When she asked me what I do, she laughed and said no wonder I was tired, as that's far too much. But that still doesn't explain the insomnia leading to a mammoth sleep. She actually gave me a hug as I was leaving!
The pic today is my kitchen first thing in the morning. Both Emma and Hugo are making wonderful progress with my reading books, 'Sounds of Reading'. Emma was doing what Hugo (now 5yrs 8mths) is doing now when she was four. Given that at the beginning of kinder he was one year behind in language development, he's catching up very quickly, and loves working with Nanny.
The Thermomix is getting a good workout! The other Sunday I had guests for lunch and made the dip, the bread, the butter, the soup and the main chicken course + rice in it. The creme caramel was made the ordinary way.
Unfortunately there are BIG problems with Thermomixes exploding and burning the cooks. I'm very cross that I wasn't made aware of this before I bought mine. Of course, if I had been told, I never would have bought it.
These wild fluctuations are far from normal, so I went to the doctor about it on Tuesday. It was a middle-aged Indian woman, whom I saw for the first time. She took my problem seriously, where others have not. Not that I've bothered to mention it often. The first thing she did was change one lot of medication, the second, send me for a blood test. I've been seriously depressed, too, so she's looking into counselling for me.
When she asked me what I do, she laughed and said no wonder I was tired, as that's far too much. But that still doesn't explain the insomnia leading to a mammoth sleep. She actually gave me a hug as I was leaving!
The pic today is my kitchen first thing in the morning. Both Emma and Hugo are making wonderful progress with my reading books, 'Sounds of Reading'. Emma was doing what Hugo (now 5yrs 8mths) is doing now when she was four. Given that at the beginning of kinder he was one year behind in language development, he's catching up very quickly, and loves working with Nanny.
The Thermomix is getting a good workout! The other Sunday I had guests for lunch and made the dip, the bread, the butter, the soup and the main chicken course + rice in it. The creme caramel was made the ordinary way.
Unfortunately there are BIG problems with Thermomixes exploding and burning the cooks. I'm very cross that I wasn't made aware of this before I bought mine. Of course, if I had been told, I never would have bought it.
1 comment:
Very often it takes a new doctor to sort out some old problems - hope she works it all out for you. xx
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