Incoherent Insomniac Blog

Warning: Self-Pity Ahead

 

 

Huh. Wrong warning sign but still some good advice

If whoever is reading my blog everyday is looking for pictures of some castle, you are in for some disappointment for the next little while. Jackson's sleep issues are absolutely out of control and I have been getting between 2-4 hours of sleep per night for a couple of weeks now and it is taking a toll. Who am I kidding? It has been taking a toll for years and it is only getting worse. He has a visit to his pediatrician next week for typical school stuff but I am going to try to convince them to get him into a sleep study. I am SO.DAMN.TIRED. I am losing my appetite and starting to have stomach issues and nausea all day, double-vision and vertigo and we pretty much don't leave the house because I don't trust myself to drive. There isn't anything I can do about it either. He is on the highest dose of melatonin that I can give him and he fights it off within an hour of it taking effect. Anyway, this is going to become my sleep journal for a while so that I can show the doctor exact times, schedules, etc. Fun times.

 

 

It slays me that he can sleep for just a bit more than me and he is up and dancing and jumping and happy all day and I am like a walking zombie. He is dancing and watching Dora right now after playing Angry Birds in the  angarden for an hour in the sun! If he has to have ADHD that makes him stay awake, why couldn't I have it too?! Wouldn't that be only fair? And he pings all over the house all day long, so I have to drag my disheveled ass all over the house to make sure he isn't hanging out of an upstairs window, building a nuclear bomb, or building a nuclear bomb while hanging out of an upstairs window.

 

 

I have been wondering if he is going through a growth spurt and that is contributing to his sleep issues. It always does. Most kids sleep like freaking Rumpelstiltskin when they have a growth spurt but OH NOOOOOO not my kid! Ninja edit: That doesn't sound right. Rumpelstiltskin isn't the guy who slept for 40 years. My google-fu reminds me that I am thinking of Rip Van Winkle. So maybe he is growing again? Thank goodness I haven't started buying many winter clothes yet because my five year old will be in a size 8 before it snows.

 

Anyway, Jack just started climbing cabinets in the kitchen because he wants food again, so I am going to stumble off and make Lunch: Part Deux for him.