Caffeine

For the last week or so I’ve been dead tired towards the end of the day and falling asleep about the same time as Ella. Which granted gets me closer to the 8 hours of sleep that is the standard goal but I lose all time with Cindi and that’s not a good thing.

Now the thing to understand is that I have for years have had problems with sleep and will go days or weeks with getting 4 to 5 hours at best and then one night get 10 hours. About a year or so ago I did ask the doctor and she suggested trying the over the counter sleeping pills. This was since the insurance usually won’t pay for prescription meds if you haven’t tried the OTC first. Well they’ve worked okay in a fashion but I having to take them for so long.

Anyway all this falling asleep has been coming without taking any pills and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then suddenly the other morning, after waking up at 4:15, I finally put 2 & 2 together and hit upon. I’ve been changing the way I eat a bit and one thing I’ve cut out for the most part is all the diet soda and ice tea I’ve been drinking, all sources of caffeine. So that’s one or two sodas a day and 4 or 5 glasses of the ice tea. All these were in addition to 2 or 3 cups of coffee in the morning. No wonder I’ve had trouble sleeping, heck it’s a wonder I slept at all.

In other news Ella’s home today with a fever, my Mom’s going to come up and stay with her so Cindi and I both can go to work. Luckily I don’t have to be in until 1:30 and Cindi’s home a few hours after that. It’s not that I don’t think my Mom can take care of Ella it’s just that she’s 81 and doesn’t move as good as she use to so keeping the job small is good and for the most part Ella can be fairly independent.

As for work I’m sure tonight will be one of the slowest nights I have seen ever, with the world series on and everyone around here glued to the set.  It was great last night to see the Phillies shut up the NY fans and their cocky attitudes.

Well have a great day and smile.