Sleep

Oh, dear, I am so tired.  While surfing the net on chronic sinus infections and fatigue, I found that chronic sinus infections are often incorrectly diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome and that the most common indicator of a chronic sinus infection is not headache or pressure, but fatigue. 

Add to that a toddler who doesn’t want to sleep and idiot parents who can’t figure out why and you’ve got one sleepy working mama.

Last Thursday, we had a horrible night of sleep.  And it wasn’t until Dave (who kept waking up thirsty from our dinner) gave Conor a sippy cup of water and the child fell back asleep soundly did we realize that 1) we are truly idiots as parents and 2) water is good for children at night. 

Last night, however, we could not figure out what the problem was.  He was up nursing 13 (THIRTEEN…1! 3!) times from 11:30 pm until 6 am.  He was in bed with us, otherwise, I would have slit my wrists, but we don’t know what happened.  He did wake up with a running nose, so maybe there’s a sore throat involved.  All I can conclude though at the moment is 1) we are still idiots and 2) I am fucking tired. 

Dave agrees with Gabriella, our resident dentist/commenter, that I have a sleep deficit what with both the toddler and nose.  I confess that I went to bed at 9:00 on Saturday, slept in until 7 am, and still did not wake up feeling refreshed.  I tried to go to bed last night early, too, but even 15 minutes of the Sopranos worked me up so much I had a hard time settling down. 

And as for how I’m feeling with the sinus infection, the only thing I can say is “tired.”  There is no more snot coming out in any large fashion.  I’m still on the antibiotics trying to kill off the film that is keeping those germies alive.  But the most I feel is clogged, not congested, sort of like I’ve been swimming and my nose is irritated. 

And I’m tired.  But how on earth can I say I’m more tired than you are?  Raise your hand if you are NOT tired?  I’m looking out my window and I do not see a lot of people with their hands raised.  So I’m tired.  Yes, very tired.  But what parent of young children isn’t?

As for the mega-nursing, tonight we are going to start the ol’ nummies go night-night routine.  We’ll make sure the little guy has a big dinner and has lots of water before he goes to sleep.  But Mom’s All Night Dinner is going to issue a last call for boob-a-hol around 8:30.  And as we used to say in the bar where I used to be a cocktail waitress:  “Either you work here, you sleep here, or you sleep with someone who works here.  But you can’t nurse any more till the morning.”  Or something like that.  

In any case, boobies need to sleep, too.  Or as he calls them “boo boos.”  Mommy’s boo boos need to go night-night.  They will wake up with the sun comes up and Conor can have more nummies then. 

Now it’s time to go make another pot of coffee. 

12:49:32 PM