December 1 2015

December 1 2015 Greetings My Friend I am now dealing with insomnia. Part of me thinks it may be the new medication for my tremors. II sleep but it is a disrupted type of sleep. Instead of sleeping 7 or 8 hours each night I sleep 4 or 5 hours and nap throughout the day. So far my energy level is okay and I have decided to run with it for now anyway. I am able to get most of the things I want done, done. Junior sleeps like this. Seeing him deal with this helps me to not get upset. Dad also slept like this too. At the end of the day Junior gets enough sleep to accomplish quite a bit. At first this method of approaching his day confused me greatly. Again as I start having my problems I am able to understand more fully and to work with it. This insomnia is different than when I was first retired. At that point I never felt rested so functioning was a major struggle. I think now that I have finally had a chance to get fully rested this unsettled type of sleep allows me to get rested even if I am sleeping in shifts during the day. All of this may change down the road but for now I am able to function. If I can’t get that sense of being rested then I will have to talk to my doctor but for now I am going with it. I am grateful that the shaking has settled down and I have regained a sense of balance to where I can get around fairly well. If the medication is keeping me awake I don’t mind. In a little bit we will leave for Michigan. We are making a trip back to Michigan to do some work on our house that we rent out. Our nephew helped us with painting and cleaning the carpet and in the meantime we received a couple of notices of other things that we need to deal with. Junior built a shed and it has to be torn down. The previous renters left a big stack of wood that has to be cleared out. We have decided to go bring all the wood back with us to burn in our wood burning stove. Our nephew does not have a truck and we do so off to Michigan we go. Yesterday we packed, picked up medications and got the house in order so we can leave soon after Junior gets up. We have been in Virginia 6 years now and we have finally settled into a routine of getting things together so we can leave. We know how long it takes to get to Michigan and we are comfortable with the drive which helps also. We both have a suitcase fairly much ready to go for these trips also. At first I attempted to pack both summer and winter clothes all in one suitcase. I have since decided to pack clothes for each season we travel and then swap them as we need. At this time of the year I know I won’t need shorts or a short sleeved shirt so I don’t bother to stick them in the suitcase. Other times I pack at least one outfit for the opposite season when we are in a transition time of year. I used to pack each time we traveled and found this to take less time overall. Junior got the truck cleaned out for our traveling yesterday, we picked up medications and now all we have to do is wake up, eat and take off. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet