7 November 2012

A bit of irregularity last night. But let's back up a bit. David has been having trouble sleeping at night for some time now. Then, of course, he's tired during the day and so takes many naps. The problem has been that he has hardly ever been sleeping more than 2 or at most 3 hours at a stretch, and, as anyone who's ever had a newborn baby knows, that can be quite exhausting no matter how many actual hours of sleep a day one gets.

So, last night we decided to give him two different pills (don't worry -- he has prescriptions and doctors' permissions for both of them!) to help him sleep. Unfortunately, they worked a little too well. Around 1:30 a.m. he needed to get up to pee, but he had trouble even sitting up. I helped him a little, and then he was able to stand. But he barely avoided falling, again with my help, on the way to the bathroom. When he had finished, he wanted to go into the living room (because he was really too groggy to KNOW what he was doing, actually), and I made the mistake of letting him do so. At least I realized that he had better not sit in his low chair, so I sat him by the computer instead. I also knew that I didn't dare leave him there alone because he'd probably fall asleep again rather quickly and fall off the chair. So I got him up to try to get him back to the bedroom. But it was not to be. Even with my help, he got so wobbly that he went down. Luckily, he went down quite gently, so I knew that he hadn't injured anything. But it was clear that he would be lying on the floor for the rest of the night, so I got him a pillow and a blanket. He feel asleep again almost instantly, of course, but I didn't dare leave him there unattended because I knew that if he woke up, he would probably try to get up, would be confused and maybe even panicked, and could easily injure himself in the process. So, I had to just sit there awake in the living room for the rest of the night. I was thankful for my iPad and some games I have on it. Of course, I also occasionally monitored the U.S. election results, as well. As least David did finally get a good night's sleep!

Obviously, I didn't get out for any exercise this morning! However, by breakfast time, David was awake, and the medicines had worn off enough that he was able to get up off the floor with some assistance. Most of the day today, he was off a bit, though, and, especially in the morning, he walked rather slowly and unsteadily. Yesterday, I had called and scheduled an appointment with our family doctor for 11:50 today, so we went over to that. We had to wait about an hour, though, because he was behind. Of course, the doctor doesn't really have any suggestions about the situation, but we did get our regular prescriptions for both of us from him for the next 3 months (the maximum number he is allowed to write). At that, we went to the Ice Park & Mall and ate lunch at Greg.

I taught just 2 Berlitz classes for a total of 5 units: 10:00-11:30 and 3:00-5:15.

This evening, we went to the old mall (Mul HaYam) to check on something at Kravitz and then treated ourselves to frozen yogurts while we were there. Then we drove the short loop just so we wouldn't be bored in the evening.