Daily Log #7 (No Sleep)

It was very quiet around here today. I didn't fall asleep until 2:30am and then my wife's alarm clock went off at 4:30am. Since I had been up most of the night trying to get comfortable enough to sleep, my stomach must have thought it was later in the day so I couldn't go back to sleep without eating something first. I probably should have taken some Ambian to help me sleep, but when I take it I usually feel tired all day anyway. Plus when I lay in bed trying to get comfortable I don't want to get up to take some Ambian and have to start all over again. Usually, by the time I get sick of not being able to sleep it's too late to take Ambian anyway. So, on nights like tonight, when I have already gone a few nights without much sleep, I'll take an Ambian right away and hope it works.

Just because I take something to help me sleep that doesn't mean I'll get any sleep because pain doesn't care about sleeping pills. The sleeping pills usually help me to sleep longer with the pain before I wake up.

I'm very aware of what happened to Heith Ledger, the actor who died from pain pills mixed with sleeping pills so I take a lower dose of sleeeping pills and only when I think I absolutely have to.