I’m just not sleeping.

Looks like I’m in my fifth or sixth year of being unable to sleep through the night. At most I get little hour and a half rounds of partial sleep… with a lot of awake in between. If it weren’t for my afternoon nap, which also doesn’t extend beyond an hour and a half, I probably wouldn’t get through the day.

It reminds me of a JC Duffy Cartoon (over at Night Deposits):

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I had an E.E.G. this morning…

An Electro EncepheloGram (EEG) requires you to have a bunch of electrical contacts put around your head while you lie down in the dark and, well, go to sleep. As such, it’s the most painless and most comfortable test I’ve had so far. I had mine at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown at 9:00 AM.

The instruction sheet I was given at the Neurologist’s office prior to the test told me to stay up the night before until Midnight, then get up at 5:00 AM. After that I could eat and medicate as usual, BUT I COULD HAVE NO CAFFEINE!!! How in Hell can I function with very little sleep and no coffee? The reason, of course, which I found out at the test, was that they really wanted me to fall asleep as it went on, without any chemical help that would throw off the test. So I napped for a half hour in a dark room with probes wired to my head.

So now I’m back home… tired. I’m going to feed the dogs their lunch and take a nap.

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