INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Bluebird, loved the story

thanks guys - and Shepkitty, um nnoooooooooooooo that is a very bad idea. hahahahaha

You just reminded me of a fall in the snow.

My second to last fall was into a huge snowdrift at the neighbor's. I went over to fill their bird feeder, they are elderly. And I fell onto my butt in a huge soft snowdrift under the feeder. Couldn't get up for longest time, and so then I got to laughing so hard I couldn't get up, just imagining if they looked out the window in kitchen and saw me floundering and I'd be out there yelling I'm okay, don't come out, I'm okay. I finally got up and they didn't see me. Soft place to land but hell to get out of when you're in to your neck.

which reminded me of the last hard fall.

You just want to do a selfie video at that moment to prove what happened. Some may recall the story about the time I got into it with a huge furniture moving wagon in our barn. Just moved there, in barn alone and getting ready for a barn sale. I noticed the wagon had a rope on one end for a pulling handle. I thought as I picked up a stack of books, don't want to get tripped up in the rope. And so I did. Got my ankle stuck in it, started hopping on one leg across the concrete floor and fell onto my side and the wagon had gained momentum and slammed into my left side and ran over my leg. Ow, it hurt. I grabbed my pocket for my phone. It was in truck outside. I wanted to just lay there and let Hubby find me and pick me up but the numb bruising and swelling told me I'd better move because this was really going to hurt in a few minutes. Hubby was walking down drive when I got out of barn, just got home from work. I needed a lot of ice and pain killers that week. btw, we shot the wagon.

It's snowing here still. Hubby told Danny Boy in wrote very bad things about him.

Shepkitty, Hubby laughed so hard when I told him your idea.

Ms. Sas, love the song. DH likes it also. Thank you. It's cold in our house too as the furnace is broken. Thank God for fireplaces. Do you have to bundle up like this in Florida too?

Good morning all. Been up most of the night. No real reason I can figure. Just awake. So I thought I’d pop in and say hello. I hate not sleeping. Only good thing about it this time is I’m off work tomorrow due to snow (I don’t see any yet but they say it’s coming) so I can sleep during the day. I’ll cat nap with the cat. Who, by the way, is sleeping soundly next to me on the bed. Sigh.

Jeronimo

Hi Ladies

Wow, what a thread!!! I heard this thread is very busy. I thought I was the only one who stays up late, and I mean until 2-3 in the morning every night!!! I also sleep half the day, as I'm on leave from work. I'm only typing early now, because we have snow, and can't get out. Ugggg, I'm in the south, so snow here is a big deal. The young people love it, you would think it's a carnival for them!!! Will be inside for days. Well, a little about my story. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2017. Didn't have a mammogram for 8 years. I'm almost 49. Yes, I know it was stupid, and I had risk factors, with extremely dense breasts. I had a unilateral mascectomy, with 13 lymph nodes taken out. One was positive. I had a palpable lump seven centimeters, but only 1.3 cm was cancerous. Last year, I noticed my left nipple was inverted, but ignored it. Well, a month later, it was still in inverted, and I knew something was not right. Well, I started googling about bc, and saw a symptom could be a sudden retracted nipple. I freaked, and demanded a mammogram the next day. I was there for 3 hours. Took many pics, had ultrasound, and I could tell the radiologist was concerned. A biopsy was scheduled the next day, waited a week, and it was benign. My breast surgeon was not convinced, and neither was I. My intuition was I had cancer. Thank god the BS did another biopsy, and another week of waiting, it did come back malignant, as we thought. Of course my life was changed forever. It took hours before it sank in, and just cried. As we know, the beginning is always scary, because of so many unknowns. I had some testing, including a CT scan. That one scared me the most. I was afraid it might have spread, however, it came back negative. After my pathology report came back, I'm Stage 2a, and I qualified for the onco geonomic testing. Never heard of it. I was sure I would need chemo. Well, my score came back at 14, so my oncologist said no chemo. It would have only helped by 1or 2 percent. I did not get a second opinion, and I still worry about that lymph node. I hope this was the right decision, but now, for sure, it would be too late. I got a second opinion on radiation, and I had to do it. Did fine on it. So, my best friend for ten years is tamoxifen. When I reach menopause, I'll be switched to another hormone therapy. Usually, before I join a forum, I read all posts, but this one dates back to 2011, and now, over 1450 posts. Sorry to be so lengthy, but I would like to join, if that's ok. I'm going to read some previous posts, to see what you all talk about.

Thanks Wren44

I've been skimming through these threads. I love that we can talk about whatever we want. I wasn't' kidding when I say I go to bed in the wee hours. It's 3:18 am, and still wide awake. My 15 year old daughter, well during school goes to bed around 10-11pm. She's a morning person, never have to get her up, she gets me up in the mornings when I take her to school!!!! Usually, it's the parent who gets the child up. I've usually only been asleep for 4-5 hours when she gets me up. I take her to school in my night gown with a robe on, since I only have to drop her off. Then, I can't wait to get back into bed and sleep four more hours, although it's hard to since I've been up. I take ambien every night, usually around 12-1:00 am. There's nights I'm asleep in 30 min, sometimes it can take 2 hours. Been on it for many years. I don't know how I'm going to get back on a schedule when I return to work. Still about 4 months, as I'm having reconstruction in March. Does anyone take sleep aids? Also do any of you go to work with little sleep?

Do I at least look cute? For the record, I’m so excited for snow! AND I can’t see any grass anywhere!!!

Have been hibernating for five days now, gone nowhere. Slick snow first of week.

Welcome, Jaymeb. You are talkative like me, cool! Melatonin is a big one for many people, it is also suppose to be good for putting off breast cancer. I had flipped hours due to a worsening condition and cough, have righted them lately for most part. If I am up by noon it is now a late morning. Rest is really important when healing and sleeping in the dark hours is up there with prompting the night hormones to do their thing to help get us weller and stronger.

sooooooooo, been home since Saturday afternoon....... and Hubby only leaves the property to drive the mice he live-catches two miles away to release in front of our friend's house. Seriously. Last night I told him, just knock on her door and ask her if it can live there until Spring, she will keep it. I cannot stand for mice to get in the house. I found EVIDENCE yesterday and told Hubby to set the traps right and do it now. So he did, he lets the bait get old. But OMG I cannot handle catching mice then having to put them outside where the cold will kill them or the feral cats or hawks will get them. They are so secure in our little world, our house, all the food they could want, fabric for nests. Then like Peter Rabbit's papa they get caught. At least we don't put them in stew or anything, but out they go. Hubby is heartless about it but one of us has to be. In our other house there was a pole barn. I created a mouse castle in the back w bedding, food and water and then when I would live-trap a mouse in the house I would take it to the mouse castle and settle it in. People laughed, I know you are too, but it was the only way I could live with myself. My DBIL said the mice would beat me back in the house, he saw one run by him one day when I just put it in the castle. Then Hubby realized what I was doing so he started letting them loose at a farm. When he was at work I would be in charge and since my mouse castle was condemned, I made one in the front yard under an old treefort. So I would take new capturees there. Better than "his" barn. Eventually, we found the one hole they were getting through and steel wooled it, no more mice there again. Here, never had a mouse until DD lived on sun porch and had food out there when we told her not to do it, it is attached to the house and that doorway was a pretty big hole inviting them in because she would leave the door open between sometimes. Now mice and probably with spawn of I don't know how many. Perhaps I should ship them to her? But they would have to go through customs. Try explaining that?