All I can manage without drugs is about 4 hours a night. I just get used to watching the clock and listeni8ng to the wife saw logs.? She could (and has) sleep 10 hours and even 12 or 14, no problem. AZDAVE
-----Original Message----- From: John S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:05 pm Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] SLEEP I?have had problems sleeping since 1995.?I had a very serious case of pneumonia and it damaged my lungs so badly they din't think I'd ever be able to get off oxygen. Well, I did, but I never sleep more than?2-3 hours at a time and often it takes 2-3 hours to return to sleep. The past few years I tried using pot and it would help immensly at first. I've given it up because it no longer has the effect and all my drunken relatives frown on it. They would use that as an excuse not to visit me. I can't say they light up my life, but I do get lonely. It isn't addictive so, it wasn't a problem to stop. I do take valium, vicodin and oxycodone (not all at once) so you would think sleep would come easy. It doesn't and I do get depressed watching old movies as the sleep timer runs down and then listening to the building settle. I have taken all the over the counter preperations like tylenol pm, even getting some stuff from tv that uses triptiphan. My doctor doesn't want to prescribe anything and seems to feel that it may simply be normal for me to sleep a few hours a day. Once I'm in my chair, I'm not drowsy or sleepy. The orthopedic appliances in my chair that are?twisting and forcing me straight would wake up a dead person. Do many of you get by on 3 to 5 hours sleep a day? ?? I wish all of you the best, john ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Quadius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:14:18 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] PAIN I get the same way Quadius but mine has a button I can can just slap and turn it back on. If I forget to turn it off I wake up burning up and can't get back to sleep. ? ? Mark Jackson ?? RollinOn ? From: Quadius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] PAIN It says that on all of the electric blankets I have seen, but I believe it depends on whether you have the ability to sense of your body is getting too hot.? I use my electric blanket occasionally, but I find I end up having to turn it off at some point during the night because my core temperature gets too high.? Sadly I'm not able to turn it back on by myself, so that's a bit of a downer. Quadius On 4/9/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Janet. I always thought it was not safe for a quadriplegic to use an electric blanket.? I was told that by someone in the past, but I can't remember who it was. ? Dana Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1373 - Release Date: 4/11/2008 9:17 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1373 - Release Date: 4/11/2008 9:17 AM __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
