Sleep is a luxury to caregivers

One of the things that you never really stop to think about when you enter into being a family caregiver is the fact that some nights you won't get any sleep. I had one of those nights the other night. My mom's heart was bothering her so I told her to go ahead and lay down and I'd stay up and keep an eye on her. Sunday morning I had woke up at around 7:30 or 8 in the morning, Finally went to bed around 8pm Saturday night after spending all night Sunday sitting up watching back episodes of Heroes on the NBC website to keep me awake (I like that series, but the darned thing stopped playing right after episode 15, I need to figure out why so I can finish getting caught up and start watching that series along with Without A Trace), anyway...

After being awake the entire night before I got to bed around 8 last night, then had to get back up at about eleven and made it back to bed a little past midnight. Needless to say I did not wake up until 11 am this morning. Still feel worn out and all I wanna do is crawl back into bed and sleep for another 8 or 12 hours. Too much to do though, and I really should have woke up about 3 or 4 hours ago.

Got ponds to work on and flowers to get planted in the yard.