I am caring for my aunt who had 2 strokes and recently, a broken hip. (I am a regular poster, so I won't go through the whole story). Lately, I have been waking up in the middle of the night and unable to return to sleep. I try to get to bed between 10 and 11:30, but now I wake up like at 2 or 3 a.m. and can't sleep. Aunty is still in rehab until this Saturday. In the past, she would call me out of bed in the middle of the night to either turn the heat on or off if she was too cool or too warm. Then after I took care of her, I couldn't get back to sleep. Do you think that this problem is stress-related? I sometimes take Tylenol PM pills for sleep, but I don't like depending on pills since I already take other meds.Any advice?
That's enough for one person but I have other stuff. My son is graduating from high school in 10 days and I have a big party to plan in June, plus tons of college stuff, financial, paperwork, visits, obligations, etc. - and she just doesn't understand, or care, about that stuff at all. Just be sure you're here every other day to bring me my meals, clean my toilet, etc. All the stuff she doesn't 'trust' the AL staff to get done correctly. Ahem...
When I told her that I need a job to help my son with college, she shut down and quit talking to me. That hurts so bad. Yet she still expects me to do my duty when she has a dining room and staff on hand.
I don't sleep well either. Yuck!