Insomnia
I’ve never been able to manage well on less than 8 hours sleep. Less than 4 (without any interruptions) and I’m unable to function - I can’t drive and am uncharactistically tetchy. Now normally, I could sleep through a nuclear blast: I can usually nod off regardless of noise, light and even comfort. Even when I’m ill I just “sleep through it” (albeit slightly more figity than my normal corpselike stillness). So what happened last night? I slept for about an hour and then was very, very awake. After watching the clock tick ahead minute by minute (no easy feat when you have a focal distance of 4 inches without glasses) for an hour, I decided to get up and have a drink and read for a bit. After another hour I was more awake, and also grouchy as the incessent random blue flashing of the Wii in standby mode was driving me up the wall. Back to bed and I was still no closer to a blissful slumber.
Of course, by that stage, I’d wound myself up so much that I had no chance. Part of me considered getting up and going to work, or working on my thesis. I think my brain was too active :(. I finally manged to get about 3 hours but am in a miserable mood and very tired. I guess there’s far too much going on in my head to relax properly and it’s all work related… but that’s a whole other post waiting to happen….
) and I got carted away to the medical center. I had it in my mind that I had broken a rib or two as the pain felt similar to my last bike crash but it turned out it was a torn muscle, probably my left ‘Lat’ (Latissimus dorsi).
