Jun 24 2008
What It Takes to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
What do you get when you cross strep throat, ADHD medication, antibiotics and a power outage? In this house you finally get to sleep!
Gus woke up three nights in a row: Saturday, Sunday and yesterday around three in the morning each day. I thought it was the Strattera messing around with his sleep cycle. But apparently, he had strep throat. One would think that it would make him extra tired, and it did, except instead of sleeping at night or sleeping late in the mornings, he was conking out midday.
We took him to the doctor yesterday and she prescribed an antibiotic, which knocked him out, again, in the middle of the day. I had no expectation that I’d get to sleep all night. But that was before I factored in the power outage!
We came home from the doctor to a power outage that was supposed to last a couple of hours and ended up lasting overnight. Gus was less stressed by the changes in routine (or maybe these outages are becoming too routine) than usual, and he went to bed exactly on time. And slept. Until five-thirty! Miraculous!
Was it the absence of the noise machine? Was he feeling better after a couple of doses of Amoxicillin? Maybe it was the soft yellow glow of candlelight instead of the harsh blue of his night light. Who knows? All I know is that he had a full night of rest, and so did I. I may just schedule a mini-blackout every time he gets sick or has trouble sleeping.
I’ve been yearning for a good night’s sleep FOREVER. Maybe I’ll try this combo. LOL!
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sound like you have a fun night…NOT!
I had to take my 3 year old to the er the other day… not fun… my seven year old feel on her, she could not move hare arm and would not stop crying… I check her from top to bottom but noting was viable… Ive seen broke bones, I’ve have them too and they swell really fast but nothing… so after that we thought there must be something we are missing. I life the older kids wiht mom and off we went… She was not crying now she was ready to fall asleep.. my first thought was it could be a head injury and I was alway thought not to let them sleep…so I kept yell at her to “stay away baby, come on stay awake”
We got to the ER, and two whours later after all the drama the x-ray showed no break and the doctor did not even wan to put a cast… she was bouncing around and playing link nothing happened… But all in all it was still good because me the my baby got to spent some 1 one 1one time with out the other three… just wish she did not have to almost break her arm to do it.