THERE ARE DAY PEOPLE AND THERE ARE NIGHT PEOPLE. In years past, I enjoyed watching the Johnny Carson ‘Tonight’ show before retiring. That was so long ago that it seems now as if it was a prior life. I would imagine that the majority of people hit the sack about ten or eleven o’clock at night. Our bodies fall into a routine and when the inner clock announces it is ready, off we go. Somehow, over the past couple of years, I have fallen into a classic early-to-bed, early-to-rise habit. I get into bed around 6:30 or 7:00 PM, read for approximately thirty minutes, then turn out the light. I fall asleep face down with a pillow tucked just above my stoma, eventually turning onto my back. I’m awake and up around 3 AM. The cats await me, anticipating breakfast. About 4:30 or 5 AM, after I’ve fed them, I go out to walk. It’s dark, quiet, perfect. I have three different routes currently. My head and my feet confer on which one I’ll take on any given morning. Loss of daylight saving time was barely a blip on my radar. I do my three miles and I’m home before my neighbors retrieve their newspapers from their driveways. Then the momentous moment arrives: I put a pot of coffee on! The gurgling sound that accompanies the brewing process signals the official beginning of the day.
1. Dating and relationships
2. Concealing the pouch
3. Foods to eat and avoid
4. Losing or gaining weight
5. Pouch ballooning
Very interesting in what you say. I have been thinking that I should probably do the same thing! I am quite early into a stoma after an emergency Iliostomy. It's such a change in my lifestyle that I am now realising I will have to adjust rather than fight it. I have to get up 2 or 3 times a night and the longest periods I sleep for is about 2&1/2 hours. Awake then after an hour I get back to sleep. I don't think I will ever see a whole nights sleep again! I've always enjoyed the solitude of a walk in the dark and so I now have the perfect opportunity! Thanks for the prompt and to know I will not be the only one! 😁
| scotstoun wrote: Very interesting in what you say. I have been thinking that I should probably do the same thing! I am quite early into a stoma after an emergency Iliostomy. It's such a change in my lifestyle that I am now realising I will have to adjust rather than fight it. I have to get up 2 or 3 times a night and the longest periods I sleep for is about 2&1/2 hours. Awake then after an hour I get back to sleep. I don't think I will ever see a whole nights sleep again! I've always enjoyed the solitude of a walk in the dark and so I now have the perfect opportunity! Thanks for the prompt and to know I will not be the only one! 😁 |
I doubt I've ever slept thru the night with this ileostomy. But you get accustomed to it and can fall back to sleep pretty quickly.
