Things One Can Learn Early in the Morning in the Middle of the Night

I am not at the Worship Center dedication today. I would love to be and have it in my sights to get there tomorrow for the 9:10 service. My quick update would be, breathing is becoming easier and not so painful, cough has turned nasty, made it two nights not throwing up, but I threw up this morning. My stamina is low and to top it all off I could not fall asleep last night. I rarely suffer from any type of insomnia and fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, but that has not been the case lately. Partly this is due to the fact that I am coming off non narcotic pain meds although it feels like I am.

Had this great idea, take the feather beds off our bed and put them on the bed in the guest room. Not bad, but got dust stirred up. Roy is a trooper helping me, well actually doing all the things I can't do right now. We also put on clean sheets, but this set is my least favorite and that contributed to my sleeplessness too.

So, last night here is what I learned. There ain't one good program on TV in the middle of the night. I could have bought several life changing products though. In fact I had just cancelled my monthly order of Dr. Franks, Stop Pain Now yesterday. I ordered that the last time I stayed up late and that was during the Christmas holidays. I read for a while. Thought about breaking out the Leave it to Beaver DVD's but decided that would just make me want to stay up and watch. Thought about posting on the blog, but writing invigorates me.

Pleurisy gives the opportunity to make all kinds of noises one never thought in their wildest dreams they could make. I was in the kitchen leaning on the counter when I heard the loveliest chirping of birds in the middle of the night. I soon came to realize it was just a weird whistle sound coming out of my nose. There are times the wheezing seems so bad, that I thought Buddy was lying by my side. Only then to realize that sound is coming out of my throat and not Buddy. There are times when both the whistle and the wheez come at the same time. Kind of reminds me of choir, whistle is soprano like and wheez is more like alto. This past week I have awakened me out of deep, deep sleep with all this noise. Combine that with Roy's snoring, no wonder Buddy has been sleeping in the living room of late.

Last night I learned you should never put Vick's Vapo Rub up your nose. Well, that is what the package says. Vick's has been my fragrance of choice the past few days.

A re-write of the words to a song came to me early in the morning in the middle of the night. Need to tell my friends I have the jest of the song, now need to fine tune it.

I got desperate... I remembered the story of Peter, James and John not being able to stay awake. That is when I decided I would pray and that being biblical and all, I would fall asleep. Actually, if you read this blog and I know your name, you were prayed for last night. If you read this blog and I don't know your name, you were prayed for last night. People kept coming to mind and I just kept bringing them to the Lord. I laid out my own heart last night with Him and gave Him my questions and my heartfelt desire for His answers. Finally, at 3:50 am when I laid my head down, I knew this time I would fall asleep.

At 5:15 am Roy wakes me up with a thank you. What???? My nose whistle woke him up better than any alarm clock. He was meeting his walking group at 6:00 am and had almost overslept. Glad to be of help dear...