Saturday is much better
Mar. 29th, 2025 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI will catch up on blogging.
Slept in, cleaned my sheets. I had a visit with M. I brought some stuff from the attic room — which STILL is not empty — down to the basement. But a lot of what is left is purely R.’s and he wants to sort through and get rid of things (which I am in favor of) so it’s taking a bit. I did get a bunch of exercise going up and down, tho. I also listed a few things (a keyboard tray, a keyboard and mouse, a desk lamp). I don’t think any of it will move, but you never know.
R. and I had a late lunch at Benjarong and strategized how to handle A.’s schedule. I’ve concluded that trying to maintain a consistent getting-up-time is not leading to her being willing to go to bed at a reasonable hour (and when I do, she wakes me up at 2:30 in the morning). Even if we split things up, she would be getting increasingly sleep deprived, and she is already popping more symptoms. Sleep deprivation is a known risk for seizure and mania, in addition to increased symptoms with personality disorder, and all of those are well represented in our extended family.
So in the interests of all of us having a better life, I’m going to take over mornings so R. can sleep in, and he can respond to requests for meds to help with burping / reflux / etc. in the middle of the night. She has already asked for gas-X to have in her room so she doesn’t have to ask someone else for it, which seems really fine since it’s hard to imagine getting into trouble with that medication. R. can supervise the pepcid. By taking over the morning routine, I am going to work on speeding up the various elements of it (especially the hair, but other parts as well), with a view to getting the whole routine to 45 minutes so she can get up at 9, instead of sometime between 8 and 8:30.
She’s got a lot of days in her schedule this term where her first class is lunch at 12:30 or 1:30 if she has lunch at home. That’ll be interesting. If it is literally one class, it’s worth it to just sit there and wait for her to be done. And R. wants to make an appointment at the Apple Store for a longer day to have his phone battery replaced. But we’ll figure that stuff out on a day by day basis. Fingers crossed we can all have a better sleep pattern going forward.
Slept in, cleaned my sheets. I had a visit with M. I brought some stuff from the attic room — which STILL is not empty — down to the basement. But a lot of what is left is purely R.’s and he wants to sort through and get rid of things (which I am in favor of) so it’s taking a bit. I did get a bunch of exercise going up and down, tho. I also listed a few things (a keyboard tray, a keyboard and mouse, a desk lamp). I don’t think any of it will move, but you never know.
R. and I had a late lunch at Benjarong and strategized how to handle A.’s schedule. I’ve concluded that trying to maintain a consistent getting-up-time is not leading to her being willing to go to bed at a reasonable hour (and when I do, she wakes me up at 2:30 in the morning). Even if we split things up, she would be getting increasingly sleep deprived, and she is already popping more symptoms. Sleep deprivation is a known risk for seizure and mania, in addition to increased symptoms with personality disorder, and all of those are well represented in our extended family.
So in the interests of all of us having a better life, I’m going to take over mornings so R. can sleep in, and he can respond to requests for meds to help with burping / reflux / etc. in the middle of the night. She has already asked for gas-X to have in her room so she doesn’t have to ask someone else for it, which seems really fine since it’s hard to imagine getting into trouble with that medication. R. can supervise the pepcid. By taking over the morning routine, I am going to work on speeding up the various elements of it (especially the hair, but other parts as well), with a view to getting the whole routine to 45 minutes so she can get up at 9, instead of sometime between 8 and 8:30.
She’s got a lot of days in her schedule this term where her first class is lunch at 12:30 or 1:30 if she has lunch at home. That’ll be interesting. If it is literally one class, it’s worth it to just sit there and wait for her to be done. And R. wants to make an appointment at the Apple Store for a longer day to have his phone battery replaced. But we’ll figure that stuff out on a day by day basis. Fingers crossed we can all have a better sleep pattern going forward.