Update on Sleeping

The time is 11:39 a.m. as I begin this post. Exactly one hour ago, I tried to wake Kate up so that we could have lunch before the sitter arrives at 1:00. She finally got up about five minutes ago. As I have noted in recent posts, she has been sleeping later over the past couple of weeks. One Saturday, I let her sleep until 11:30. Another day I woke her at 12:20. In each of those cases, she got up without a problem. I can’t account for why it has been so difficult for her to get up today. She went to bed around the same time as usual. The past couple of days she has slept until ten o’clock. At first, I was associating her sleeping later to the impact of having had the flu. Now I am wondering if this might not be another of those normal symptoms of her Alzheimer’s. Of course, it could be some combination of the two.

This morning, I received a reminder that I have an ophthalmologist’s appointment at 10:15 Friday morning. That makes me wonder how much trouble I may have getting her up and ready to go with me. I don’t want to leave her alone. At the time I made the appointment, I would not have thought it would be a problem for Kate to be ready that early in the day. At least we are not going out the night before.

This is just one more of the many little things that crop up that would have been of no consequence before Alzheimer’s.