If you have been reading my recent posts, you may recall that I have commented on a change in Kate’s sleeping pattern over the past several weeks. She has been sleeping later than usual. I have had to waken her a couple of times around 10:00 or so to get someplace. Most of the time I simply let her sleep as long as she wants. One day she slept until 12:20. There have been several days she slept until 11:00 or after.
During this same time period, there have been a few days when she has gotten up early. One of those days was this morning. I was working in the kitchen when she walked in about 8:10. She was dressed and ready to go to Panera. Then I had to get ready, but we were there by 8:30. That is still earlier than our average arrival time before she started sleeping later.
I wondered how the morning would go since I knew she wouldn’t want to remain at Panera until lunch time. As it turned out, she was ready to leave by 9:30. She was tired and wanted to rest. She came inside and is still in bed at 10:25. I hope she will get up shortly so that I can get her lunch before I have to leave for Rotary. The sitter is scheduled to arrive at noon. If she is not awake before 11:00, I’ll get her up.
Over the seven years since her diagnosis, she has made a number of changes in her sleep habits. When first diagnosed, she wasn’t sleeping well at night. That led to her sleeping later in the morning. A little later she settled into a fairly regular sleep routine. I think we can thank Trazadone for that.
(At this point, Kate walked into the room. She was ready to return to Panera.)
We are now at Panera, she apparently had enough time to rest. This works out well for me because it also gives us plenty of time to get her a sandwich before we go back to the house to meet the sitter, and I leave for Rotary.
As I was saying, Kate got into a pretty regular sleep routine. She usually awoke fairly early (between 7:30 and 8:30). She got up, got some apple juice and yogurt, and returned to our bedroom where she worked jigsaw puzzles on her iPad. That continued for a long time until the past few months. She started getting up slightly later and getting dressed. After that, she was ready for Panera. That meant she was drinking less juice and eating less yogurt. A couple of weeks I had to throw out yogurt that had expired. I had already stockpiled a good bit of apple juice. Now I am only buying V8 for myself.
At first, I thought that the current change might be caused by our having the flu, but she has continued to sleep later, and it was well beyond the time we recovered. The problem that her sleeping later presents for me is that I spend less time with her in the morning. In addition, I sometimes have to rush her a bit for us to get lunch before the sitter arrives. I guess time will tell where this is going.
