Sometimes I think I am laying in bed with a train. Or maybe it is a tug boat. I am not sure really. All I know is that Mike snores really, really loudly. He has been known to wake up a sleeping baby. This is part of the reason Joley doesn’t sleep in our room anymore. Sadly, it isn’t just him snoring. Our dog, Lucky, snores badly too. She snores because of the damage that she sustained when she was hit by a car. Mike, on the other hand, doesn’t have such an excuse.
We have tried all kinds of treatments for his snoring. Nothing has worked. He needs to have a sleep study done but his insurance won’t cover it. Honestly though, I am not sure sleeping next to a CPAP machine will be any better than the snoring! At this point we are out of options (except some mouth guard thing but I am tired of throwing money away).
I often wake up because of something else (Joley fussing, dog whining, cat jumping on my head… ya know, normal stuff) and then can’t go back to sleep because of the noise next to me. Sometimes I just wake up because he is snoring so badly. I push him, hit him and get loud with him (you have to get pretty loud for him to hear you over his own snoring) trying to get him to stop. It makes for long and frustrating nights.
Why am I boring you with this snoring talk? I have a lot of time at night now and I was curious about what that means for others. For me, it means I have found one more reason I love my blackberry. I can lay in bed during these times I am unable to sleep and mess with my phone. My favorite thing to do is chat on Twitter but it gets lonely late at night. I also play around on Google and look for apps. After I have exhausted my blackberry options, I turn to an old trick to fall asleep. I start daydreaming about something that makes me happy. When I was trying to conceive, it was how I would tell Mike I was pregnant. When I was pregnant, it was about the birth of my baby. Now, I think about being a midwife or blogging. Yes, I think about blogging. For that reason, I love my blackberry even more. There is a list function and I add to my list every night of things I want to talk about. Most of the time, this trick works and I am quickly asleep. It seems like if I want to continue my daydream, I will fall asleep every time.
So, what do you do when you can’t sleep? Oh, and any suggestions on how to make my husband stop waking me up with his snoring… besides kicking him out of my bedroom?
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