One Rough Night

Yesterday was a rough night for me (and so subsequently Ian too). There was many factors that made it very sleepless for me, which usually means I keep Ian up. He's a very light sleeper, especially compared to me (who usually can sleep anywhere at any time of the day - naps are my friend!) And of course in the couple hours of sleep I do get sleep, I tend to snore (a new thing since I've gotten pregnant)... And I don't think I snore lightly either. Sometime actually I think I snore so loud and I've finally gotten to sleep and am so exhausted, Ian can't wake me or move me in any way so I stop. Poor tired Ian.

Well, to start off the rough night, I was completely tired from all the fun activities of Saturday (a baby shower and a celebration dinner with Ian's family for his grandparents' birthdays)... and so was tired all day Sunday... leading right up to bedtime. But my body was not tired. I had also taken a nap in the afternoon, so that might have thrown me off a little. I hate it when you're exhausted.. but either your head or your body is still saying "Sleep? I don't need sleep"

Then add a leg cramp (a charlie horse kind) that I had two days ago, but just won't completely go away. After a little bit of lying down in bed, I feel the cramp starting to get closer and closer to cramping up and I try little tricks to keep it from going full blown. This usually just staves it off for a few minutes and then I'm right back where I started. This on top of the fact that I'm not altogether comfortable in bed anymore because of my big belly, sleeping on my side (which I really don't like much, especially since it usually makes either some part of my body numb or my hip hurt) and having two huge body pillows for support while still trying to give Ian some room for his own tossing and turning that he has to do so he can breathe through the night.

Next, put in a sore throat I developed sometime on Sunday which by night is really hurting and sort of has that "spreading to the ears" feeling. So, of course, being mostly awake with a sore throat and not sleeping... I get up to get a glass of OJ. Of which then I discover a "visitor" - a smallish sized cockroach which is not as slow or as stupid as the few others larger cockroaches that have sporadically visited our apartment. (I'm talking like 3 in the last year, not a lot of them) He (I will assume) scurries under furniture and little gaps between doorways and the tile floor (where I can't reach him) whenever I finally find something that I can smash him with. All our other "visitors" met a very quick demise as they also ran off in the open and were pretty slow. So of course, the next time Ian gets up to go to the bathroom I let him know of the cockroach... but it is nowhere to be found. Darn. (I'd much rather Ian kill the cockroach than I) But of course since I get up three times more than Ian to frequent our bathroom, I continue to see the cockroach but only manage to scare it out of reach for a few hours. Double Darn. Ian's been calling our "visitor" the Phantom Cockroach because he has yet to actually see it. I think it will probably reappear tonight... hopefully in sight of Ian and finally meet its end!

But really the biggest thing keeping me up was my sore throat... which by this time today (Monday afternoon) has grown into a runny nose, snuffy head, no fever (which is very good), sneezing, somewhat sore throat cold. I guess the good thing is that I did have a prenatal appointment today and had my ObGyn take a quick look into my throat and she said it just looks a little red (no strep). Oh and on a slightly funny note, when I told her I had felt like I was getting sick and had a sore throat, she said "Me too". And then I told her I didn't sleep at all last night, she again said "Me too". So I guess I'm not the only one... but at least I'm not working.

Well that's enough of my nighttime adventures. Wish me luck for sleep tonight... because I want to get better soon.

P.S. I'm going to try to get Ian to blog sometime soon too... he probably has an interesting (And different) take on things like last night... we'll see, we'll see.