5-Hours of Sleep

For the last few nights I’ve been waking up at 3 or 4AM and not being able to go back to sleep. This seems to be a side-effect of the Prednisone I’m taking for my current bout of back and hand pain . Insomnia is listed as a short term side-effect - short-term side-effects include insomnia, euphoria, and, rarely, mania. Long-term side-effects include Cushing's syndrome, weight gain, osteoporosis, glaucoma, type II diabetes mellitus, and depression upon withdrawal. Looking at the long term effects I understand why the doctor doesn’t prescribe the stuff for long periods. It does work well in easing pain.

We are sill rearranging the house and have made good progress. The weather has been ugly so working inside isn’t too bad. My outside storage work has progressed well. Now we are sorting, trashing and stashing things. We have a large family of medium sized stuffed animals—mainly teddy bears—that could use a good home. For now they are sitting on Christy’s bed. Only Johnny Bear is protected from eventually going to stuffed animal heaven.

Today being Saturday we will do our Waffle House breakfast. It then will be back to the room and storage shuffle.

KITTY UPDATE—All 5 cats have been showing up consistently. They are getting comfortable with us being home all day. It’s going to be interesting next weekend when we have 2 dogs taking over the backyard. The cats usually dissapear for those periods but maybe they can work out some compromise.

We had a visit by a big racoon yesterday. When I woke at 4AM and looked out there he was looking back at me. The cats were out there with him. I chased him off with the super soaker. I haven’t seen him this morning but I,m sure he will be back. He eats a lot, too. He’ll probably invite his family with him. At least my feeder is sturdy enough to handle their assalts.

Last night when I fed the cats it was wet on the back deck. For some reason all 4 “kittens” wanted to stand on my lap with their wet little paws. When I came inside I my jeans were soaked with kitty pawprints.

Well, it is time to awaken the wife and head out to Waffle House.

Good Morning !