Thursday, February 12, 2009

Postscript

(After which, I will stop complaining!)

One of my pet peeves is when people, after a swim or bike workout or a long run, complacently tell me, "You'll sleep like a baby tonight!" Babies do not in any case sleep very well, for the most part; and there is honestly no amount of exercise that makes me likely to be able to fall and stay asleep!

Once this book is finished, I think I have to take the plunge and cut out caffeine completely - it never seems like a good time, but it is not possible to retain anything of the moral high ground vis-a-vis insomnia if one is also a coffee-drinker...

3 comments:

Leah said...

Yes, babies do not sleep well in my experience!

ShirleyPerly said...

My husband has insomnia too and a few yrs ago started occasionally taking sleeping pills to get a good night's rest at least a couple times a week. I'm not sure that's the best answer but there was no way he was going to give up his diet coke. Hope your book is done soon!

Brent Buckner said...

Tricky to time the withdrawal appropriately with respect to work and travel....