Why are so many of us afflicted with sleep deprivation? I
wake up from three to five in the morning and can't get back
to sleep.

Last night, I took two trazedone tablets and a sleeping pill
and had the first good nights sleep in weeks. I feel so
relaxed and so much more ready to attack the chores at hand.
I even made biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast. I
had never heard of sausage gravy until I met Ted. His mother
stretched out the sausage to feed 6 boys by crumbling it, cooking it and then making gravy over it. I am a convert.

Because of wet weather, our storm cellar has been postponed
to Tuesday. The contractor can't risk getting his equipment
stuck when he unloads the dirt. I missed my Christmas
luncheon because he didn't tell me until too late to go.

I know that I worry all the time about Ted and Bobby and
push it down below the level of conciseness. Perhaps that
is what wakes me up but it also keeps me coping with
the every day tasks around me. At any rate sleeping pills
are a rare luxury and only to be resorted to when desperate. I have read of their effects on brain health.