Tiredness

I’ve been very tired lately. Not sure if it’s just dialysis catching up to me, or my inability to sleep well at night. After dialysis this morning, I went and got some lunch and charge my car. I got home at around 11:30 am and took a nap. I think I woke up at 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm but went back to sleep. I didn’t get up until around 7:00 pm to eat dinner. After dinner, I cleaned up a pile of paperwork, then napped a bit more. Now it’s 11:30 pm and I probably slept 10 out of the last 12 hours and I’m still tired.

I probably won’t be able to sleep tonight though. My biorhythm is all messed up.

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I’ve been trying to sleep during dialysis without much success. It’s mainly because of the sucky chairs. When it’s fully reclined, the chair is not exactly flat, and my feet are dangling of the end of the footrest. If I stay in that position, my back starts to hurt after about 30 minutes. Today however, I tried leaning a bit to my right, since sleeping to the left still puts pressure on my heart and chest cavity. I had to be careful because of all the tubing and I couldn’t move my right arm, but was able to rotate about 30-40 degrees to take some pressure off my back. It wasn’t exactly comfy but I was able to fall asleep for about an hour. I’m going to try that on Sunday to see if I can get more rotation and a bit more sleep.