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Madamhoney · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

I know ALL about sleep deprivation believe me!!! For the past 3 weeks the old lady next door to me has had her telly on blaring all night!! I've been round several times but she suffers from dementia and won't have it that it's the middle of the f'n night!!! Or that it's on loud. I have been so tired that I don't know what I'm doing or saying and find myself just stopping what I'm doing and crying for no reason at all.

In the past I have not slept, at all, for 4 days on the run and I was really ill, I got a very high temperature and even started hallucinating!!! People don't realise what being REALLY tired is and how dangerous going without sleep can be.

Still, you will have your kiddies won't you!

Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6071

Does she have family who visit or a carer you could talk to Honey? If she's by herself then she really should have someone staying with her or checking up on her.

Madamhoney · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:46 am Post subject:

I've spoken to her daughter the last time she went through a phase like this, she came round to the house for a chat and that's when I found out she had started with dementia. She did say to ring her again if there were any more problems but we didn't like to bother her over Christmas & NY so my husband is going to ring her this week. Although thankfully the last 2 nights have been quiet. There's not a lot you can do though, she (presumably) isn't doing it maliciously and you wouldn't believe some of the cuckoo conversation I've had with her when I've been round in the middle of the night!! She asked me last time if there was any time in the evening I wasn't in bed, I said I don't go to bed in the evening, it's the middle of the night!!! It was about 2.30am!

Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6071

At least she's lucid some of the time which is good, but it doesn't help much when you're trying to sleep! You'll feel on edge too waiting to see if it'll be one of her good nights or not! I suppose she'll have to be assessed every now and then to see if the dementia's going worse..... and she could have to go into a home or her daughter will have to look after her.

You can get soundproof panels for your walls to try and cut down the noise from next door, or maybe move the bed to another part of the bedroom away from the wall where you hear her tv the most.......but if her tv's on full blast you'll still hear it I suppose!

lord vader · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3106 Location: scotland

well having dementia is like having a mad dose of morphen , all they talk is jigerish ,
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Madamhoney · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9347

Would you not think of getting earplugs Honey?

It might be the more economical and less hassle alternative?
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Madamhoney · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject:

I've tried that clever clogs!! I can't stand having ear plugs in though, it feels like your ears are blocked and you can hear every noise amplified in your head by a million like breathing, or the covers brushing against you, or your heart beat. I can stand it for about 10 minutes then have to take them out and put up with the telly instead.

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9347

You offer an alternative and your attacked for it

How can noises be amplified in your head Honey? I don't know which one I'd hate to live next door to most?

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6071

Believe it or not Luc but Honey's right

I know I had a plug of cotton wool in my ear once when I was a child (think I had earache!) and every time I moved in bed the rustling was deafening! It's probably something to do with vibrations and noises being distorted in the ears from the plugs!