Sleeping when you get older doesn't seem to work as well

 I think this started for me when I started to get Atrial Fibrillation in my heart. Then I got better and better medicines for this and finally in 2020 I got a defibrillator pacemaker put in.

When I went to Haleakala to the top of the road there on Maui I was amazed after the pace maker because the previous time I had almost passed out there at 10,000 feet at the top of the road the last time I was there before I got my pacemaker installed.

However, as you age things can change and one of the things I deal with often is if I go to sleep around 10 pm I then wake up at midnight or 1 am or even 2 am or 3 am. Then if I can't go back to sleep I'm up blogging or watching the news on TV or a movie until I can get tired enough to go back to sleep. So, it isn't that I can't sleep it's that I can't always sleep from about 1 am to 3 am. Of course then I have to get enough sleep at almost 77 this month so then I often have to sleep until I get around 8 hours of sleep between the 10 to 1 and whenever I got to sleep before noon that day. Which is kind of strange because often that means I'm awake 4 hours or so from midnight until 4 AM by myself either blogging like right now or watching TV (the news or a movie). Like right now it's 2 am and I'm watching one of my favorite movies that Tom Cruise has ever made that was made in 2010 with Cameron Diaz called "Knight and Day"(2010).

So, hopefully I will get tired enough to know I can go back to sleep soon. I don't like taking any sleeping pills because then you spend the next day kind of wondering who you are and I don't like that. I prefer to know who I am 24 hours a day.

And because I'm mostly retired this sort of works for me except I'm usually up alone from midnight to 2 or 3 or 4 am depending upon the night. However, it does give me time to think about things but most of the time I would rather just be asleep.

But, then again, I'm almost 77 years old and I'm basically lucky to still be alive at all and have had to watch 2 of my best friends die already one in 2006 and one in 2011. So, since I have a good family with 3 biological kids all now adults and a good wife I try to stay alive for them so they don't have to grieve for me like I grieved for my Dad from the time I was 37 when he died until I was about 50 and almost died myself.

Since almost dying myself I have done a lot better just because I'm now grateful for every moment I have left that God Chooses to give me.

by God's Grace