I had to stay up all night last night, doctor's orders. Why? Because I had sleep-deprived EEG testing scheduled for 11:00 am today. For some reason staying up all night last night was amazingly hard for me, probably due to the fact that Tuesday is the busiest day of the week for me. I worked 8 hours, exercised an hour, then went to class from 7 to 10 pm. Yes I'm sure you oldsters have it tougher but I'm a youngin' and I'm not used to this treatment. Anyway I started off the night okay with the aid of TV, but once Brandon decided to go to sleep things got difficult. Sleep sounded nice. It got cold, so I turned on the heater. Things got too warm and cozy and I woke up with a numb foot and the dvd player on screensaver mode. That equaled out to about three hours of sleep, I think.

So about the test, which began after some mass confusion because the test was to be given at a different location than before and the technician was 30 min late. I couldn't stinkin' fall asleep! The clock next to me ticked super loud. The technician's typing left me curious as to what he could possibly be saying. In the hall, nurses and patients chatted and laughed loudly, slamming doors and making plenty of noise. Then, any time some one in the room next to us used the plumbing, it sounded like the pipes were about to burst into our room. So frustrating, because without me falling alseep the test was pointless. Before I left the technician said, "you know, we may need to have you stay awake two nights and have some sort of sedative next time." Yeah right, two nights. Just find a quiet room.