Last night, I was able to sleep for a full seven hours.
- Now to most people I know this does not seem like a great accomplishment.
Many people have the ability to sleep a good eight hours a night and for the life of me I will never comprehend that. I, on the other hand, average about five on a normal basis. Of late, this has been cut to one to two hours, followed by several awake or half awake. The reason for this is the fact that I have been dealing with the effects of the flu for nearly a week. Running a fever off and on has made the house extremely uncomfortable and I am either freezing cold or feel like I have just stepped into a sauna. My body temperature is off so much that it makes it impossible to sleep. My poor husband has tried to help by adjusting the HVAC system to accommodate my feelings, but, by the time it changes the temperature in the house, I am feeling the opposite and need to change the thermostat again. I told him that he was only taxing the unit and running up the energy bills by constantly changing the temperature. Hopefully now that I am feeling better this won’t be a problem any longer either. We have decided to look into a couple of portable units that can be used for situations like this in the future. We figure that if one of us comes down with an illness like that again, we can simply utilize them in one bedroom and not have to try adjusting the whole house to make the other person comfortable.