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A Big Surprise2

…not.

I believe I mentioned that our reliable night time nurse who I liked recently had to disappear for a while due to some kind of family emergency. She is still not back, but the nursing agency called at the beginning of the week to say that they had someone else who could do some nights, and she would be coming to orient on Thursday morning.

I’m sure you can all see where I’m going with this.

That’s right. She never showed up.

The agency claims they were notified, but if they were, why the hell didn’t they bother to call us?! We have had this discussion with them mutiple times in the past. We are not psychic. Perhaps we are also too trusting. When we’re told someone will be showing up to work, we are surprised when they fail to appear. This seems to be a less universal attitude than I would have expected…

Compounding the lack of nursing has been Dorrie’s horrid sleeping this past week. After a really good run of 4 or 5 days in a row week before last where she had a good nap during the day and was asleep by 9:30pm at night, from Sunday she has been refusing to nap more than about 20 minutes during the day. The problem? She’s still a baby who needs a nap. By the time we hit 6 or 7pm, she’s got so many bags under her eyes that it makes you yawn to just look at her. And quite a few times she just poops out on us. We’d be fine with that — if she stayed asleep for the rest of the night. Instead, she treats that as her nap, wakes up a little after 8 and is ready to party until dawn. Sunday night she went to sleep at 1:30am. Monday was midnight. Tuesday was 1am. And so on through the week until we hit tonight’s record of 1:45am. Bob thought it was the time change, but I don’t think that could have affected her nearly this much. I don’t see how one hour change could screw up her sleeping schedule to the tune of 4-5 hours.

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