Kathi-about the sleep study. Don't know how good your sleep medicine folks are where you are. I went to medical school at Penn State and when I was there, the chairman of our psych dept was a guru of sleep medicine so we had a state of the art sleep lab. I used to draw blood for them for extra money and hook people up at night with all their wires. At any rate, depends on what you are being tested for. Sometimes they would have people come in every night for a week because they knew it was not something they were necessarily going to catch on the first night. Night terrors and sleepwalking (the kind that kids have and what you are describing kind of sounds like that) occur in the deepest stages of sleep. Stage 3 and 4-not REM sleep where we do most of our dreaming. They are a true sleep disorder. So unless there is something more to this than you are talking about here (which may be appropriate) it is unlikely a nightlight is going to solve the problem. Just FYI, we are actually paralyzed during REM sleep to keep us from acting out our dreams under normal circumstances. If you have ever woken up during a nightmare, you may have had this experience of being terrified and not being able to move-that's why. Enough of the sleep medicine lecture this morning. I'm jealous of your farmer's market. The only meat I can get at our local "open air market". I wouldn't call it a farmer's market is goat meat. Lots of produce but no other meat.
I have 2 delirium consults to do today. I guess not enough people attended my lecture last weekend
Only 2 admissions but here a hospital from a neighboring town wants to send us a patient. I'll have to look at that this morning.
I was wondering where Heidi was but then I remembered it was Passover this week and I imagine she is busy with that. Hoping you are enjoying some nice family time. Let us know if Elijah comes to dinner.
Deb-my palm trees look awful. They really took a beating this winter. I don't know if you know this but they bite! Palm fronds have teeth so pruning them is a bit precarious. Mine are so tall at this point I have to climb a ladder or hire someone to climb a ladder and do it. Palms also grow like no other plants I have ever had. They were in my yard when I got here-not sure they would have been my choice to plant. I love Magnolias and would have probably preferred a big southern magnolia in my front yard. The tree that everyone is most fond of down here is the live oak. You see them everywhere. They are not like oak trees up north.
Wizzie-I keep saying I want to grow vegetables and it never happens. I would have to make above ground boxes (I forget what you call those) to plant in because our soil here is horrible. Actually it isn't soil, it's sand. One of these years, I'll do it. I have grown herbs and that has worked pretty well. I may do that again. I like being able to just go outside and snip whatever herbs I want to put in my food rather than worrying about whether or not I can find it at the grocery store.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate-don't eat too much candy. That's a reminder to me too. I've had a few pieces at the hospital. Not good for the sugar addict.
