Sleep is AWESOME!

Sleep... it's awesome when we get to have some.  Last night, we all got our rest.... even me!

The hypnosis recording appears to be working great for my mom. 

Last night just before she listened to her recording she said to me, "Susie, I want to find my words. I want to be able to talk to everyone again."


I explained to my mom how I studied Clinical Hypnotherapy and I believe that we can re-wire her brain so that it bypasses the areas that are causing her trouble. Explaining the process to her, she sat attentitively and listened. She was interested in what I had to say!

She asked again, "Susie, please help me find my words, it's what I want very badly."

"Great!" I replied.

Continuing, I said to her, "Ma, one of the messages that I had put on the recording states just that... "I easily find my words!" Using my best hypnosis voice, I began to say the phrase with enthusiasm and lots of happy emotion, my mom began to repeat the phrase with me.

"I easily find my words!" My mom exclaimed.

"Excellent, Ma. Now let's put the headphones on and listen to the recording so that your subconscious hears it. Let's begin the rewiring!"


"See you in the morning, Ma.  I love you!"  I said to my mom after tucking her in.

"Oakey Doakey, Dear, I love you too." She sang.

YES!  She was happy and smiling.  The frown was turned upside down.  Wooo hooo!

My mom woke up after me this morning.  She is happy.  She isn't trying to avoid walking on the dark areas of the carpeting, as though she's going to fall into a hole.  Her speach is clear, free of stuttering.  She is finding her words, the most important thing to my mom these days.

Now as for me, the reason I slept is because of my Valentine's Day gift from my dear sweet husband.  I am at the age where I have night sweats at night with hot flashes.  Nothing worse than being woken up from being too hot and sweating, even when the room temperature is set to 50 degrees F!  My husband, he toughs it out going to sleep in heavy sweats and extra blankets. 

Last week he was getting ready for work and Rachel Ray came on TV.  He saw a clip about remedies for hot flashes, my biggest issue.  If it's not my mom keeping me awake at night, it's the hot flashes and night sweats. 

The women on the show were each given  a remedy to try, including the Chillow, a new pillow.  The women who used the Chillow were genuinely excited about it and talked how well it helped them to sleep.  There was a female doctor on the show who swore by the Chillow for helping women with hot flashes.

My husband... he got me one for Valentine's Day.  Last night, I used it for the first time.  I can NOT believe how awesome my new pillow is.  I slept through the night.  When I felt myself getting hot, I moved my head to a different part of the pillow and I heard sizzling sounds.  The pillow began to get cold and my hotflashes WENT AWAY!  No night sweating either. 

I highly recommend the Chillow if you are having hot flashes keep you awake at night.  I love my Chillow.  I have included a link to Amazon so that you can buy one for yourself and get a good night sleep too.

Love that Melatonin!

Last night, I was well prepared to have a good night sleep for myself because I had given my mom a 30 mg melatonin tablet with a cup of nighty night tea. I also shut off the light next to her bed and put a low light at the opposite end of the room so that she could see if she needed to get to the bathroom at night.

I was able to convince her that shutting the light out was causing her the trouble. I told her that it was like a torture treatment, where you are never allowed to sleep... no wonder she was seeing things and going crazy.

My mom has worried about "the crazy gene" as long as I can remember. Her biggest fear was passing this on to her kids. I never forgot it because she always worried about it and told me that she didn't want us to be crazy and that she was sorry she passed it on to us.

Anyway, her crazy gene is dementia. Yay!

Now, I love my sisters, brother and my nephews but if I can avoid being their nurse then amen to that. The whole purpose of this blog is to write notes so that later down the road I can write a manual for everyone who has my genes. It may save them a lot of agravation because I can tell you right now, once Gram and Rachel move on to the other side (Uncle Al too) I'm pretty much going to be on the Golf Course as the Golf Swami!

I digress...

Today, Josie woke up feeling great. Her readings were all awesome. Wooo Hooo!

Unfortunately, I notice termites coming out of a wall near the outside door that is next to her room. I set up the vaccuum and gave her the task of sucking the bugs up before they got into the room.

Thank God we took care of the hallucinations with Melatonin, that's all we need to hear Knock, Knock, Knock... "Susie. The bugs in the room, they're.... "

I believe my mom was sleep deprived. She was hallucinating because she didn't have enough sleep. Her internal clock was screwed up. Man, isn't that a torture tactic?

The pineal gland is pretty darn amazing. I need to do more research and thinking about this interesting gland... I've got so much more to say about it.

Yay for Melatonin!