I will sleep well tonight!

I ended up staying with my mom overnight in order to give my grandmother a break.  I know that GG is happy to care for her daughter, but I also know that at 85 she is not the solution for the next month (that is my approximate time table for how long this current situation might last).  Staying with Mom is more mentally stressful than physically so, as Mom is currently suffering a great deal and it's just tough to watch.  Mom is currently living in her TV room where she lives in a recliner...due to the severe and thick phlegm she is unable to sleep laying down.  It is necessary to be very near her, so "sleeping" there consists of the upright chair next to her that does recline, but not in any way, shape , or form comfortably.  Mom started dozing around 9 last evening, and I started to fall asleep just after 11.  At 11:16 (dozed for five whole minutes!) Mom had an incident and I was fully awake again.  Mom is in charge of the remote (the TV remains on all night, as do the lights) so I was pretty concerned when she turned over to the Criminal Minds marathon at 11:40...there was no way I was going to be able to sleep to that!  At the same time, I wasn't sure I was going to sleep anyway and I had never seen these episodes so I just went with it.  Fortunately at Midnight she turned over to Golden Girls, and about 1:30 I was able to start drifting in and out of sleep.  At 4AM Mom had another incident, and it was 5 before I went back to sleep, with some optimism that I might be able to get another three hours.  The dog had other ideas at 7 though, and I was up and at 'em at that point.  I was able to get some things done around the house, and then sat with Mom again at 9, and began to drift off again when the phone rang less than five minutes later.  Mom says that GG actually sleeps better than I do because she can tune out the TV and the lights don't bother her...I've always been a very light sleeper.  GG came to relieve me at noon so that I could attend a family graduation party this evening, and now that we are home, I plan to sleep well tonight!  I am very grateful that a friend of Mom's has arrived from Wisconsin and will be staying until Wednesday so we are all "off duty" for a few days!