{"id":573883550,"date":"2012-07-14T22:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T03:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883550"},"modified":"2012-07-29T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T21:43:45","slug":"sleep-at-last-sleep-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/sleep-at-last-sleep-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep at last, sleep at last"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I hurt myself Monday I’ve struggled to be comfortable in any one position. This means poor-quality sleep: both sides of the bed, a pillow under my arm, no pillows, my recliner. Nothing has worked. <\/p>\n

Last night I gave up and retreated to my arm chair, the only place I’ve been able to get comfortable, provided a certain formula of cushions and pillows is employed. <\/p>\n

So I plumbed the seat cushion, the back cushion. I found a comforter. The Yankee dug my airplane pillow out of some closet. I wedged in a corner of the seat, put a throw pillow in place to support my arm, the airplane pillow around my neck and the comforter around everything else. <\/p>\n

And I slept. I woke up at 8 a.m., after almost seven blissful hours uninterrupted without consciousness or pain. Of course I woke up feeling as if Jack Bauer was torturing my shoulder.<\/p>\n

But I also woke up to this:<\/p>\n

\"DrAllie\"<\/center><\/p>\n

As far as I know she’d sleep on the arm of the chair most of the night, doing her part to nurse me back to health. She’s a good cat for the most part — despite biting my foot for no reason tonight. The arm I hurt is the the side she normally favors, but she’s stayed away from it all on her own.<\/p>\n

Today I’ve resolved to sit perfectly still and do absolutely nothing. For the most part I’ve been successful. And my shoulder and collar bone have been grateful.<\/p>\n

Then I compiled two pages of questions for my doctor. He might not like me as a patient when this is over. <\/p>\n

So I’ve watched TV and read. I’ve nodded off. I’ve tried to stay awake. It isn’t most riveting Saturday, and unfortunately I don’t have a lot to share here. Let’s just try again tomorrow, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I hurt myself Monday I’ve struggled to be comfortable in any one position. This means poor-quality sleep: both sides of the bed, a pillow under my arm, no pillows, my recliner. Nothing has worked. Last night I gave up and retreated to my arm chair, the only place I’ve been able to get comfortable, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collarbone","category-iphone","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883633,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883550\/revisions\/573883633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}