I have ongoing sleep interruption . . . Cookie sleeps in cage because house would be destroyed otherwise, and goes out at around 10 pm then again around 2, then gets up 4:30 . . . I’m the taker-outer and half the getter-upper. I seem to be adjusting to it. My first puppy, who knew how much attention they require . . . cannot imagine what new parents with 24/7 kids do. Initially I was saying 79 year olds should not have a first puppy, but now it’s of course this is right because she gives us so much . . . something happened a month ago, she turned more rewarding, less costly. I read that dogs suffer relocation problems, it takes 3 months for them to readjust.
The neurotransitter adenosine is the by-product of cellular metabolism, builds up in the spaces between nerve cells as they use energy and the more it accumulates the sleepier you feel. It drains as you sleep, and if you don’t get enough sleep, it doesn’t drain completely, so you never quite can catch up on lost sleep. The circadian clock has more trouble getting you going in the morning when you still have adenosine built up.Seems to me the human body is too interwoven and complex to be designed, created, or evolved . . . so do we actually exist at all?
