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Tips to Achieve a Good Night’s Rest Mar 19, 2018 | By Wendy Hanson (@wendyhanson)Comment receiving replies
For some of us colorectal cancer survivors sleeping thru the night is made all the more difficult from shortened bowels...w/or w/out colostomy. My body empties 20>30 times per 24 hour period. I cannot eat when heading out...not going to spend my time in the rest room while meetings go on! Sleeping thru the night is more pleasant when we can c=actually sleep thru it! Tea an hour before bed is a great soother for me...as is reading a chapter or two in my current book (I'm a ret reading specialist!) Also petting the cat &/or dog helps sleep all night as it does for them 😉 I am a widow so no hub to wake in the night for conversation!!!
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My animals just like being with me 24/7 if they could. Sometimes the Bulldog goes in to work with me..she's a real greeter! Paw up and her best look! The cat is nearly 18. Fast though when he makes his rounds of the house 😉
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Hi Jo-Ellen, welcome back to Connect, and thanks for the sleeping tips. I would like to invite you to follow the Colorectal Cancer group (https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/colorectal-cancer/) You tips on living with an ostomy would be particularly helpful in this discussion:
- Ostomy: Adapting to life after colostomy, ileostomy or urostomy https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ostomy-adapting-to-life-after-colostomy-ileostomy-or-urostomy/
I know for some people, animals can interrupt sleep especially when they want to be fed early in the morning 😉 Seems like your pets are therapeutic for you and help promote sleep. Do you have both a cat and dog?