The Nocturnal Side of Me!

So I am laying in bed and it is 5:33 AM. I went to bed at 12am. I could have came to bed a lot earlier than that but really there is no point when I have to get up twice before then anyways and as a basically single mother 22 days of the month my work is never ending. These are the nights that I wish that I was still 17 and living with my parents and my only worry was making it too school for my 11am class. Those days are long gone and maybe some day will return. I am going to post this later today when I am more awake and less likely to make mistakes. LOL my spelling sucks anyways. Anyways. I would even give anything to go back a year ago. Sure I had a 6 month old but she only got up once for a bottle and then fell asleep right away and my 2 boys had been sleeping through the night since before Kait was born. I usually had to pee by then anyways when she got up so it was all good. I STOPPED sleeping through 98% of the night last July. Carver got toncilitis. Thats when it all started. He started getting up anywheres from 2 to 6 times a night. Going to bed at 8pm he would be up a number of times before he was up for the day at 8am. My hubby was working for his brother at the time and we took turns during the night or every other night we would switch, we delt. Some nights he would just scream and scream. We would get him calmed down and back to sleep and then it would start all over again anywhere for an hour later to six hours later. We would fight because we were frustrated and would soon settle for a dose of tylonal just so he would sleep. I hate giving my kids meds at all let alone when they are not needed and hated to resort to that but at 5am when you have to be up in less than 2 hrs and have been awakened up to 6 times since you went to bed at 12am you sometimes need to take a drastic measure. When we gave him the tylonal he would settle and sleep a bit better but soon that wasnt an option anymore as it didnt work. When my hubby was offered a job working away from home making a significant amount of money we could pass up the opprutunity. Soon though I was second guessing the decision to become a 90% single mom when it was me alone getting up the steadily increasing times a night. My hubbys third shift in he was offered to do a double shift. Thats when I almost lost it and finally took Carver to the dr. This was NOT normal and I knew it. Getting up now 8 to 12 times a night (almost every hour)The dr did the once over and took all the info I had to offer and looked at me and with a straight non concerned face told me that this was "Normal" for any child under the age of 6 to experience. And then asked me if I needed sleeping pills to get through the night. I laughed and walked out of his office. I went home and cried. Nat was gone, my car was just stolen from my back yard, Carver was NOT sleeping and the dr had thought it was ME that needed sleeping pills. That night I started the sleep journal. I docoumented everytime Carver got up and what he did each time. After Christmas and having family see what was going on I was convinced to take him back in to the dr. I was leary about going back to the same dr but I needed HIM to see what was actually going on. Not just asume I was complaing just so he would give ME sleeping pills. After reading the journal and looking at Carver again he gave me some theroys. 1) sleep apnia 2) enlarged toncils and adnoids 3) behaviorment issues.
I sighed in relief. We were getting somewhere. That was December. Its now May and we are JUST getting the oxygen tests done. I feel like its going to take forever and hopefully we will get somewhere. Mean while we have beenbgetting through nigh to night. Carver is on Melitonin which has cut the number iof time he gets up almost in half. But its still 3 to 6 times Im up with him a night. I will write more about this but for now I am getting up for the day!