March s MS awareness month and the MS society posted on Facebook The link to an article about sleep problems that go with MS. My own experience is that most of the time I sleep pretty good. Problems show up when I take too long of a nap during the day. On these days and up not being able to sleep and sometimes I am still awake and my wife goes to work. I have about two nights like this a month. It is a very frustrating because I've always had this problem. A used to be I would get up and read in the living room. Now I'm not able to. I can only read for less than an hour on my iPad that I could no longer lift my hand to turn the pages. After that I just lay there until I eventually find sleep. The nights are extremely long and last night was one of these.
I used to have an iPad in the living room and when it was plugged in I could use the Siri function and set an alarm. Then when a one off I only got about a half hour of sleep and could sleep at night. Now I only have my iPhone to use Siri with. It's really stupid because I can set the alarm with Siri but strangely I cannot turn off the alarm with Siri. My hand doesn't work so I'm stuck listening to the alarm. Fortunately it only goes for about 10 minutes and then shuts off. That I can use Siri to turn off the alarm so doesn't go back on. That is a very annoying 10 minutes. So I quit using this function and just hope I wake up in time. Yesterday at didn't work out very well and so I had a very very long night.
I find the Siri function useful but unfortunately so stupid it's hard to believe. I can make a phone call with Siri. But guess what, I cannot answer a phone call with Siri or hang up when I get someone's voicemail. They keep telling me to push numbers to get out of the voicemail but Siri doesn't work for that. How can they make Siri so useful and stupid at the same time?
Oh well I'm just going to have to try to not nap today so I can sleep tonight. I know there people who have it a lot worse so I try not to whine too much.
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