A new lifestyle

I have always been the child that on my days off from high school, would find my self staying up until maybe 2 am and then sleeping past 10 am.  This was the norm.  It concerned me a little bit.  The school days always prooved a tough start at 6 am and I would regularly continue to hit snooze for about 20 minutes after the alarm went off.    College did not prove so difficult to awake, but still the weekends were times to stay up late.  There were a few all nighters in college studying for exams which prooved to break my mental health a little bit as those days progressed.  In Medical School, I found that I did not even sleep at all some of the nights before a few of my exams at the end of the semester.  Of course by the time my 3rd year hit, I was taking call for my medical or surgical or OB service and sometimes up until 3-4-5 am doing duties in the hospital and being called upon to work up new admissions or attend to the medical student duties associated with acute illness and ongoing medical care.  It was a less than difficult adaptation due to the previous hard nights of study that changed my mind I do believe to one that is capable of extended hours of attention, work and study.  Since 2000, I have found myself living in an unscheduled daily routine.  My hours have changed and I find that I am awake at various hours and asleep at others.   Its nice to get a full rest now.  However, due to the schedule I now keep, I will explain to you that this is now what is called a True Sleep Disorder.  It has been diagnosed by a sleep specialist with a diagnosis I had inquired about... namely Circaidian Rhythm Disorder- Free Running Type.  This means I dont sleep the routine 1030 pm to 7 am  by which most people feel accustomed.  I have taken a few medications over the years to try to modify this routine.   I once took Ambien for over a year and I found myself to sleep around Midnight routinely.  Not bad, however, I decided that I was concerned about the addictive and possibly mind altering effect of the Ambien.  I stopped it abruptly and for a week, my sleep varied.  I clearly went through withdrawl as I found myself in the afternoon laying down and shivering/shuddering and feeling a trembling of my abdominal musculature.  It was very unnerving.  After a week of this,  no more Ambien.  I do have a prescription for Lunesta now that I might take one every 3-4 months to try to force sleep earlier. It worked once or twice (though not that often).  If I have commitments at an early hour in the day, I might find myself staying up all night and then attending these.   My sleep has not changed much at all these years now.  This past 24 hour period, I found myself finding sleep around 6 am and sleeping through the day until maybe 4:30-5 pm.  This is the way I live today. I do not wish to force medications to change sleep.  I do now routinely take the melatonin derivitave, Rozerem which has been new these past few years.  Does it do anything for me?  I dont konw.  It does not get me to sleep at all and the duration of my sleeping intervals is usually anywhere from 5-10 hours varying daily.  I do believe that a melatonin supplement is not adverse in any way and consider that perhaps it might be a beneficial hormone that might even have positive effects on my mind development.  So I'll stick with it.

Lets discuss what we have to be thankful for this year

I must say that this is always one of my favorite times of the year!  I only had one thanksgiving where I did NOT eat Turkey. I was living in Miami and did not have family that year. I went to a sports bar and I guess I had chicken legs.  Pretty sad actually.   I wish I could go back and have turkey, then my record would have been perfect.   I am thankful this year that I am alive and well and so are my brother, sister, father, mother and many other relatives.   It is glorious to live in a nation that values freedom and religion. 

Cut to the chase

Explanation why I have 4 main active blogs and 2 others that to date I am yet to blog upon: 
I realize that many might view my conscription of 4 major blogs as peculiar and in fact, perhaps unwise.  I decided that at the beginning of my blogging experience, I would not be served well by posting all of my content in one single blog.   I have a medical blog (CraigJasonBrennerMD.blogspot.com) that I may in fact use to some capacity for medical endeavors.   I regard the Sir Henry's blog as my side door... the Sir Walter's Backgammon Table as my back door... The Heresy and Good Fortune blog as my attic and the Tulip Patrol Blog as my front yard.  By visiting each of these, you may glimmer a better look upon the house that I have constructed here in cyberspace.  Thanks for being interested and willing to visit more than one venue of interest.  Of course, you can always find links to the various blogs on the right side of the blog under the "About me" column.   

Making it 100 years after you became Niftar

Dear Mr. Mark Twain/Mr. Sameul Clemens,
It is 2010 and I am pleased to see you have written an autobiography that we now have on our store shelves. 3 volumes in fact and as they say, your pile of manuscripts was celing high. Remarkable. That said, I am not too keen on giving it a read. I did read the summary in the newspaper today and I am impressed with your fortitude. I did find the idea that your secretary or the woman who took your dicatation gave you a sex toy to be amusing in this day and age. Why you took 100 years to break your stories, I have no idea, but rest assured, you are indeed relevant even this year of 2010 or 5771 years since creation. I must say that I did not give any of your books a read. Huck Finn never really interested me. I did have enough funny friends as a kid to need no other stories, but alas, perhaps one day I may indeed pick it up on my kindle for free. I just actually browsed the beginning of one of your stories called a Horses Story (or somthing like that). It seemed humerous, but that is not my genre of reading! I am quite impressed that you were known as a connoisseur of cigars, as this is endearing to me as I am quite a fond man of the habit (until I quit of course which may in fact be a reality someday).
So kudos to you, Mark Twain. You mesmerize us in this new day and age with your escapades and story.