I’m never quite sure what to do with the one on one off one on shift schedule with night shift hours. If you are able to only rest a short time before your first shift, you can’t exactly stay up all day after you have worked all night and been awake the whole day before, but if you sleep you waste your one day off, and if you don’t sleep you will feel terrible all day. I have never really tried to just stay on my night shift hours on a day I was not working but it seemed like an option worth trying. So I got home from work, stayed up for a few hours had breakfast with the kids and walked the dog. Then I crashed hard, waking up around 3:00pm making it down stairs to join the party about a half hour later. We had planned to carve our pumpkin so we did that after dinner and after the kids went to bed and our blog was typed up and posted I settled down with a book. I had planned to go to bed around 12:00 or 1:00 but was still wide awake at those times, but by 3:00 I thought it best to get some rest. I fell asleep quickly but was awake with back pain by 8:00 am and was wide awake after that. I wanted to feel rested going to work but I couldn’t get back to sleep and didn’t want to have to pull another all nighter on five hours of sleep. I took melatonin. I talked with two recruiters and a friend off and on trying to get things lined up for our next assignment, which didn’t help me fall asleep but was necessary. I did get a little more sleep between1:30 and 3:45. Hopefully that will carry me. Maybe I should have stayed up until 6:00, I don’t know, I hate to miss a whole day with my family when it is a day off. Hmmm, not sure that it helped at all maybe I will stick to sleeping all day getting up for a few hours then sleeping all night, being awake the next 24 hours (all day and all night.) I wish I could figure out a way that worked well.
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