#Dont sleep you gotta stay up plus#

I put together a discounted bundle of the tools that you will need for the journey, the End of Life Family Support Bundle. If you or someone you know is diagnosed with a life limiting illness, I have resources that can guide and support you. Something More.about Sleep Is a Sign of the Dying Process It is letting go if its hold on this planet, of its need for the energy that sleep provides. However, there will come a time in the dying process when the body is simply letting go of the need for being awake. A nap before and after a planned activity may give a bit more energy to enjoy that activity. It doesn’t fix the problem, but for a while it can allow the body to be a little more active. Our body is like a battery that is losing its charge. We have to change our thinking, new rules apply. This is not true for someone who has entered the dying process. Our belief, which is true in most of life, is if we don’t use our body, don’t exercise and stay active, we will become weaker and less able to function. The body is wearing out and is slowly ceasing to function.Īs family and caregivers we tend to push our loved one to be active, to get out of bed, to stay awake. Remember dying can be from just being old. In a person who is just old with no disease process, the sleep patterns are the same only instead of occurring over a period of months it slowly happens over a period of years.

Before you know it the person is in bed all day, just doesn’t get out of bed, is asleep more than they are awake.

#Dont sleep you gotta stay up plus#

Then to both naps plus sleeping in front of the TV in the evening. This progresses to both morning and afternoon naps. Starting two to four months before death from disease occurs, a person begins taking an afternoon nap. P art of the natural dying process from disease is a person begins sleeping more. Assess those three areas and you can track the dying process. No patterns or rules played.ĭying patterns are centered around food, sleep, and socialization. Lordikim 1 viewer 1 Contributor Stay Up (Don’t Sleep) Lyrics We be rollin n ridin Hustlin n strivin Strugglin survivin Just tryin to stay up Don't sleep, gotta stay up Can't. Fast death is just that: fast, unplanned, no warning, no pattern. Disease can occur anywhere along the life road also. However, not everyone “plays by the rules” so death can occur anywhere along the life road. The road from birth to death passes through infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, old age, and ends at death. Like living, it has stages - a road to travel. We are born, we experience, and then we die. We tend to forget that life is a terminal illness.