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[cosmic_celery]

The past month or so, my mom has been on a new sleeping pill that she's supposed to take an hour before bed. I don't know what it is, but it makes her crazy. In the best of scenarios is hard to get her to do what she should be doing, but when she's groggy and half-drugged it's a lot worse. Recently she went to a doctor that told her that she should be getting to sleep by nine every night, and mom asked me to help her enforce it. As it is, I can usually successfully get her to bed an hour later, at 10. It's really difficult because I'm trying to act with authority when I don't have any authority, and she's drugged and illogical.

A couple nights ago, she went sleep-walking. Before I came downstairs to see what she was doing, she cleaned the kitchen counter, did the couple dishes that were in the sink, combined all of the dry snacks (dried fruit, pretzels, etc.)into a mix that probably needs to be thrown away now, and bagged up some empty jam jars with aluminum cans and set them by the door. The jars are broken now.

One of her only friends is moving to Missouri this month, and she's agreed to take some of her furniture (that we don't really have room for.) Last night after she took her pill, she was trying to drag a bed-side table up the stairs and I had to stop her and convince her that she'd probably hurt herself dragging around heavy furniture.

Not surprisingly, I'm losing sleep over this.