When a healthy person wakes up from a good night’s sleep, they feel refreshed and ready to take on the world. When I wake up from eight hours of mostly interrupted sleep, my bladder’s burning, my abdomen hurts, my joints are achy…my whole body could use another eight hours of sleep, maybe even a whole week, maybe even a lifetime if it were up to me. I don’t get up from bed, I crawl out; at least that’s how it feels—arduous, strenuous.
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