Sleep . . . .

Well, for about 3 or 4 months now Kimmie has taken another spell of not sleeping through the night. She has slept through maybe twice in all that time.

We get up, find Brown Bear, rearrange her blankets, and anything else we can think of, but as soon as we go back to bed she is screaming again. If we don't get back in there fast enough, then she throws everything on the floor--blankets, pillows and Brown Bear.

It doesn't seem to be a scared scream, more like a mad scream.

It amazes me that she slept for three and a half years with the back brace on. She slept amazingly well in that awful brace and all night nearly every night. Oh, occasionally her blankets would get caught by the brace and we'd have to go in and free them. She'd go right back to sleep, and we'd go back to bed. But most of the time she slept through the night.

Now, no back brace, big queen size bed for her to roll around in, and she's up every night.

After her surgeries it took her quite a while to get to where she would sleep through the night, but she had been sleeping through for about 7 or 8 months when this last sleepless spell began.

I guess we'll never really figure this girl out. She's our puzzle.

Right now, the easiest thing to do is lay down with her, but that's become a problem in itself since she's getting too used to having someone sleeping with her.

--Mom