That small, tiny little nap in the afternoon.,,

[T-Bone]

Is there any better feeling than drifting off for a 20 minute power nap while football drones on in the background?

Am I getting old?

[Bebop]

Lol. Nothing like the halftime snooze.

[jasonculp]

I have been doing it all afternoon. My football season was over last week. My wife has been watching the Lifetime channel, and Forensic Files to make sure she gets away with my future murder (J/K). I have been drifting in and out of a nap all day!

[Tam]

I have been doing it all afternoon. My football season was over last week. My wife has been watching the Lifetime channel, and Forensic Files to make sure she gets away with my future murder (J/K). I have been drifting in and out of a nap all day!

Are you sure you were just sleepy... or did she spike your drink? Hmmmmm?

[jasonculp]

Are you sure you were just sleepy... or did she spike your drink? Hmmmmm?

Anything is possible!

[Jeffb]

I have been doing it all afternoon. My football season was over last week. My wife has been watching the Lifetime channel, and Forensic Files to make sure she gets away with my future murder (J/K). I have been drifting in and out of a nap all day!

My wife has been binge watching those shows. Im starting to get concerned

[spydre]

I have been doing it all afternoon. My football season was over last week. My wife has been watching the Lifetime channel, and Forensic Files to make sure she gets away with my future murder (J/K). I have been drifting in and out of a nap all day!

Murder porn! If you watch South Park, you'll get the joke. I used to watch that stuff all the time - but the shows on Discover ID go more in depth on the same cases, because they are usually an hour long, but my husband started getting really paranoid that I was planning his murder, lol.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask about naps, though, as I'll just up and fall asleep in the middle of day, dead to the world (except maybe a phone ringing) sitting on the couch, or I'll doze off sitting at my desk. But that's just me, lol. And sir, you didn't grab a power nap during the football game - say what my dad used to say. "I was just resting my eyes."

[jasonculp]

Murder porn! If you watch South Park, you'll get the joke. I used to watch that stuff all the time - but the shows on Discover ID go more in depth on the same cases, because they are usually an hour long, but my husband started getting really paranoid that I was planning his murder, lol.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask about naps, though, as I'll just up and fall asleep in the middle of day, dead to the world (except maybe a phone ringing) sitting on the couch, or I'll doze off sitting at my desk. But that's just me, lol. And sir, you didn't grab a power nap during the football game - say what my dad used to say. "I was just resting my eyes."

That's another channel that she watches. (I watch it with her)

I take naps frequently. I am a salesman, and I may drive 200 miles before 8:00 and 200 more after 5:00. If I start getting tired, I pull off and catch a 15 minute nap. If I am not taking a purchasing agent out to lunch, I've been known to grab a drive through burger and sit in a rest area and grab 45 minutes.

[spydre]

That's another channel that she watches. (I watch it with her)

I take naps frequently. I am a salesman, and I may drive 200 miles before 8:00 and 200 more after 5:00. If I start getting tired, I pull off and catch a 15 minute nap. If I am not taking a purchasing agent out to lunch, I've been known to grab a drive through burger and sit in a rest area and grab 45 minutes.

There was one case that I watched on Forensic Files, and because of the time limitations, there were certain aspects they didn't go into, which were kind of key to the case. You would think that the wife just decided to off her husband. But when I saw the case on an hour long program on ID, it turns out that the wife was addicted to, I believe, Fentanyl (I hope I spelled that right), the very drug she specialized in detecting in blood for the coroner's office. She would steal the samples they had in the office for study - well, that and buying. Her husband was getting suspicious, so she killed him. The detective who interviewed her after the murder immediately tagged her as a junkie.

I have a couple of chronic conditions that lend themselves to, well, lots of fatigue, but it's gotten bad the last bunch of months, and I don't sleep well at night, and get up early during the week to help get things moving in the morning with everyone leaving, not to mention medications that make me tired. Hence, the tendency to sometimes fall asleep at the drop of a hat.

When I was working, before all of this stuff was uncovered, all I know is I was exhausted, I would spend my lunch break in the smoking area taking a nap. Well, okay, by that time, the smoking area had been moved outside, but the tables and chairs were still there, so I'd set the alarm on my phone, lay my head down on my arms, and snooze my break away.

[jasonculp]

I have a couple of chronic conditions that lend themselves to, well, lots of fatigue, but it's gotten bad the last bunch of months, and I don't sleep well at night, and get up early during the week to help get things moving in the morning with everyone leaving, not to mention medications that make me tired. Hence, the tendency to sometimes fall asleep at the drop of a hat.

When I was working, before all of this stuff was uncovered, all I know is I was exhausted, I would spend my lunch break in the smoking area taking a nap. Well, okay, by that time, the smoking area had been moved outside, but the tables and chairs were still there, so I'd set the alarm on my phone, lay my head down on my arms, and snooze my break away.

I feel for you. We are plagued with chronic conditions at our house, though not nearly as bad as others have.

I am relatively healthy. I do have boughts of IBS, and anxiety.

My wife on the other hand has severe RA, with Lupus. She is such a trooper, I don't know how she does it. Her rheumatologist and orthopedic surgeon have both demanded that she quit work and go on disability. We are at a point that we don't know what to do. Her job is the source for her insurance, and my work has such poor insurance adding her is not an option. Her medications, if paid out of pocket would total $60,000/year. That does not include the doctors visits. Her job is labor intensive, but she says she wants to keep working because the activity keeps her from hurting. Corporate policies, poor management, and HR issues have nearly forced her to quit. (Lowes Home Improvement at least at the local level SUCKS!) Her income is not very large, but it sure helps our budget (which is at it's limit). She could qualify for disability, but there is a two year delay before medicare would kick in. I am pretty sure that my income would disqualify us from any for of medicaid. We have let ourselves get far enough in debt that a large portion of my income goes to debt, and we live off of the remainder, and her income. We live comfortably, but, if we cut her income by 40% on disability and loose her prescription coverage, it would be impossible.

All of this being said, our problems are minor compared to others, I don't know how they do it.

Sorry, that went from being a reply, to being a rant...

Edited December 7, 2014 by jasonculp

[spydre]

Actually, once approved for disability, it's only a five month delay before Medicare kicks in. Been through the process myself. Although it could take a while for the disability to actually be APPROVED. It took two years on mine, but I was going because of a multitude of conditions, and at the time, none of them alone were disabling. Well, okay, the chronic back pain was, but that still hadn't been diagnosed as anything other than POSSIBLY from the fibromyalgia. They never like approving on conditions without a diagnosis, even though my doctors clearly said due to a combination of factors this person can't work. But two years was one heck of a back payment.

As for medications, well, I'm making an assumption on the medication for RA, but the cost of biologics sucks, doesn't it? If she's on a biologic, then she should be able to get some sort of assistance from the manufacturer to manage to get the drug, and as far as coverage between when she stops working and Medicare kicks in, there is always going through the affordable care act exchange - which is probably your best bet. If you are in a state that expanded Medicaid, income of 100% - 130% of the poverty level would put her on Medicaid, in ANY state, depending on your income, above 130% for a certain % of the poverty level (I can't remember how much) gets a subsidy to help pay for insurance found through the exchange. Above that, it's the full cost of the insurance found through the exchange, but I don't know how much that runs - my disability is the only household income, so I get both Medicare and Medicaid coverage. But medications for managing a lot of auto-immune disorders is out of line - the medication for my MS is, if I recall, somewhere along the lines of $52,000 per year without insurance.

[jasonculp]

I think the fear is the unknown. I just don't know where to go to get the answers. I live in Texas, and we are not known to have great programs. Everything I can find online you have to apply for to know if you qualify. The problem is if there is anything close to "disabled" that comes through Lowes, she will immediately be terminated, which would cause the insurance to cease...it is a catch 22. I wish she could get another job that would allow her to do less physical work, in a different environment with similar benefits. The three months of being without insurance could be prepared for and she could get away from crappy management. This may be difficult, she is 53 and in the workforce considered "unskilled" and limited due to her physical limitations.

[spydre]

Sent you a PM with some hopefully useful info in it for you. Everything is figured on % of the poverty level, and I sent you that table as well. And tell your wife to keep the Americans with Disabilities Act in mind, and she can get light duty if she needs it from her employer. Tell her I said to keep her chin up.