Spend less time on this website and help with the housework...obviously you have not thought of this...and I, will be blamed,or ridiculed by your swerving arguments, as you usually do to people who dare to give you a 'rough time' in argumentative, logical posts.

morddwyd...."around 7 in the morning, before getting up, and 7 in the evening just before I retire for the night." Are you in bed for 12 hours? I am lucky to get to bed by 11 or 12 and am also up by 7. Mind you with your work schedule I can see why you are tired!! My wife also disabled but is able to do more in the house.

I was always under the impression that older people need less sleep. But now that I am in my eighties,I find that with my back pain, I am completely exhausted by eight in the evening. Of course I sometimes think the medication for the pain may be a contributing factor. But I am just so done in by eight in the evening that I am glad to get into a horizontal position. I sleep right through and when I awake about 07.00 hrs it takes me a lot of time to pluck up the courage to put my feet on the floor and force myself to get up. Because to be quite honest it hurts a lot. However the need to go to the toilet gets me out and once I have walked the first ten steps or so I can then carry on. I need numerous rests during the day and that is when I visit my computer. I force myself to walk about a mile every day but when I get back from that I need a long sit down. Like morddwyd I do most of my own housework until my sister-in-law comes over for the weekend. But lots of sleep seems to be the order of the day, especially if you are suffering from pain.