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Dude, just sneak off and just sleep! Can you just find a empty hammock you need to "fix". Lol. I was just telling my DH the other day about how wonderful sleep is. I've been sick off and on for the last 6 months due to school work and daycare germs and just being able to sleep this summer has done wonders for my health! However, the worst sleep deprivation I've had is during LO's newborn stage.

The worst: I remember putting my hand into boiling oil to flip or get something while frying! It somehow just didn't register for me to not do that!

I get super forgetful and irritated!

Migraines. I'm chronically sleep deprived right now (3 year old who won't stay in his room at night and infant who's sick), so I've had some level of headache/migraine every day for the past 3+ weeks. Which is making me more tired, because living in pain is exhausting.

On top of normal crabby-ness, I pretty much cry at the drop of a hat when I'm over tired. After one or two episodes of that, everyone is overtired of me.

Super irritable, cranky, unreasonable!

I get a lot of anxiety and sinus issues.

I remember going to a lecture in college by a renowned sleep researcher about all the things sleep-deprivation does to you biologically - it was pretty horrifying since I wasn't sleeping much at the time One thing that I remember is that most people if they get less than four hours of sleep will go into a pre-diabetic state. Makes sense, as if I'm really sleep-deprived I feel nauseated and don't digest anything well, especially anything sweet. Also, apparently information from the past day won't go into long-term memory, so you'll forget whatever you learned.

When I'm sleep deprived, I also don't think clearly and my train of thought is easily distracted.

@mrbee: I hope your mom gets back so you can get more sleep soon!

@mrbee: For me after about 3 days of serious sleep deprivation my skin hurts like when you're about to get the flu. I think it's technically caused by nerve irritation but that's how I know I MUST GET SOME SLEEP!

I get super grumpy. I also feel really anxious and on edge.