Medications and laundry

I have 2 things I want to talk about here today. My medications that are kicking my butt and the fact that the laundry facility's here where I live have been broken for the past week and no one is coming to fix them

To start with. My medications. I recently had 2 big med changes. I am now on Lunesta for sleep and Lyrica for my Fibromyalgia. Both of them are heavy duty drugs that grog me out so badly all I want to do is sleep. Well at least during the day I do. When it comes time for bed I can't seem to get tired enough to go in and fall asleep. Even taking the Lunesta. It's supposed to work in an hour and then the effectiveness is gone. Well I'm on the highest dose of it and I take it at 9 pm so I'll be ready to go to bed at 10 pm but it seems that I'm not tired enough to go to sleep till midnight. I tried taking it earlier and just fell asleep sitting up on the couch and when I'd wake up and go to bed I couldn't fall back to sleep. The meds work funny on me. I can take something at 8:30 and fall asleep at nine but if I take it at 9 I don't go to sleep till midnight. Give me a break.

The Lyrica is another story. I'm taking it twice a day now. In the morning and at bed. I get up in the morning dragging butt and it doesn't get any better through out the day. Half the time my eyes feel like they are crossing and I sit here on the couch falling asleep but when I go into the bedroom to sleep I can't. Either because the buzzer rings or the phone rings. There is no way to shut of the buzzer but I can shut off the ringer on the phone. When I do go in to sleep, I lay down and it's like I'm floating above my body. Then I fall into a real deep sleep. Of course I have to set an alarm so I won't sleep all day and into the night. I never go in to sleep after 3:30 pm and I don't drink anything with caffeine after 4 so I'll have a better chance of falling asleep at night. (NOT) I'd be better if I drank a pot of coffee before bed as coffee will make me sleep.

So here I sit this morning half asleep writing this.

OK on to my next rant. The laundry facilities here. We have washer's and dryers in all of the buildings. Well Monday I sent my home health aide to do my laundry as I do every Monday. First I had her go to the other end of my building and she came back and said the machines were unplugged and vandalized. So I called the company who puts the machines in the buildings to report the problem. They said they would get someone over there as quickly as they could. So I figured OK I'll send her over to the building I moved out of as I still have a key to the outside door and laundry room. Well she came back and said the machines over there were the same way as the machines in my building. So I called Mac Gray again to report more machines were vandalized. They were like, We'll get someone there when they get there. I was told someone would come on either Monday or Tuesday but when I checked the machines on Tuesday afternoon the machines hadn't even been touched. I called Mac Gray again to find out if they were coming to fix the machines yesterday and they said they should be fixed by Wednesday evening. I don't believe it at all now. In the past I have lost money in the machines and called to say they didn't work and the same day the machines were fixed and in a week I got my money back on what I spent and lost. Now that I need the machines to get my laundry done I'm not able to do it. I'd send my home health aide to the Laundromat but the closest on is in Webster and she would end up using the whole time she's supposed to be here just doing the laundry as it wouldn't be feasible to go back an forth. It's just that far away. So I'm stuck here with no way to get my laundry done. If the machines are not fixed by Monday though I will send her down to the laundromat as I have a few big things that need to be washed there as well. I was planning on sending her there sometime in September anyway so why not get them done early.

So that ends my 2 rants for the day. Hope they weren't to bad to read.
Have a great hump day and rest of the week.