This was an important week for me. On Monday I received a phone call that would change the course of my entire week. I was assigned a huge project – so huge that the results of it could literally change my life. Because of the impact I knew this could have, I dropped everything that I had to do that week to focus on that. That, of course, included exercise. As soon as I got off of the phone on Monday, I went to work. And I researched, studied, and put together my project because I had only one week to get it done. This type of project could easily take at least one month, but I had to do it in seven days.
One of the most immediate and lasting side effects of working on this project was that I hardly slept. I did not have time to sleep! This needed to get done, so the majority of nights I got less than four hours of sleep. There were a couple of nights where I only slept two hours. If this had happened as a result of any other circumstances, I could have easily had a nervous breakdown. But the fact that something really good could come out of this was the driving force behind the determination I had to get this done.
Now that I am finished, I have to endure the agony of waiting to hear back from the team I had to turn my project into. If things go in my favor, it will be a huge blessing. If they don’t, it will certainly sting. As for going a whole week with hardly any sleep, you can bet that that affected my ability to take care of myself. I was sometimes so busy that I did not eat like I should have, and the lack of sleep made having to tend to my responsibilities unbearable at times. By Sunday night, I was starting to experience mild hallucinations. On two separate occasions, I saw a rat scurrying along the floor and about had a heart attack. Only there was no rat. I knew then that my sleep deprivation was finally starting to catch up with me, but I was going to use whatever time I had left to work on my project, so I kept at it until 4:30am this morning and had to be up by 6:30am!
Needless to say, I am walking around like a zombie right now. But with a house full of kids and chores awaiting me, I cannot just sink my head into a blissful pillow and let my blankets cover me with their soothing warmth. No, I must get through my day and count down the hours when I will get to sleep again.
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