Word: sleepings
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...from the outside. It just didn’t seem fair to Alyssa— “It’s not even something you would think to look for” in a seven-year-old. It was enough, “after I cried myself to sleep several nights in a row,” to convince her that she could not possibly do this as a career. “I guess I’d just never thought of these kids dying before,” she muses...
...mother assumed the role of full-time caretaker. By engrossing herself in his needs, she often neglected those of my three older siblings and I. She made John Vietnamese food while I subsisted on peanut butter and jelly. She gave him baths at night while I put myself to sleep. He monopolized her time, he got all of the attention, he made me think Mama loved him more than she loved...
...hope that she could take care of him forever. After years of lifting, changing, and feeding, John was placed in a nursing home last March. For the first month he tearfully screamed at the nurses, “I want go home.” He could only sleep if my mother was with him. He would point to the telephone and say my name...
...problem for him, he did admit that it could have a negative impact on his grades. “I’ll play until 5:30 or 6 in the morning,” he says. “If it starts to screw up my sleep schedule, it will in turn screw up my work...
...continues. “I played six times a week on average for eight to ten hours a day. That was a normal work week. At least 50 hours. I might play a 40-hour session and then sleep a day and a half. I did what it took to stay up on the game. I couldn’t afford to sleep—that was how I supported myself...