I’m a light sleeper. As a working mom with two kids, I spend most of my day on my feet. From preparing the kids for school, bath them, feed them and do the drop-off before I then head to work and face my day squarely. At work, every day is such a busy day. As a hospital administrator, I attend to every patient coming for one treatment or the other and on some days, it is always chaotic. My only consolation is the closing hour which is what I always look forward to. But then, when I close from work, I still have to pick the kids from school before we head home.
On getting home, I will have to clean up the kids, assist them with their homework and proceed to the kitchen to make dinner and by the time I’m done feeding the kids and preparing them for bed, I’m already beyond exhausted. On some days, I sleep in my work clothes but only for me to be jolted out of my peaceful sleep from the loud noise of my husband snore. How can you be making a loud noise like that of a mower is mowing the grass, that was what I thought was happening not until I looked outside and It’s the middle of the night. I looked beside me and my husband is the mowing machine and the only thing he is mowing was my sleep.
The seconds his head hits the pillow, he’s practically in a coma, with his eyes close, and he’s out like a light. It’s not his fault, I know, but I can’t help feeling a little bit resentful. He works hard, and I don’t begrudge him a peaceful slumber. It’s the fact that he can go immediately to sleep that makes me want to blow him every time we hit the sheets. It’s the fact that he snores loudly and relentlessly every single night. And he has a different sound for every night, I always start out by attempting to ignore it. After all, it’s not like he purposely sets out to annoy me.
I start out politely poking him with an extended index finger and a soft apologetic whisper of “You’re snoring.” Sometimes, when I get really lucky, he’s sleeping lightly enough for it to work, and he turns over on his side. But that’s, like, 1 out of every 12 times. The other times, the poke is useless. The thing about snorers is that they’re usually heavy sleepers, so a poke can be ineffective most time. When I can’t take it anymore and I tell him grudgingly “You’re snoring!” At that point, my husband can’t help but wake up. He would apologize and ask if he was that loud. The moment he sleeps on his size, I would think peace has finally descended but before I know it, the snoring becomes louder like a reinforcement.
Urgh! Can I live?
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