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over the past year or so, i’ve been starting to sleep through my alarm clocks. I get enough sleep, but after a couple of months my body just kinda gets immune to the sound of the alarm. This is my third (and loudest) alarm clock i’ve had this year and i’m starting to sleep right through it? any suggestions?
One of the smoke alarms in my house has been doing its "quick chirp" thing lately, seemingly to tell me that it needs a new 9 volt battery. I have played round-robin with batteries but at best they’ll last a couple (possibly a few) days and then the chirps come back again, usually at night, which is not good for the sleep thing. Anyway, I decided that I needed to do a little more investigative work rather than just keep replacing the battery. I noticed that the battery itself was noticeably warm, whereas the batteries in my other alarm units were not. I disconnected the unit from its connector such that it is not a part of the overall system whatsoever. And I am suspecting that it is this particular unit itself that is bad, and that I simply need to go to Home Depot (or wherever) and get a replacement.
Somehow that just seems too simple. I noticed that the chirps continued even after I had disconnected the unit. They continued until I had removed the unit from the bedroom it was in, then those chirps ceased. While they mysteriously continued I listened, and it appeared that this defective unit was still the culprit, though the chirps only lasted a couple of times and I don’t hear anything now.
So the questions are:
1) Is it really this simple and I just need to buy a new unit
2) Is it possible that the defective unit continued to make chirps (only a couple) for a short time after I had disconnected it?
Thanks!
It is 4;30 a.m. Just ten minutes ago I was asleep until this continous beeping I don’t mean ‘beep’ no I meen ‘beepbeepbeep’with no breaks or delays. I have not used it in a while I guess over a year. Does anyone have any Infomation on this matter it may help get me to sleep much more quickly
I am one of those people who can sleep until 12 or 1 in the afternoon…i know not so good. But when i try to get up earlier my body wont let me. So i was wondering if anyone knows a way for me to wake up earlier at lets say 9. i know that i could just set an alarm but was wondering if there was a way to do this without an alarm…to adjust my body.
The Angel Care monitor is the one with the sensor pad that goes under the crib mattress and detects the baby’s breathing. If it doesn’t detect breathing for 15 seconds an alarm sounds to alert the parents.
I have a love-hate for this thing cause when my baby was first born, it was the only way I can get any peaceful sleep, without constantly worrying if my baby was still breathing (moms, you know how it is!!).
Now that she’s almost 6 months and moves around so much at night, I obviously can’t keep the monitor on cause the alarm constantly goes off.
But now I’m finding that I’m having trouble sleeping without it on and the worry about SIDS is creeping back.
Have any of you other parents experienced this and how did you overcome it?
It is 9 AM on the 4th of July, a holiday and I have the day off of work. Really wishing I could sleep in but my car alarm keeps going off every 15 minutes like clockwork since 7:30! My neighbors are probably going to kill me, why is it doing this and how do I get it to stop?
I know that no one will read this because it’ll be long. :\
There’s so many things wrong in my life, and I can’t seem to fix anything.
My parents don’t live together anymore. We recently moved. It’s not like my parents hate each other, but they just don’t get a long very nicely. I live with my mom and grandma, an hour away from my dad. I like it here, but I miss my other house too. I don’t see my dad as often as I’d like, and I feel like he’s just going to drop out of my life like everyone else did.
My brother went to college last summer, and it started out good. He came over every weekend to eat dinnner with us, and he hung out the rest of the day with me. Sometimes during the week he’d stop by to pick me up, to go with him to do errands. I love spending time with him, but we never hang anymore. He doesn’t return calls or texts, he never visits anymore, and it doesn’t seem like he cares. I know he just got a new job, and he is moving soon, but I still wish he would try to make a relationship with me. We were really close before.
I don’t have much family anymore. My mom says she cares about me, and I believe it. But I’ve fcuked up and told her I hated her before because she thinks I’m being a downer. I hate going out anymore, and I don’t leave the house often. When she wants to go places, I ask if I can stay home, and then she yells at me. Recently distant family is trying to get in touch with me again. I have two uncles trying to talk to me, an aunt, and my brother’s girlfriend. It’s overwhelming. I love them, but they could have been in my life all the time, and they’re choosing now to come back? I don’t understand it.
I have anxiety. I can’t go to sleep anymore at night. When I do, I have nightmares. They’re usually the same thing. My family or friends get killed, and I’m frozen. I can’t move or yell. I hate going to sleep anymore. And I always think while I’m sleeping, something is going to happen. The house catching on fire and the alarm not going off, someone breaking in and killing us, and anything like that. I usually stay up until 5 am, because my grandma leaves for work at that time. My mom gets up shortly after that time too. I sleep in until 2 pm to catch up on sleep I missed, and my mom is awake. The sun is also out.
I get sick all the time. I seriously get a cold every week. Just today I went to get an xray because I might have a sinus infection. I’ve missed 53 days of school this year, all because I get sick. I’ve had pneumonia, bronchitis, strep throat, a stomach virus, and a bunch of colds. I missed school because of having colds only because I have asthma, and anytime I get a cold, it triggers my asthma. So I have to do breathing treaments all day, or I get sicker. In november, my teachers actually came to my house to teach me while I was getting over pneumonia. I can’t even tell you how many Xrays/CAT scans/MRIs I’ve had just this year. And I’ve been in an ambulance at least 3 times. The stomach viruses I had landed me in the hospital over night because I kept throwing up and I was dehydrated. These hospital visits aren’t cheap. I hate that my mom has to pay for these things.
My bestfriend doesn’t care anymore. If we’re not talking about the latest Justin Bieber news, or about her crush, she doesn’t make a conversation. If I want to talk about something that interests me, she’s like Ha, ok. Haha yeah. Mhm. It’s annoying. I even told her I had to get an xray, and go to therapy tonight, and she said ew Not hope you feel better, or whats going on? I always do those things to her. When she’s sick, I tell her I hope she gets better soon. Or when she’s talking about Justin Bieber, I’m always trying to talk about it too, because I like him. (shocker!) But if I talk about my favorite artisits, she doesn’t care. If I confront her about it, she gets pissed off and goes on Facebook or myspace, and complains about it there.
I really am unhappy, and life hasn’t gotten better in the past 9 months. Therapy doesn’t help me. I absolutely hate it. But I’m forced to go. My mom found out today all these thinsg she didn’t know about me today at therapy, and she cried for 10 minutes straight. It’s my fault, and I just don’t want to keep causing everyone so much pain everyday. If I’m gone, I won’t be there to tell my mom I hate her when I don’t, or get mad at my bestfriend, or annoy my cousin because I don’t want to hang out with her and her friends.
I know that you’ve all seen this type of question once or twice, and I know that I’ll probably get no answers. But I wanted to just let everything out because I always keep it inside.
Can anyone tell me, is cough can be produced from a puppy with white blood infection? My puppy has been coughing for 2 months. He only coughs when waking up and before he goes to sleep. It is a dry hacking cough. And it is usually 4-6 coughs each time. He had finished 3 courses antibiotics. At this point, he is eating, drinking, playing normally.
I always sleep in to about 9:30 or 10 and I want to start waking up earlier on weekends so it will be easier to get up for school, e.t.c, but without an alarm.
Okay so i’m 16 and it’s like 12 in the morning, i came home earlier and tried to put a new battery in our smoke alarm a friend gave me because we didn’t have any that fit it, so i went to put it in and the fire alarm started beeping. As my dad was asleep i took it out immediately and got into bed (my mum was downstairs, i assumed she’d come up and put the battery in and sort it all out) instead she went straight to bed, and when i asked if she’d put it in she just told me to go to sleep! I’m now so worried as to what to do?! What if the house burns down and it could have all be avoided if the battery was put in?!