I worked most of my nursing career on second shift until I met DH and started to work days. Problem is, my body to this day is still on second shift. I love the evening and get my second wind around 8 pm. I can stay up till one or two, sleep till 9 and even then, I don't get rolling till the evening.
Poor husband just doesn't understand why I still like to set up late althoug I have gotten better. Usually asleep by midnight now.
I grew up with a lark and an owl ... Dad Was the Lark up at five am tinkering and in bed at least by nine. Mom an Owl was the opposite... Up at noon and never going to bed till around 1 or 2 am.
I learned to function in spurts but I am more of an Owl than a Lark. Left alone I am like you....
I was able to hold down a job with hours like my dad.... then stay up till midnight Get about five hours sleep and do it all over again... For about twenty years. Then my son came along.... I learned how to live with little to no sleep at all catching cat naps when ever I could....
Consequentially my biorythm is all F d up.... and again I find myself in another situation where I need to be up at night and up in the morning.....
So I been quiet of late. Grandma had some trouble with her ear which needed a visit to the doc... who missed it and consequentially needed a visit to the ER with a huge blood clot in her ear.... Course of antibiotics required she not have milk or calcium products within an hour or so after taking it.... Diet had to change.... Then a visit after ten days to an ENT specialist.... All the while she couldnt use her hearing aids and she was stone deaf now in her only good ear... So spent the last three weeks with the TV volumn up so loud Dean and I were getting jumpy... intercepting the phone and explaining... stuff like that.
ENT had probably the BEST bedside manner of all the doctors wed ever seen... He dug the clot out then suctioned her ear out.... and suddenly she could HEAR....
Not only hear but hear without her hearing aid... He said her ear drum was fine YAY... and probably what had happened in the course of putting her hearing aids in she had made a sore spot... and with her 100 year old skin it finally burst something.... he also said that as a surgeon he found anyone on Prophylactic Aspirin tended to retain it in their systems as a blood thinner for a very long time. Adding to the issue...
So now shes on a four times per day course of antibiotic ear drops while it heals... I wake up in full anxiety attack mode sometimes... So my sleep is extra messed up. Consequentially once she is finally on the mend I am going to get counseling... Hopefully come up with a way to manage depression and Anxiety and still be an effective helper in the family here.
deb
Jack learned sit in 2 days. Proud mom bragging. 
