Sunday, May. 02, 2004 - 2:12 pm
Um... I'm sorry.
This relationship just isn't working for me.
I'm at www.dailypreciousness.org now. So change that bookmark.
Bill was an insomniac all his life. He hadn't really had a full night's sleep since he was a child. He tried to sleep, but the usual strategies failed him. Sheep, white noise, hypnotherapy, guided meditation... nothing did the trick.
Luckily, he never suffered. Sluggishness was never a problem. His body seemed to work fine without sleep. He simply didn't need it.
In fact, Bill's friends used to joke that he was a vampire because he'd stay up to all hours of the night. When he read the tales of the Vampire Lestat, he felt a strange simpatico with the character. So he studied vampires more and more, until he became quite the expert. Eventually, Bill even started a vampire club.
All the vamp pals would gather twice a week for sleepless fun until the dawn. All that changed, however, when his niece needed a kidney.
Bill was a match. He could be a doner for her. There was no doubt in his mind what he had to do. He donated one of his and when he woke up from the operation, the doctor told him he'd been asleep for three days straight.
Impossible, Bill explained. I don't sleep.
But he had.
And from that day on, his body needed a good six or seven hours every night. The operation was a complete success. The niece's kidney problems were solved. Her body accepted the kidney as its own. And Bill never struggled with a sleepless night again.
