Yesterday on the news they said a new study had been conducted, calling for adults to get at least 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night. Anything less and it is considered sleep depravation. The long term impact can affect your health and your ability to function.

Those of us who have medically fragile children, or just kids who won't sleep know this state well. It is terminal with little escape, Audra's entire 12 years were a study in sleep deprivation.

A good night with Audra was being up with her 3 times, a bad night were what I referred to as "all nighters" with little sleep at all. Most nights it tended to be somewhere between 3 to 6 times a night.

After Audra passed away I had to re-train myself to sleep. I was so use to the abnormal sleep pattern she had shared with me that it was quite difficult to change it.

I remember a few months after Audra had passed. My husband came in to wake me up, "Are you going to sleep all day?" he said. "Go Away, I exclaimed through closed eyelids, Audra gave me this!

Sleep, some people might think it is over-rated, but those of us who are sleep walking through life know better!