Overview of a recent experience

James Cooper on Penzance promenade on Saturday11th September. He'd not slept for 5 nights and assumed he'd be catching up soon...but it was not to be! 

On Monday 9th September, 2019 I began my day as I usually do, by taking a stroll to my local cafe for coffee and to check my emails etc. After a few sips, I felt nauseous so started to walk home. Before I got back I projectile vomited in a bush. I had a couple of hours sleep before going off for a tennis lesson (which went fine). That afternoon in town, I started vomiting again and this time it marked the beginning of a full 5 days of griping abdominal pain and vomiting. I got no sleep at all during that time. Twice I got taken to A&E, where I received an injection of Buccastan (anti nausea) and had blood tests taken. Nothing showed up.

By the afternoon of Saturday 14th, the symptoms had subsided; I'd eaten a bowl of vegetable soup and sat to watch the sun set by the promenade in Penzance. "I'll certainly sleep well tonight" I thought to myself as I gazed out to sea immersed in a sense of gratitude for the passing of this terrible week. 

This is where things started to get a little strange. By 2am I was still working on my laptop, catching up with work (I'm self employed). Sure, I felt 'tired' but not so much that I wanted to lay down...very strange for someone who'd not slept for the last 5 nights. "Must be some kind of nervous energy residue" I thought to myself as I ran a hot bath. After the bath I felt very relaxed and lay down to sleep, still feeling the gratitude for my own life and comfort. But I couldn't sleep, I could even begin to! There was some kind of energy coming into me, coming through me...through my face and eyes, through my body...and it certainly didn't have any designs on 'shutting down' or 'going to sleep'! So after about 20 minutes of lying there, I got up and started work again, did some yoga, practiced on my tennis training device, packaged up some products...4am, 5am, 6am....still not tired! I would periodically have a shower and go to bed..surely this time I'd drift off!...but no, none of it, not even for a wink! 

This sleeplessness continued until the late afternoon of Friday 20th, 12 days from when the illness/sleeplessness began. It didn't feel like sleep as I know it and it took place after a particularly hot bath, it was like a 'blip' where I was 'out' for perhaps 2-4 hours. I felt very groggy indeed after I'd awoken but that soon cleared after a shower and walk to town. I didn't sleep that night and went off early for a jaunt to St. Ives the next morning. On the bus home I started feeling very sleepy (was by the heater at the back) but it wasn't until 2.30am the next morning that I finally 'fell asleep properly' and I got nearly a full 8 hours.

James at the time this article was written.

As I write this, it is the afternoon of Sunday 22nd September. I feel fine, rested, focused...yet somewhat confused! As I said to my friend earlier today "I didn't sleep for 12 nights, after 5 days of intensely acute gastroenteritis, with no recuperation or sleep...just kinda makes me wonder what I am? It's like a force stronger than nature is at play here" to which he agreed.

James Cooper

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