What motviates you to get outta bed?

[angieskidney]

Discussion: What motviates you to get outta bed?

I know for me with how I feel (no energy) and with dialysis drying me out, sometimes I just don't feel like biking all the way to work. Especially in this weather.

What motivates you guys?

[Sluff]

I wonder that myself sometimes. I guess it is to keep proving to my 16 year old that no matter what your lifestyle is or how late you stay up or wether or not you get much sleep that you have to remain responsible and get up every morning and do your routine day after day.

My wife already thinks I'm lazy so I have to prove her wrong also.

[KICKSTART]

My four dogs
The fact that i live on my own
A nice cup of tea !

[goofynina]

How do i say this, ummm, oh, ok,  MY BOWELS    never fails, first thing in the morning, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, yep, that will get anyone motivated to get out of the bed don'tcha think? 

[angieskidney]

How do i say this, ummm, oh, ok,  MY BOWELS    never fails, first thing in the morning, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, yep, that will get anyone motivated to get out of the bed don'tcha think? 

Seems that was what my problem was when I was on PD myself! lol

[jbeany]

Hunger usually works for me.  My cat, who thinks she needs to be cuddled the minute I start to wake up, is usually good for a day or two a week.

Honestly, today was a struggle.  I knew I had to get up in the bitter cold and drive on icy roads to go to dialysis.  I knew I'd had too much fluid yesterday. (A sore throat and hacking cough kept me constantly dry, so I over did the ice cubes.)  So I knew that even if I didn't crash, I was going to get either a lecture or some annoying comment from whoever hooked me up.  I was not in the mood to be treated like a recalcitrant child today.

So why did I get up?  Because today is the only day that I can get to the local branch of the library and exchange books.  I was out of fresh reading material.

Bah, take whatever reason I can get, ya know?

[angieskidney]

So I knew that even if I didn't crash, I was going to get either a lecture or some annoying comment from whoever hooked me up.  I was not in the mood to be treated like a recalcitrant child today.

I know exactly what you mean and I find that I worry about that too! I mean, shouldn't it be more that we worry about our health more than them repremanding us? But yet I still worry about what they will think or say ...

[kitkatz]

My motivation: Going to earn those "Big Bucks" teaching.

[tubes]

my alarm....i have to get outa bed to reach it.  sometimes i go straight back to bed afterwards.  "sigh"
other then that, i dont know what my motivation is.....

[kitkatz]

Look at it this way:
You only have to get through today.
You made in through yesterday okay,
Tomorrow is not here yet, so not worries there.
Just today, this second..there see you made it...another second...
Just this second, another minute, that half hour,that hour, this half day, there today!

[tubes]

sorry.  been feeling really bad today.  didnt mean to be such a downer.

[Deanne]

A cat named Clyde and a dog named Tigger. Clyde is like a snooze alarm. Every day at about 5am, she strolls into the bedroom meowing, walks up the ramp onto the bed. I can hear every claw digging into the carpet on the ramp. She circles around me, meowing the entire time, almost steps on my under-the-cover dachshund (Bella), who sqiurms over to avoid her. Bella HATES being stepped on.

Clyde jumps down, walks out of the bedroom and a few minutes later strolls in to repeat the process. After a time or two of this, she wakes up Tigger (yorkie mix) who sleeps on my left side. Once Tigger is awake I have to get up. I don't think he'd wait for me to go potty, so as soon as he moves, I LEAP from bed with a groan. On weekends, after I feed everyone (cats and dogs), feed myself, I'll crash on the couch and go back to sleep for another hour or two.

Deanne

[Sluff]

Nice picture Deanne.   

[Deanne]

Thanks! I'm hoping it'll motivate me to do it again!

Deanne

[paris]

What motivates me?  I want one more day, so after today, I still want one more day and then another.  When I would rather curl up in a ball, I push to do one thing to make this day important.  Working with my students drains me dry, but I know they also keep me going forward. Very few parents are aware of the kidney thing; so I am treated "normal" and that feels good.  My grandbabies don't know "Nana" is sick because I don't want that to be the focus.  We love doing crafts together and when we are tired, we pile on Nana's bed and take a good nap  (more for me than them!)  I think I will always want to make each day a gift.     Besides, if I didn't get out of bed, I couldn't read any posts on IHD --that is a good reason to get up in the morning!

[Sluff]

   Besides, if I didn't get out of bed, I couldn't read any posts on IHD --that is a good reason to get up in the morning!

And the WINNER is..

[SierraJim]

When I first awaken in the morning and glance next to me, I am startled to see that I'm sleeping next to an angel!  Oh my Gawd I think! What did I do to deserve this good fortune?  Then I ask her if she would like a cup of coffee and/or a croissant and she rewards me with a positive answer.  So, I've got a reason to live that day.  I've got to get my wife a cup of coffee and a croissant!  Maybe that day is one that I can't take pain medication (if I take them too many days in a row they just quit working).  But even in severe pain, I can get it up to bring my wife a cup of coffee (Peets).  If I have dialysis that day, (which I usually do), I call the center to see if they have any early openings.  I'd rather go early and get it over with as soon as possible.  They assure me that eventually I'll be able to come at 6:00 am, but for now I go at various times.  I get motivated during the day by getting on the computer and doing something positive.  Maybe writing a letter to congress and/or the President about whatever political issue I'm concerned with (invariably the environment), now I check daily with IHD, and I'm beginning to really care for the people there, and I feel that I have become one with them.  I'm motivated to play with my cats.  I got one cat (Bucky) who acts like a human.  He follows me around during the day, wanting to be with me no matter what I'm doing.  He even goes on walks with me!  This is some kind of crazy cat and I love him.  Of course I love his sister too, but she is the aloof kind of cat.  Hard to get close too.

I like listening to my local public radio station KQED.  I like Michael Krasny, the public relations host.  His shows are eye-opening. 

Then after the day is nearly over my wife comes home from work, she runs a medical laboratory in a large urban hospital, so she's exhausted.  I try to make sure some kind of dinner is prepared for her, and do my best to give her as much support, love, and care as I possibly can.  This motivates me.  This keeps me going to Dialysis and enduring whatever I have to in order to live.  What it boils down to is this:  my motivation to live is based largely upon my motivation to be of some kind of service to others, especially my darling wife.

Best regards and wishes to all.

SierraJim





EDITED: Merged Topics - Sluff, Moderator

[Sluff]

Nice post SierraJim   

[Ohio Buckeye]

That is nice, SierraJim!  Sounds like you and your wife are blessed to have each other.
And you are a blessing to others as well.
I also have 2 cats like that, a brother and sister.  he loves people and she is shy
and very skittish.  Most people have never seen her.

[Ohio Buckeye]

I have to work at getting motivated to get outta bed better because
in this cold winter it is so warm under the covers I can hardly drag
myself out.  It's been a struggle lately.  I feel like a bear in hibernation.

[brenda]

My need to go to work. My need to be out and around people and being busy to forget about the pain. If I just Lay in bed it's that much  harder to get out.

[Rerun]

My two Min-Pins get me up every morning at 5:30 for breakfast (not mine).  It starts with a nose in my ear........it ends with barking and dancing (not me) all the way to the kitchen! 

I worry that if I have a paralyzing stroke they will EAT me alive!

[Panda_9]

Once Ive dragged myself out it wakes me up a bit if I get dressed straightaway and not stay in my nightie like I usually do. However some days nothing works.

[nextnoel]

What motivates me to get out of bed in the morning Mon.-Fri. is knowing that if I don't, I won't be able to pay my apartment rent and will have no place to live!  Sat.-Sun., I have no motivation to get up except to feed my sweet cats, Cameron and Rosie), so I sleep very late, and nap on the couch a lot.  Very inspiring, eh? 

[paris]

SierraJim - I think all the women just fell in love with you! I know your wife considers herself lucky!