So sorry that you lost Janice, MamaB. She must have been a delight. I can only imagine the pain you went through.
As for scoffing at this study, I know there is something to it. Disappointment makes me very very tired too…I hope not to the extent that it will become chronic, but I do have those deep dark “what’s the use” days when I can easily sleep 12 hours.
Thanks. She loved God, her family/friends and her country. I am so glad she got to go to Austria and Germany for international high school band competition although she got ill in Austria. A few weeks after her death, I had a dream about her that told me she was ok. I was standing on a bridge overlooking a beautiful meadow. She was there with dozens of children. She had a beautiful smile. Her way of saying, “Hey mom. I am ok. No more pain.”
I do have many days just like that but fortunately the hypersomnia can act as a protective mechanism - it certainly does with me. Don’t mean that I wake up all refreshed and ready to go but at least it is a break from the dreadful rumination that would occur otherwise. On a cheerier note, Merry Christmas!