Sleep? How do you manage it?

[bugwitch 37]

So, I was laying in bed the other night trying to drift off to sleep when my formerly obese cat JD jumped up on the bed and then slowly walked up my leg, onto my belly and then stood on my chest, purring like mad while staring at me and purring some more. It was then that I thought two things...1...I was quite thankful that he had lost so much weight, though still a bit jealous (why can't I have hyperthyroidism instead of hypo-?) and 2...wow...this is gonna suck after I have surgery. How on earth am I gonna sleep at night?

So, how do you sleep at night? My eventual sleeping position is my stomach. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that laying on your stomach right after surgery is probably not the best idea...just a hunch. But what about on your side? My cats still crawl on me when I'm on my side, but the belly is a bit more protected. If I lay on my back, the belly is less protected. There are no doors or spare rooms to lock my cats away into (or me into) so that's out.

What have you done, my fellow cat people?

[Rootman 1,101]

Not a cat person, I've got a small doggy that liked to climb up and peer into my face so it's pretty much the same thing. Since I have a CPAP machine and wear an air mask I can't sleep on my tummy. I held a pillow to my stomach for like the first 2 weeks, one of those dense memory foam pillows with the concave sides, fits like a charm and feels so good.