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melody
10-01-08, 03:17 PM
Sleeping that is. :D

I've just finished a stretch of 6, twelve and a half hour night shifts at work. They have to be, without doubt the worst shifts I've ever worked.

I am exhausted. Physically, mentally and emotionally.

I have two weeks off now, and I just don't see myself getting out of bed for the forseeable future.

What's the longest you've been in bed for?

plowsie
10-01-08, 03:18 PM
Melody you could keep me in bed as long as you like....

I mean err 16 hours when i got back from Mexico :D

the_lone_wolf
10-01-08, 03:20 PM
What's the longest you've been in bed for?
I was in bed by eight, and home by eleven

heh, heh, allllriiight



















Giggedy

Ceri JC
10-01-08, 03:20 PM
About 16 hours for me, after being up for 56 hours.

Alpinestarhero
10-01-08, 03:22 PM
10 hours. Any longer, and i start to get bored of resting.

Matt

Pedro68
10-01-08, 03:29 PM
I presume you're talking about "in bed, asleep"? Not recouperating following major bowel surgery for instance?

Biker Biggles
10-01-08, 03:34 PM
Bit worried about which NHS Trust permits a 75 hour week.
Clearly illegal under WTD.:D

Spiderman
10-01-08, 03:37 PM
nearly a full 48hrs for me.

Came back from a rave at about 9am on a saturday morning, kinda recall my mum comming in and asking if i planned to get up at all (yes this was many years back when i lived at home) and then getting up to be greeted with...
"you must be hungry or thirsty by now" and when enquired why and thought it was only saturday night i was told its sunday night!!!

Woohoo, i love sleep, me zzzzzzzzzzzz

Scoobs
10-01-08, 03:41 PM
........this was many years back ........."you must be hungry or thirty by now"

Clearly a VERY long time ago. Closer to 50 now eh zig!

melody
10-01-08, 03:42 PM
I presume you're talking about "in bed, asleep"? Not recouperating following major bowel surgery for instance?

Yes. "in bed, asleep".

Bit worried about which NHS Trust permits a 75 hour week.
Clearly illegal under WTD.:D

Technically,6 shifts over two weeks.

Back end of week one, and top end of week two.

Luckypants
10-01-08, 03:48 PM
Well about 18 hours after getting back from Canada one time.

Spiderman
10-01-08, 03:49 PM
Clearly a VERY long time ago. Closer to 50 now eh zig!

D'oh!!!
thanks dubby, fixed it now :lol:

Scoobs
10-01-08, 03:54 PM
D'oh!!!
thanks dubby, fixed it now :lol:

Have you been drinking.

sv-robo
10-01-08, 04:11 PM
9 weeks on traction:)

Spiderman
10-01-08, 04:45 PM
Have you been drinking.

Nah, you intoxicate me enough ;)

gettin2dizzy
10-01-08, 04:46 PM
32 hours awake drinking from hong kong to sydney left me in bed for a solid 24 hours. Slept through the cleaner hoovering the room too :)

northwind
10-01-08, 07:15 PM
I think 5 days after I did my leg in... But I slept almost continously for 72 hours after the leeds festival one year- got up long enough to eat, do my insulin, go to the toilet, get a drink, sack out again. Nothing quite like 72 hours almost constantly awake and largely drunk followed by a riot followed by standing on a train for 8 hours to give a man a taste for unconsciousness.

shonadoll
10-01-08, 07:23 PM
I got a tempur mattress a couple of years back, and spend a lot of my time in bed now. Longest sleep about 14 hours, but after my cruciate op spent about three days solid in bed. Bliss!

Speedy Claire
10-01-08, 07:35 PM
I also bought a tempur mattress and it`s the comfiest thing I`ve ever slept on!!

My longest sleep was whilst working on A and E and being totally stressed out and unable to sleep. One of the doctors gave me a sleeping pill after ending a late shift.. I took the pill and went to bed bout midnight, I should`ve been up for an early shift the next day but slept thru the alarm and woke up at 11pm the following night!! I woke up to hear bout 7 messages on my answer machine asking me where the hell I was cos I hadn`t turned up for my shift :D

Richie
10-01-08, 08:45 PM
about 36 hours (not in bed but on the floor in the outhouse as thats where my mum & dad left me with a duvet) recovering from a all day / night drinking leaving party as I was going backpacking around the globe back in 1989...
missed my first flight :-(
benedictine.... bloody horrible medicine tasting stuff...

gettin2dizzy
10-01-08, 09:55 PM
I thought i'd heard the tempur mattresses were really sweaty and a bit horrible?

Speedy Claire
10-01-08, 10:01 PM
Not at all... I think they`re fantastic, extremely supportive and I can`t stress how comfortable they are. Have never had a problem with sweat! Mind you i`ve never had any sweaty horrible men in it! :D

Pedrosa
10-01-08, 10:27 PM
Would depend on the company.;)

Speedy Claire
10-01-08, 10:33 PM
lol exactly!!!

Sean_C
11-01-08, 12:04 AM
My longest in bed is probably about 10 or 11 hours. Usually after a 5 day stint playing music and drinking in ireland with little to no sleep :(

yorkie_chris
11-01-08, 12:13 AM
My personal record is when I smashed up most of the carpal bones in my wrist, did it about 7, back from A&E about 10, was rather painful so drank a fair amount of whiskey as well as the codeine prescribed.
Went to bed at 11pm, woke up at 5pm.

Lozzo
11-01-08, 01:35 AM
Worked 15 days solid for about 16 hours a day, the last three nights I got about 3 hours sleep on each. During the days I'd maybe have to drive about 350 miles each day and work on the tools for the rest of the time. I then collapsed into bed on Friday morning at about 11am. I woke up on Sunday at 7am for a pee, then lazed in bed reading because I was still too knackered to go down and cook something to eat. I eventually called my daughter and she drove 70 miles to cook for us both. That was the worst one, I regularly used to do those kinds of hours when I was self-employed, but boy, I needed that sleep.

3 years later I had a mini-stroke.

muffles
11-01-08, 01:32 PM
This thread actually makes me want to go to bed!

DanAbnormal
11-01-08, 01:45 PM
22 hours (give or take).

Came back from a 2 week excercise in the Brecon Beacons andd was absolutely spent. I think it took me about a week for my muscles to recover fully.

Ah the good ol' days! :rolleyes:

missyburd
11-01-08, 01:54 PM
never long enough :rolleyes:

Dave The Rave
11-01-08, 03:32 PM
Close to 24 hours for me. After a week of winter climbing in Alpes and a drive back to Prague. That was continuous, uninterupted sleep with no toilet breaks etc. Awesome!