Waking in the night…

One of the not so great elements of getting older…

Is that you tend to need to get up to pee more often during the night. Sometimes once, sometimes (like last night) literally every two hours!

That just leads to disrupted sleep and feeling tired the whole of the next day. Not only did my bladder give me a hard time last night, my smoke detector alarm also decided to join in!

Wired in smoke detectors are required by law and I have two. One outside my bedroom door and one in the passageway leading to the garage. They also have back up 9volt batteries in case there’s a power outage.

Of course the back up battery in the one right outside my bedroom door decided it was done at midnight, because of course midnight is the time for batteries to die.

Which means that the smoke detector alarm starts emitting this really loud intermittent squawk and it won’t stop. Woke me up, woke my dog up and wouldn’t let us get back to sleep. Sigh!

So I got up, turned on the light (which I hate doing in the night, my poor eyes do not appreciate bright lights in the night), unscrewed the smoke detector from the ceiling, then unscrewed the unit and yoinked out the battery.

Silence!

Then an hour later I woke again to pee! Seriously bladder? Calm down!