One of the things that happens to a lot of us seamen takes place either when we arrive back to work or when we get home.
Getting back into the swing of things can take a couple of days.
Sleep patterns have to adjust and bowel and bladder habits also have to readjust as well as feeding schedules and eating habits.
A lot of people in my business have two totally seperate life styles and therefore have adjustments to make. I think the guys with a larger family have more things to deal with.
Years ago I had problems coming home as the generator on board here runs 24/7.
Although it isn't loud as it is in a seperate area, it does provide a background noise. The silence of it shutting down will wake a sailor up instantly. The lack of the background noise used to make it hard for me to sleep so I used to run something for background noise. A fan was pretty good in the summer. Shutting the fan off would wake me instantly.
These days making te switch from ship to shore or shore to ship is a little easier, but there are still quite a number of things that have not changed.
I am now back to my sea schedule, and now everything is OK.
Of course, when I get off I will have to return to my shoreside schedule.
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