This is exactly right.

Hi, my name is Kelly. I'm a big fan of the podcast, so it's a real treat to be here sharing my story about sleep, or in my case, lack of it.

I was nearing the end of my final quarter at college, and I'd spent my finals week living off caffeine pills and no sleep

in an effort to cram for my tests. The day after my last presentation, I decided to go

cold turkey on the caffeine, just spend a few hours at my internship and then head home for some

uninterrupted napping. My internship, I could feel the heaviness of my week of all-nighters

pulling at me,

so I asked to leave early and got in my car to battle the early developments of rush hour traffic.

As I sat in my car, the stop and go movement slowly lulled me to sleep,

and the next thing I knew, I was jolted awake by a thud as my car had rolled forward and struck the Jeep in front of me.

Because we were going so slow, the only damage done to the Jeep was a cut in his wheel cover.

The driver was so nice and checked on me to make sure I was okay and then drove off.

Other than being incredibly embarrassed, I was fine, but my car, Betty, the cute little blue car I'd had since I was

16, had damaged to her frame and was totaled. Now that I'm older, I'm incredibly cautious of driving

fatigued. I was so lucky. My wake-up call didn't hurt anyone except poor Betty. ready....you know, The

The Wow. I mean, what a harrowing. What a harrowing. And also, like, relatable. I know.

Who hasn't stayed up way too late, many nights at a row. Way too often.

Yeah. I know. Terrifying. Glad you're okay. I'm sorry about your car. I know. I know. Kelly, thank

you so much for sharing your story with us. We really appreciate it. We do. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Hi, I'm Erin Welsh. And I'm Erin Elman Updike. And this is, this podcast will kill you.

Welcome to Sleep Part 2. Sleep Part 2. If you didn't listen last week or watch, you should because it's really great. You know, there's a lot of cool stuff. Pretty proud of it.

Absolutely. In last episode, we discussed sort of like, what is sleep? What are the different stages of sleep? A little bit about what sleep does for us and how we fall asleep, et cetera. We talked about sleep in animals. Very cute stuff.

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