Working the nightshift is a challenge for anyone. The mind and body must be tricked into living during the dark hours and sleeping while the rest of the world goes by without you. Remove merely one hour of a day"s rest, a nightshift worker is catapulted into a walking coma as he or she struggles to remain conscious. And the old saying of “you can"t get something for nothing” applies while maintaining consciousness in such a walking coma. Irritability, lack of concentration, fits of rage or anxiety and an occasional sensation of passing out could be experienced. With these facts in mind, why in the world would Stephanie"s husband, Frank, stay up during the morning and afternoon to drink? I suppose it"s similar to the functional alcoholic who stays up until midnight, passes out and rises at
