Sleep disorder/anxiety

Hi Sheila it's my partner he has very severe COPD and wakes up with terrible anxiety all the time and feels really poorly 

I will tell you what to do and that is to buy some re-chargeable walkie talkies.  My husband was exactly the same, severe COPD, very anxious, frightened of going to sleep, wakening up frightened of not being able to get hold of me if I was asleep in another room, but once we had the walkie talkies, he pinned it to his top and I pinned one to mine, he could contact me wherever I was in the house and when he said 'help me' or 'can you come now' I could be there in seconds and you would not believe how that helped him.  Your husband will want the same as mine did, peace of mind and not feeling alone and frightened when you leave the room, even if it is only the room next door.  If I was making a meal I would just press  the button and say ''are you okay' and it got to be a joke, we even had a call sign, father-ship to mother-ship and vice versa. If he wanted a paper, magazine or anything at all he would just say, the next time you come up will you bring so and so.  The walkie talkies made him content and relaxed and that helped him with his breathing as he wasn't tensed up all the time.  I know how hard it is for you, my husband started being ill 8 years ago, just before he retired at 60 so we did not have much of a life after that, all I could think of was thank god I am fit and well, even though I was a few years older than my husband and that I had retired earlier and was able to spend 24 hours a day looking after him.  If I had been younger than him and had to work I honestly do not know what we would have done as like I say, he was terrified of being on his own, even when I was in the next room, he had to have the comfort of being able to contact me and me being there in a second and that is why the walkie talkies were a godsend.  I am sending you all my very best wishes because no-one knows what it is like unless you have been in this position.xx