It’s a joke. She’s saying she thinks she has Sleeping Sickness.
I can’t sleep too long. It just makes working through the aches and stiffness of getting up worse.
I could make the excuse that I might be getting old, but I know it couldn’t be that.
Heh! My achy joints respond to natural remedies...things that can be administered as many times as a person wants. Prescription drugs can only be used “once or twice a day.” And then there are all the cautions with prescription drugs...
No thanks.