About a month or so ago I woke up one fine morning and Sharla was missing!!!!! I found her in bunking out in Keesha's room; she was escaping my snoring. Apparently, I was doing my best to peel the paint off the wall that evening. L
So, that day I called the doc and set up an appointment. When asked what the issue was, I replied: "My wife has a sleep disorder, my snoring." Well, that led to the picture I sent out last night where I slept-over at the Stormont Vail Sleep Disorder Center. Wow, you can only see a few of the wires that were hooked up to me in that pic. I'm really surprised I didn't dial up some AM radio station!!!
About 1:30 AM, the Sleep Technician (Renee) woke me up and said she had seen enough. They had recorded plenty of data to prove that I have "mild to severe" sleep apnea. So, right then and there she hooked me up to a CPAP machine. For those of you who may be as uninformed as I was, a CPAP machine continuously forces air, through a face mask, into a person thus keeping the air passages clear and working. In my case, prior to being hooked up, I was going about 20-30 seconds without breathing which would wake me and my feeble brain up so I would start breathing again.
Today, I was "given" (Not really, those dang things are expensive!!!!) my own CPAP machine to start using each night.
Move over Sharla, we've starting a three-some!! ;)
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