As many longtime readers of this blog will already know, I use a CPAP machine when I sleep. It’s a very nice, quiet machine that we can’t even hear over the fan that we have blowing in the bedroom at night. The mask is a version called a nasal pillow mask. The plastic and silicone… Read More A Medical Equipment Upgrade
So, I’ve had the CPAP machine for nearly two weeks now, and there are some trends beginning to emerge. In the beginning, there were instances of both waking late and taking naps, but from the first night my body’s overwhelming, undeniable, irresistible urge to lie back down wasn’t there. I attributed the naps to being… Read More The Effects of CPAP Machine Usage on Middle-Aged Males Suffering From Sleep Apnea: A Brief Analysis and an Overly Long Title
I’ve picked up the new CPAP machine and mask. All the parts of the machine and mask that require daily cleaning have been cleaned and are drying at this time. The machine itself has been programmed and is set up, awaiting use tonight. The tracking software that automatically tracks my compliance (which is a bigger… Read More Tonight’s the Night
Friday night was the follow-up sleep study. They gave me the same intake form, describing my day, gave me the same technician (Carl) to wire me up, gave me mostly the same wiring configuration – everything but the nasal cannulas – and then fitted me with a mask. It was a nose pillows type of… Read More Hope on the Horizon
I woke up this morning intending to be a spitfire, full of energy for whatever the day had in store for me. By 10:30 I was back in bed. I suppose that I should explain something at this point in the ongoing lethargy topic that I bring up frequently here. It’s taken a long time… Read More Lethargic Despite Intentions
Okay, not really, but I sure looked like one last night. Alternately my look was referenced as reminiscent of Dune, The Empire Strikes, and the Matrix. Back on July 21, I mentioned that I was getting a sleep study. Last night was my night. I showed up at 9:00 pm, pajamas and pillow in my… Read More I Am Cyborg
Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve started the ball rolling towards a sleep study. This will be my third one. My first one said that I had sleep apnea but that I had averaged six times an hour where I stopped breathing – not a particularly severe case, but one that merited a CPAP machine.… Read More The Tale of Darth Babar
