RECOVERING NICELY!

Yes, I am recovering nicely after surgery last Monday. Sleep apnea wasn’t even on my radar a year ago, and now I have spent the night in a strange room where someone I had only just met taped 30 electrodes all over my body. Those electrodes were monitored all night long, and my doctor had the results by the time I went to see him. They called the process a Sleep Study. I called it quite bizarre! Did I leave out the parts about being video-taped all night long, being waked up sometime in the middle of the night to be told that sure enough, I was have sleep apnea episodes (stopping breathing, then gasping for breath much later, if I'm lucky!), being fitted with a VERY ATTRACTIVE (sexy even ***!!!) CPAP device (I affectionately call it my “elephant nose!”), then being asked to go back to sleep (still being watched, video-taped and monitored electronically). It was...memorable!

I love my husband Peter beyond measure to go through all of that, because I was sleeping just fine. HE was the one who was staying up wondering if I would actually gasp and breathe again. Of course, there was that part about stopping breathing, too; but I didn’t know any of that was going on.

So, I have used the CPAP device for 6 months not too successfully (it kept leaking air when I moved around, then THAT would wake up Peter anyway). We just considered looking for other options and decided that I would take the 70% chance that my apnea would be corrected with this surgery that I had on Monday. As Peter said yesterday, “We just need to wait until the sleep test is done in 2 months to be sure.” I definitely see progress, though; and I know my husband loves me lots to stick by me, through thick , thin, and the elephant nose.