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In an earlier article, I had mentioned that i wear a mask in order to sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea in the reason why. Medicine Net .com has a lot of information about this condition and the different ways to handle it.

All of my life I have snored. Sometimes enough to rattle the roof or lift the shingles on our apartment. When my sinuses act up this gets worse. I went through a sleep clinic finally. I had started having trouble with falling asleep even though I was fighting hard to stay awake. Since I am the main driver for our family (me, husband, mother-in-law) that gets to be pretty scary. I sometimes would feel the onslaught of unconsciousness coming on and have to pull over the let my husband drive. I didn’t always have warning though. No accidents happened. That is a giant blessing from God, because I had no control.

I now sleep with two machines. One is a bi-level air pressure machine that keeps my airway open as I sleep. The second machine is called an oxygen concentrator. My prescription for sleeping is a numerical equation that tells the setting of the Bipap machine and the oxygen machine. It is : 19/14 +o2@4LPS. No, this isn’t math like in school. This equation helps to keep me alive. The pulmonary doctor explained that my sleep apnea had gotten to the point of being life threatening. After starting therapy; my memory got better, my blood pressure got better, I didn’t fall asleep when talking to people, my blood sugar got better, my female cycle got better. I no longer thought I was losing my mind. If you know of someone who appears to have some of the problems that have been mentioned, talk to your family doctor. There can be more than one reason for these things. I have only mentioned one.

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Here I am again. Staring at a blank page. This is nothing new, I do this all of the time. sometimes I have a plan for what I want to write about, other times, I just start to type and hope that what comes out makes sense. Does that help? Dunno, but it is the truth.

Got up this morning and got greeted by a frantic white furry person. She loved on me and talked to me for quite a while. I told her that I’m not awake yet. She didn’t care, she loved on me anyway. When I went to sleep last night I had left her asleep on the chair that she has claimed for her own. After settling in and making sure I was tucked in just right, I heard someone meowing very loudly over and over again. She had awakened and was calling for me. She was standing in the doorway to the bedroom. I hollered back (this in spite of the mask I have wear to sleep, but that’s another story) until she appeared on the bed. She talked to me all the way until she got up to me where I was lying. I petted her and loved on her, as she purred. Didn’t take me long to fall asleep.

Before I had gotten a cat, I didn’t know that they could double as a sleeping pill, too. It’s kind of comforting to have an independent creature (as cats sometimes are) seek you out to say goodnight. My husband feels the same way. We sleep on a queen size bed. It’s designed for two people; but, sometimes there are four people in it. Two people with skin, and two people with fur. The two with fur put up with our tossing and turning, only once in a while chewing on a toe that pushes too hard. We are a family.

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