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April 04, 2003
All wired up and no place to go
If you like lots of colored wires and blinking lights (and who wouldn't) you'll love a sleep study. I had mine last night. First the technician attaches electrodes all over your head (yes, this looks very odd), and to your chest and ankles. Then you get two straps across your waist and stomach, to measure respiration, as well as a couple of breathing sensors for your nose. All this is connected with all the colored wires to the boxes with the blinking lights (which are mostly hidden inside the bedside table). Then you get to try to go to sleep wearing all of this, in a strange room of course. And you can't go to the bathroom without being unplugged. Actually, the whole thing wasn't too bad. If it looks like it might help you, in the middle of the night they add a mask to wear over your nose called a CPAP that is supposed to keep the airways open to prevent apnea. It seemed like that did help me sleep. So we'll see. More bedtimes stories later, kiddies.Posted by markj at April 4, 2003 07:56 AM
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should we call you darth vadar now?
:mellow:
Posted by: jen at April 4, 2003 10:26 AM
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