Hi everybody. Yeah, I know, The blog has been MIA since June. The last thing I wrote about was seeing the Police in New Orleans. A lot has happened since then. Lot's of stuff. We'll get to that shortly. First let's talk about the main thing that has been keeping me from writing this blog.
For the past two years or so I have had a bit of a sleeping disorder. For longer than that I have snored. You can ask anyone that has had to share a room with me, it's pretty loud. But the last two years I have had a problem were I wake a lot. A first it seemed like it was a couple times a night. then it progressed to about 4 times. Then to about every hour to hour and a half.
For the first year or so, I dealt with it no problem. I just took a lot of naps. Sometime around last May I found myself getting snappy and defensive with people over nothing.
This summer I started feeling tired.......all of the time. There were few things I could do without getting that sleepy feeling. I found that the road trips to the gigs, were harder and harder to make without pulling over a couple of times for naps. I also started getting tired at work. My head would bob at my desk. as time went on I found that I can't stop at a red light without wanting to take a little nap. Till finally one day I fell asleep at my desk and my boss got on to me. (Oddly enough it was the day after I got the team player of the month at work for the 3rd time). She basically said I needed to get help and have it on file, because of the CEO caught me sleeping he would have her fire me, and she doesn't want to do that.
Well, I finally found a Sleep Doctor. An ENT named DR. Gadlage. His office set me up with a Sleep study and a CT Scan of my sinus. The Sleep study was misery. You get all hooked up to these wires and they ask you to sleep on your back. I was already having a hard time staying asleep, now all this was making it hard to get to sleep.
Anyhoo, it turns out that the scan showed I have a deviated septum from a broken nose I didn't I once had.
The Sleep study showed much more. Although I am sleeping about 82% of the time, I am only getting about 13 minutes of REM sleep. You need about 30 to feel rested. I am also only getting 62% of the oxygen I need. Basically it is like running a car on 64 octane gas. NICE.
The official diagnosis is Severe Sleep Apnea.
I am supposed to have Sleep Therapy again to fit me with a CPAP, forced air machine. Hopefully that will fix the problem.
Honestly, I can't remember what being rested feels like. I have no recollection of it.
ok, enough of that. In October I got a puppy. Her name is Roxanne. She is a flat-coat retriever mix. she is a little over 5months old. And she kicks ass. Tomorrow I am having a fence installed in my back yard for to have a little play/poop area. I will post pictures of her on my MYSPACE very soon.
Hopefully once we get this CPAP going I will be able to have more awake time to type out dome blogs.
thanks,
john
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