Wish I didn't have to sleep. I'd like to try blogging, but it's always towards the middle of my list of priorities, and I struggle to tend to even the top handful of priorities.
I wanted to blog about a sleep disorder I have, which is Sleep Apnea. Wanted to add a brief comment to MegNut's blog, and a link to here, about how I found out the secret of the nap the hard way: I can't survive without them. When I relax while sleeping, my throat and nasal passaages relax too much, and they collapse. I suffocate, briefly. The body sends a jolt of adrenalin (or something) and, although I don't wake up, I have a "micro-awakening" to cause the body to open up my breathing passages. Then I drift back to what, in my case, passes for sleep.
Too tired to discuss (lack of) treatment options... Briefly, the Doc told me if I didn't get it squared away with a mechanical device called a CPAP, he'd hafta recommend a trache.. a tube in my lower throat I can open up when I'm sleeping. He said, frankly, my Sleep Apnea was so severe he didn't think a trache would help a lot, but that's what he would hafta recommend. I haven't been back since, although I did call up once to try to get an appointment to see him. Answering service didn't relay the message, or something, and I haven't been eager enough to follow back up with him...
It's theoretically possible I'm in remission, but not likely. The last 6 months I apparently have been sleeping so lightly that occasionally my breathing passages relax before I fall asleep. I'm in that sorta half-awake/half-asleep state, and it sure feels like I'm suffocating, at times... I could be dreaming, because that's one of the symptoms of Sleep Apnea.. you start dreaming before you fall asleep... But it sure doesn't feel like I'm dreaming, so I take it that it's actually happening that way.
And I'll tell ya: I don't much cotton to the feeling of being suffocated... Happens rarely, but there's been a few times when I really didn't even want to try to go to sleep, because of that... Prefer it to happen when I'm "asleep" so I'm not aware of any of it...
All this is pretty weird, I know, but believe it or not the Sleep Apnea does appear to have some advantages... As long as you don't fall asleep while your driving, or something like that...:-(
I post this knowing I give people an easy out: If they want to say my ideas are just a bunch of dreams, they can now make a pretty good, scientific, case for saying that... I don't put too much faith in my own ideas, for a number of reasons, so that's why I prefer to test all ideas against actual experience...
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