It’s a marvelous night for a moondance

[rolanni]

This weekend has got to be a working weekend. But I’m telling you — the pull of that triple-full-moon? Attracts the Rolanni every bit as much as the tides.

At the moment, up here in the mid-country, we have wind — gusts up to 53 miles per hour. That’s some Serious dust in the air. Not to mention the widow-makers that are getting shaken out of the trees. Oh, look, the wind is combing the forest’s hair…

For the coming week — I have a rematch scheduled at the sleep lab on Monday night, this time to fit a mask and ascertain the proper and necessary air pressure. What fun. That means I’ll be late to work on Tuesday, but, happily, Spring Break starts tomorrow. Not, yanno, that I get time off, but the students will be off-campus, and the faculty will scatter like mice. Good time to catch up the work that I had to let slide through at the beginning of the semester.

Hmmm. I wonder if there’s enough time to take a nap before bedtime…

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Now what led to a sleep study for you and what's at issue? My husband just had one fitted right after xmas. I knew he had apnea for years, skinny as he is. Turns out he'd been robbed of sleep for a long time and it was having some interesting side effects. Well, not so interesting, actually.

Anyway, I'm in the group that says hooray for him getting more sleep, but the damned machine is robbing me of sleep. It's not noisy, per se, but if the mask shifts, slips, or something else, the patterns change, the volume in the room changes, and I wake up in a panic that Something Is Wrong.

Here's hoping Steve is a heavy sleeper.

oz

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Now what led to a sleep study for you and what's at issue?

Well...For a couple years now, I've been having a "recurring dream" in which I couldn't breathe and would jerk awake out of DeepSleep gasping. I figured it was Just Stress.

Then Steve noticed that I stop breathing in my sleep, sometimes for up to 30 seconds. Also? I'm tired a lot, which robs me of writing time, and I. Hate. It.

At issue. . .The usual, I guess, from the doctor's point of view -- possible heart damage. Also, not breathing for swathes of time can't actually be good for you. Or me.

I hoping for a nose-ring, myself. I'm claustrophobic, so the least confinement is the best.

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I repeat my devotion to the nose pillow Resmed model mask non-intrusive - (the nose pillows go against the outside of the nose.

Naps

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the tests. I hope you get this all straightened out. I do believe in naps. Even very short ones can help. Ask the cats about those kinds of naps!
C.

Sleep apnea

[(Anonymous)]

Back when I was in the hospital a couple of years ago, one of my room mates was tested with a mask. We were all there following heart surgery, and not doing much anyway, so I suppose it was a good time for her. They determned that she had a problem, and when she got home, she was going to follow up on it. That seemed the simplest was to check on it, to me, though I never did find out if it had anything to do with her needing the by-pass. She was a widow of many years, living alone, so had no one to notice her problem at night. She did say that she was often tired during the day time, and looked forward to it being better.

Joan C,

[(Anonymous)]

I typed the previous message. Didn't know I needed another after this test came up.

Joan C