Dollface-1981
FEB 9/11
Feb 23, 2011
Feb 9/11
So that brings me to today. Right now I am sitting in the sleep Clinic at the Humber Hospital, waiting to be hooked up to all sorts of wires. that way they can monitor my sleeping and see if I have sleep apnea or any other sleep disorders. I have talked to a few people who have gone through this and I have a feeling that I am not going to sleep every well at all!! I never imagined that I would have to have all of these tests before the surgery!
Feb 10/116:00am
So that was probably the worst sleep I have ever had! They had told me that lights out would be at 9pm, so I stayed up extra late the night before (I havent gone to bed that early in years!) I arrived at the clinic at 8:30, and then had to sit in my room doing nothing until 10:30 when they finally started to hook me up to 20 different wires (including on my legs, chest, all over my face, behind my ears and even in my hair)
They put two belts around me, one around my chest and the other around my waist. I had a breathing tube in my nose and taped to my face, and something else attached to my middle finger. They finally got me in to bed around 11pm, and it was like something out of a scary hospital movie. They left the room but then the doctor came on the loud speaker (he had a very strong Russian accent by the way) He starts to tell me to move my eyes and feet and breathe all different ways...
I am the type of person that nest to change sleeping positions many times throughout the night, so having to lay still on my back all night was really hard. over and over I would start to drift off only to be startled awake when the wires would start to fall. I think I finally fell asleep between 1:30 and 2:00.. and then before I knew it, it was 5:30am and the doctors were turning on the lights and ripping wires off my face. So now here I am at 6:30am, in the hospital waiting area, hoping that Tim Hortons will open soon and waiting for my friend to pick me up.
If I could give a word of advice to anyone about to have a sleep study done... take the next day off because chances are youre going to need a nap!!!
