Sleep test...the saga...

Oct 10, 2010

So last Monday, I was taking the week off from work to move and whatnot. Monday night was my sleep test. I had to show up at the clinic at 9:45pm...luckily, it was in the same place as Dr. P's office. When I showed up, the technician told me to get ready and then she would start hooking me up to all of the stuff, which would take about 45 minutes. Yikes!
So she had me sit in a chair and hooked up the EKG (one on my right upper chest and then one on the left ribcage)...then she started attaching the electrode cable thingies...Those who have gone through the sleep study know the Medusa cords that I speak of...She started glueing them all over my face and scalp and then taping them on top of that. After that, came the pusle/ox monitor on my finger tip and then the wires on my legs and then the breathing tube. I actually didn't have a single problem with the stuff except that the pulse/ox was glowing orange and the breathing tube was ridiculous...
I was so afraid of pulling something off and my mind wouldn't stop racing that I spent 4 hours trying to coax myself to go to sleep. I guess I eventually passed out because a second later, it was 6am and she was waking me up to run through the tests before taking everything off.
The first thing I said was "I think I failed." LOL - She also said that I got a good REM cycle in there, so I am hoping that I passed enough that I won't have to do it every again.

Now I got back on the 13th, among other appointments, to get results...

13th schedule is barium swallow, follow-up on sleep test - follow-up on psych test, nutrition class.

I can't believe how fast things are going...it is less than a month until I am sleeved! I am totally ready for it. 

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