sleep apnea update

this is probably the most interesting part of the whole lab test:

i was supposed to go to sleep at 11 and they would wake me at 6. i woke up at 4 and couldnt get back to sleep... at home i woulda just got up and gone online or something, but here i was wired up and i figured i owed it to them to stay in bed for the whole thing... so from 4 till 5:30 i tossed and turned, shut my eyes for a few minutes, then peeked at the clock to see if any minutes had gone by yet, etc... at 5:30 i finally got back to sleep for a little while.

the lab report tells a somewhat different story:

between 4 and 5:30 i was quickly falling asleep, my breathing stopped, after a few seconds i began choking and gasping and woke myself up... then immediately fell asleep and did it all over again... over and over for 90 min

so what i perceived as being solid non-sleep, uneventful and tedious, was in fact filled with little bits of sleep and bits of me struggling to stay alive... you wouldnt think something like that could happen without you having any awareness of it, but trust me

anyhoo, i felt like hell when i woke up, but under the circumstances i guess that makes sense...

(i get the final lab result analysis in march, so no updates till then...)

PS: the mattress at the lab was the most comfortable one ever!! :) :)