Sleep Study

So after fighting insomnia for 19 months (yes, that would be the same age as Sam) my Dr finally had me have a sleep study. I don't know if anyone of you has ever had one but, not so fun. First of all I checked in at 9:30 pm to be greeted by my technician. He's probably a great guy but something about him was a little creepy. Possibly the scruffy facial hair or really heavy Texan accent, but at any rate not someone I really wanted to have watch me sleep all night.

I got into my room got ready for bed and my tech came into to apply the electrodes. One on each leg, 3 on my chest, and I can't even tell you how many were applied to my scalp. They all had wires that were attached to a box and I kid you not there were probably at least 20-30 wires of various colors coming out of it. I then got tucked into bed with these wires at the side of my pillow (a little disconcerting) and then had to have an oxygen tube put in my nose and some sort of metal paper clip like sensor taped there as well.

Because I said I usually got to bed at 10:30 the lights were turned out and I was left there to try to feel cozy and at home so that I would have a great night sleep. I think that I finally dozed off to be woken up by the creepy tech guy because one of the wires came off of my leg. A little while later he came in again to tell me that they needed me to sleep on my back. I never sleep on my back and I find it the absolutely most uncomfortable way to sleep, but some how thanks to sleep medication I managed to doze back to sleep but kept waking up again and thinking someone was in my room. (Possibly because I had aready been visited by the tech several times) I had a dream right before I was woken up at 5:30 to start my day that the sleep study was over and they served me breakfast and I was on my way home with the other patients there only to wake up to 30 electrodes attached to my body. I was so glad to have that done I'll tell you what it was one of my worst nights of sleep and I am so exhausted.

I will do everyone a favor and not share the details of my colonoscopy a couple of weeks ago. I think that I should start a blog giving my commentary of all of the icky medical tests there are, since I think that I have now had most of them. If anyone has a medical test coming up let me know and I can tell you what to expect. :)