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Weirdlet ([personal profile] weirdlet) wrote2012-01-12 07:14 am

Sleep Apnea (Get Yourselves Checked!)

So I made like Stoic the Vast and did what my father asked of me- I thought it was crazy, but I did it.  I swallowed the reflex of 'I'm not that heavy, really!' 'I'm not like Dad, I haven't taken any shots to the face*' 'I don't snore!!!' and I've been using generic-brand Breathe-Rite strips for the last two nights running.

I literally cannot remember the last time I felt this not hungover.

I feel upright and alert the way I only usually feel for a few hours during the day.  I don't need to constantly sit, I don't need/want to nap constantly.  I am much, much farther away from a hatred of everyone and everything in the world than usual.  The headache is gone, the one I've been self-medicating with caffeine for forever.

I'm going to call this a yay and lay in a supply of these nifty little things.



*Pop had a nosejob when I was tiny, specifically so that he could breathe again after a lifetime of getting hit in the face.  According to Mom, there was also some malformations that got clipped out.  So I come by my 'certain level of sinus fuckery' honestly, it's not just me being crazy.