Breathe Us In, Slowly

So Week One of CPAP usage is in the books. I wish I could say that I am feeling refreshed and lively. I am not. But, it hasn't been AS bad as I thought it would be. My biggest issue is waking up in the middle of the night. If something (cat,dog,husband, ect) wakes me up, I have a very hard time getting back to sleep. Getting the mask to seal perfectly is somewhat of a science and once you start messing around with it you might as well forget about falling right back to sleep.

I have a Resmed Swift mask.

Basically this little nasal pillow fits nicely up to my nostrils and attaches to tubing that goes into the cpap machine.



The tubing connects to the machine which pushes filtered air over a heated humidifier and into my nose. If the humidifier is too warm, it can cause water to pool in the mask, waking you up with something akin to waterboarding.

Other than the sensation of being forcibly drowned and knowing that you look like a cyborg in the bed, it hasn't been too terrible.

Last night was our Preschool Graduation. I am not sure why Preschoolers need a Graduation ceremony, but it seems like a good excuse to hand out portfolios and eat cake. Several of the kids won't be staying for the summer and I will miss them.

Work has been increasingly frustrating. Besides the fact that the air conditioning is STILL NOT WORKING, we have been dealing with a check forgery case, and losing our self payers one by one as the economy has slipped. I know that things will turn around, but I don't like when our numbers are not as high as normal.

And in an ironic tidbit of trivia, 3 years ago today I had my first sinus surgery.

06/06/06


heh.