Worst. Sleep. EVER.
i arrived for my sleep study about 8:30pm in a non-descript office park in West County after leaving Matt with all our friends at the bar. i brought me some 'jammy-type clothes to sleep in and they spent about 15 minutes wiring me up. Damn, it was a lot and i'm still trying to get all the glue out of those hard-to-reach places. i watched the 10pm "Rachel Maddow" before heading off to slumber.
i slept terribly by which i mean about my usual for a Sunday (even though it was a Friday). my dreams were vivid...lots of ninja-type swooping through the air, but only 2 shootings and one knifing. Think Ang Le meets Quinten Tarrentino. But i was awake enough to hear the garbage trucks and see a crack of light around the edges of the window covers and when the woman came in to wake me up. i asked if it was, what, 7am? It was indeed. At first i thought that since they didn't come in to try out a machine that this wasn't my problem and i would have to keep searching for a solution. Then i talked to the doctor who came in to check the data. Granted, they had 1,000 pages, but they could make some obvious observations. The average person stops breathing maybe 3 or 5 times an hour. You have sleep apnea if you stop 18 times. i stop an average of 30 times an hour. The reason they didn't come in to try out a CPAP on me was that it took me until the wee hours of the morning just to get into any REM sleep.
So i have to go back next Thursday - i'll come direct from the airport - and get wired up all over. As the kids say: "Epic FAIL".