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[zanfur]

It's been about a year since I've posted how my life was going. I figure I can do it again without boring people too much.

I still work at the same place I did a year ago, although it was a new job then. I'm rakeofdoom's boss. The company went through a really harsh time over the holidays, shrank from about 110 people worldwide to around 60 -- lots of

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[ladyallyn]

First of all, congrats on losing the weight!!! It's a good thing in general, and *may* help with the sleep apnea. I had obstructive sleep apnea, mostly as a result of multiple facial fractures from a motorcycle accident back in the 80's. After two years and four surgeries I was *done* with being repaired and didn't let them do the last thing, which was fix the deviated septum and take care of my sinuses/turbinates. I spent the next 15 years having to take a decongestant every night before bed or waking up with a headache, and *always* struggling to wake up. I finally broke down and had the septum/sinus/turbinate surgery in 2000 -- it helped a lot, but not quite enough. A year later I had my tonsils out. I'd had chronic throat stuff as a kid and my tonsils were clearly obstructive. shoulda had them out when I was 5, it would have been MUCH easier, but it made all the difference in the world! I no longer have to take a decongestant every night and don't snore to speak of. I still hate to get up early, but that's for entirely different reasons :-)

Central sleep apnea is a different animal, and, I think, potentially more serious. It's generally associated with chainsaw snoring and intermittent periods of silence when you stop breathing. My brother has it and I'm sure my Mom does. Before my brother got a CPAP machine *I* could hear him stop breathing from across the house. I'm hearing impaired and a VERY sound sleeper, and it was distinct enough to wake me. It was shocking when he came to visit the first time with the machine and I couldn't hear his breathing at all.

Get it checked -- for you and your partners' well being. I don't recall if you're in-city or on the eastside. I can't personally recommend any docs in-city, but if you want an eastside recommendation I can probably set you up.

Re: Possibly TMI

[zanfur]

This is embarrassing, as you obviously know who I am, but I can't figure out where we've met. Would you enlighten me?