Comments | picks_at_flies: Hospital appointments and sleep

picks_at_flies

Hospital appointments and sleep

Mar 06, 2009 17:45

My hospital appointment happened last week and conveniently fitted into just over an hour - including walking - so I didn't have to take a sick day. I got a letter the day before saying our consultant, who had built the service up virtually from scratch, was leaving us to do the same for a different respiratory illness (COPD I think). It's good ( Read more... )

chinese herbs, sleep, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, osteopath

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fenris_lorsrai March 6 2009, 19:37:04 UTC

Try blocking out more light where you're sleeping, including digital displays. It may help get you to sleep longer and deeper if your brain isn't getting tricked by light pollution.

picks_at_flies March 12 2009, 01:29:07 UTC

The only light source at night* in my room is the router, which is reflected off the floor, mostly out of sight of my head.

* i.e. with all main lights off. Because at night I'm often up.

fenris_lorsrai March 12 2009, 19:57:47 UTC

My router is blue. It makes it look like I'm trapped in a horror movie.

stormwindz March 11 2009, 23:04:37 UTC

Here's a dumb question, and you don't have to answer,

Do they do those jiggly machines that they have for kids for adults? Where you don't have to have a physio, you just strap in for a bit? Are they super expensive?

(I would google to satisfy my curiosity, but I have no clue what they're called.)

picks_at_flies March 12 2009, 01:39:14 UTC

Jiggly things? I am intrigued! Are you talking about those straps that you see in Carry On movies? :p ( ... )

stormwindz March 12 2009, 11:29:13 UTC

Never seen a Carry On movie in my life! I just remember a phone call I took a few years ago, where some consultant had a cousin visiting from the US whose child had CF and wanted to know if we had a jiggly machine at the BRI that he could come use to continue treatment during his visit.

I don't think I heard the proper term; I foisted the query off on one of the CF physios that cover BCH and didn't really think more about it until now.

Thank you for the summary, that's very interesting! Sometimes I feel like my knowledge of all things medical can be summed up by 'a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing' - I know enough to have an opinion but not enough to know what I'm talking about! (Comes from typing dictation, which always has so much implied that I never pick up on.)