Kimberly: Nap Appina

If you are following my blog an dif you are following my life at all you will know that I am a sleeper. The past few years I cant stay awake sometimes and I tend to nap 2-3 hours everyday. I have been seeing doctors to find out whats wrong with me and they can find nothing. Back in October I got to see a sleep doctor and he put a rush on me getting in for a sleep study. Well the "rush" day came yesterday. I went to the hosptial to check in for the night to see if they would find anything as they study my sleep.

I arrived at 8pm checked in to emergency and then headed up to the waiting room. I walked in and it was dead quiet I was thinking coem on peope lets talk, but no one did. Then I nurse came in and we all filed in to the next area. He started to call out a name and the room number. I kinda felt like I was in prison. As the name was called you took your stuff and went into your room. When I got to my room I walked in and put my stuff on the chair and wondered now what its 835pm. Well thankfully it wasnt to much after another nurse came in and talked me and said I coudl get ready for bed and then she would start hooking up the wires.

Me with the wires.

Well form the picture you can see the wires. Every wire you see on the blue pad there is a spot on my body with some wire as well. I didnt get the back of my head. But they monitored my blinking, breathing, sounds, leg movement, rib cage movenment, heart, oxygen, etc. THis is what I carried aroudn with me for a whole day. I dont have a picture of the night tubes in my nose and on my finger etc that I have to sleep with. Well I finally went to bed at 1030pm and if you look in the bed picture this is my home away from home lol. Next time I will bring my own blanket a sheet is not enough I was so cold. And notice the camera on the roof yep they watch me sleep all night.

So when I went in to bed the nurse told me if I have sleep appina she will coem in around 2pm and wake me and put on a breahting mask then I iwll have to get up at 6am. If I dont then i can sleep through the night and wake up and 8am. Pretty sweet deal. Well I was the only one out of the 5 there last night that got up at 8am :). yet this meant they didnt figure out what was wrong with me besides I dotn snore lol.. The nurse said I had to leave the wires on until I saw the doctor everyone else got theres off. And I had to give a urnie sample. I went and foudn out no one else had to so why me. They wanted to test for drugs me me lol. Ya thats why I slept so well. Anywyas I wont keep this long. Doctor sees me says I slept fine doesnt know whats wrong so they can keep me for the day sleeps. So this is around 9am now. SO the day sleeps mean you have to go back and have naps every 2 hours from 10am -6pm. they let you try and sleep for 20 min then they wake you up and you have free tiem until the next nap time. There were about 6 all together. I am pretty sure I fell asleep at least 4-6 times and was dreaming in at least 2. They know but wont tell you if you were actually asleep and dreaming...anywyas so i spent the day in this bed with these wires to basically find out when I fill out a form I can now say I dont snore (so if you ever thought it was me snoring think again lol j/k. TOmorrow the doctor reviews my day sleeps and calls me to let me know what they foudn and what they can do to help if I have nap appenia. Anyways there is the overveiw of my sleep study. No mask for me and no real answers still. I am trustign that God knows so I will keep moving in life living it how I can for Him.

Thanks for those that have been praying for me and my health! But God is good..so far nothing serious so that is a blessing