E has been working tirelessly to upgrade the Moveable Type 2.x installation on Slackers to the brand spanking new 4.x version. It looks like its all ready for prime-time now. Including the custom LiveJournal cross-post functionality that he wrote. Yippie! Now I just have to learn how to use the dang thing...
OH! And comments are working again. Yay!
Last night I had my fourth sleep study. I swear, I'm getting to the point where I can attached those electrodes myself. This study was a CPAP Titration. The sleep neurologist thinks that my apnea is not controlled and that is why I'm not sleeping. I hope it is as simple as that. But I've had now 4 studies, been using the CPAP for 3+ years and I've never felt rested. I think it's something else. But we'll see. In 2 weeks I get the results.
This was by far the nicest study that I've done yet. It was at Kaiser in San Jose. The rooms they have are nicer than many hotel rooms I've stayed in.
It's also interesting to see the differences in procedures that each place does. This one used a special tape measure to measure my skill and she marked my head with red crayon so she'd know where to exactly put the electrodes. The other places just eyeballed it. I got the thick gummy electrode paste put in my hair. It's nasty by not nearly as bad as that cement that I had the first time.
Here I am all wired up and ready to sleep:
Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately, who knows?) I didn't sleep well last night. It took me awhile to fall asleep. And I woke up a number of times. This was with the super-fancy-pants CPAP and an Ambien. I'm really looking forward to getting the results. They are going to let me see my brain waves and the movies and everything. I'm hoping they'll let me get a copy. Mmmm... brain waves.
The not-sleeping thing has taken a turn for the worst the past few days. I'm finding that I'm still not tired at 10:30 at night (when at the beginning of the month I could barely stay up past 8:30), and want to keep reading/watching TV/futzing on the computer doing whatever rather than go to sleep. I think this might be because I know that I'll spend another hour or so just lying there wondering when I'll fall asleep already. It's now right? How about now? Am I asleep yet?
Once I do fall asleep I don't stay that way for long. I know I am sleeping, because I'm having weird and upsetting stress dreams. Last night I dreamed that I had a screaming match with E's mom. But I'm caught in that nether-region of not asleep, not awake, I can't tell if I'm dreaming or just thinking state.
It's exhausting.
I saw a sleep doctor last week and he's sending me for another sleep study. More fun with electrodes! Hopefully I'll hear about that appointment soon. He said that I can even go down there to see the results and they will show me all the graphs and charts and images of my brain waves and stuff. Neat-O! I can't wait.