Friday, February 24, 2012

My Sleep Apnea Journey...

In December I was in the hospital with Pneumonia, and it was there that the nurses thought I was sleeping oddly. My follow up with the pulminologist touched upon my sleeping problems that I have had since I was pregnant. (Getting 8 hours and feeling like I got no sleep at all, feeling sucked of all energy, stuff like that.)He suggested I get a sleep study done, because all my issues seem to lean toward sleep apnea.

So I set up the appointment, and I started to notice more about how I slept, as well as how I was feeling. When I met with the doctor, he said he was 99.99% I had sleep apnea, but we needed to do the sleep study. Two weeks later, I did the sleep study and now I wait for my follow up appointment next week.

I just have to say - I am sick of having no energy. I am sick of not feeling like I am getting any sleep. It is very frustrating when I am too tired to play with my son. Today I feel like I am dragging and I felt completely zapped of energy after the zoo. Last night Mr. followed me to the bedroom because "I looked drunk".

The treatment:

1) I could have that lap band surgery and that will help me lose weight and that may fix things. -- First off, I am not super overweight. Second, that is MAJOR surgery. Not something I really want to do. Also if I have another child, I would have to have surgery to have the band adjusted/taken off.

2) C-Pap machine~ This is the reasonable one of the two. I would have to sleep with a machine helping me to keep my airways open. This would give me a better nights sleep, and that would give me more energy to exercise, and that would give me some weight loss. Sure it would take longer, but this way definitely works.

I will chronicle my journey here... besides the pictures of the cute baby.

The Big 30 - The day the frozen earth melted!

My Birthday was yesterday and for the first time in my life it was warm. As a kid, I can't even begin to tell you how much I hated a winter birthday. In fact now, Mr. and I are going to aim all of our kids for that Spring/Summer Birthday. No kid deserves a blizzard ruining their birthday.

So weeks ago I earned a comp day at work, and decided to take the day off. I figured that I would take Monkey to the Children's Museum and we would go to lunch or something.

Then I saw the weather report... 60 degrees? I instantly thought that we should do something fun and outdoorsy.

Then it hit me. This winter birthday gal wants to go to the zoo!

And zoo we did my fair readers. There is a little zoo in Attleboro Massachusetts called Capron Park Zoo, and it is perfect to go through if you have a 8.5 month old. It took about an hour to travel through (not rushing) and had a petting zoo with llamas and goats!




Monkey gets up close and personal with the goat.

They also had a big run through sprinkler area for the summer and a bunch of swing sets. They also had a little area with those rides that you would see outside of Roche Brothers or Stop and Shop. The ones that cost $.50. Monkey loved the jeep with the giant ape sitting in the passengers seat.



So needless to say, the trip was successful, and a great and memorable birthday was had.

I even made a white cake with homemade strawberry frosting... I just need to work on that frosting technique....cause it came out all soupy! But Mr., Monkey and myself sat around it and sang happy birthday. Mikey was fascinated by the candles and the hats and the blowers! And as usual, My boys spoiled me rotten.