Those nights are over!

It was a joke in my family… one that I never wanted to hear and NEVER had me laughing! “Mom snores loud enough to wake the dead” was the comment. I couldn’t do anything about that problem so I thought I just had to live with it.

I began to notice that I was really dragging by late afternoon and desperately wanted to take a nap. Of course that was rarely possible, but the feeling would not go away. One Sunday morning while in church, I had an overwhelming desire to just lie down and sleep. Startled by the strength of that desire, I began to wonder what was wrong with me. I was in church! I was there by choice and everything happening that was interesting to me. My thoughts turned into a prayer for guidance for a response that was full of more that my “ordinary” solution oriented thinking.

In the following days, I made a decision to have a sleep study done. After making the appointment, I went to a local sleep clinic, got wired up and went to sleep in a lovely room.   A professional sleep study staff member observed and monitored me as I slept. Within 4 hours they came in to add a CPAP machine to my head after informing me that I was waking up 30 times every hour in a struggle to breath… and snoring very loudly the whole time. It’s called obstructive sleep apnea.

The next morning I went home with my own CPAP machine and in 4 days of deep, sound, restorative sleep I began to feel like a brand new person. That feeling of needing an afternoon nap is gone!

These days I am sleeping like a rock every night and feeling wide awake all day long.

Marion Lorence
Glendale Place, Resident Manager
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