First off, I start a new gig Monday. A part time deal, but it’s something cool. I don’t want to get into details about the nuts and bolts of the job but it’s data based for a major firm. I hopefully will see through the whole contract until the end of the year. It’s been an awesome time going through a real onboarding process, and not the one at my last job which involved meeting my boss on a manhattan corner, talking for 15 minutes and then getting an email address to send my certifications. That process was as shady and shitty as the company I worked for.
The next part I wanted to talk about is sleep apnea. I took a physical and was told I was in bad shape health-wise. The doctor I talked to asked me about my sleep patterns and how I feel when I’m awake. He suggested I go see a sleep specialist, which I did a week later. after talking to the doctor and taking the sleep test, I find out I have moderate apnea (about 15 episodes per hour when I sleep-normal is under 5). Originally I wa to get an mouthpiece, but at the fitting it wa determined I couldn’t iuse one due to my jaw not moving enough forward for it to actually work. So I am on a CPAP machine, and it’s the best thing I’ve done. Sure I look like a rip off Bane from Batman with the mask (Wife disappointed I don’t look like Tom Hardy due to the mask…) but I don’t care. It works. I”ll tell you how life changing:
-I used to wake up grumpy and angry. I felt like each day was like groundhog’s day-just a pathetic repeat of the other. The first night with the machine I woke up the next day feeling totally different. I felt in a much better mood and not in a sludge.
-My mind doesn’t race with different thoughts. Now it’s more quiet and what I do think about it’s less negative or extreme.
-I don’t feel as sad or depressed, and my anxiety is somewhat calmer.
Everyone should get a sleep test done. If you don’t feel right, it could be apnea. I convinced some people to get tested, and I keep thinking if my parents had apnea. Maybe back then if they got it treated, maybe they would have lived a few more years. It would have had less stress on their hearts and the other afflictions they had. Learn from this moron: get checked out!