These last months, I have been feeling sluggish and exhausted, always waking up tired. I mentioned it to a doctor and she told me to make an appointment with a pneumologist who is also a sleep specialist, as a proper sleep appointment takes ages to get.
So I had to sleep on night with bands around my chest and waist, an oxygen meter on my finger and a plastic tube in my nose (I was surprisingly able to sleep with all these contraptions).
Monday I showed the doctor the results and sure enough, I have sleep apnea, albeit light, and luckily for me, just when I am sleeping on my back.
But I asked myself, how can I control that if I am asleep?
That’s when a ping-pong ball comes in handy. Or a pool noodle, for that matter. You just attach the ball to the back of your pyjamas, or you wear a belt where you have slid a bit of the pool noodle to make sleeping on back really uncomfortable and you end up getting back on your side.
And it is amazing how much more alert I feel. Don’t need one hour to get out of bed anymore
Posted as part of Six word Saturdays