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My CPAP Machine and Me
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HOW I KNEW I HAD SLEEP APNEA
My dad snored so loud we would always make fun of him. Mom would tell us to leave him alone and not wake him up. She used to say that if he was snoring that loud he must really be tired and in a deep sleep. Boy, was she wrong. Today, he would have been sent to the sleep doctor and put on a CPAP machine.
So, move ahead to me. I have always snored. I follow after dad in a lot of things. Dad always had a stuffy nose and sprayed Afrin in his nose every night before bed. Ditto. Dad always had acid reflux and chewed tums all the time. Ditto. Dad snored like a freight train. Ditto.
I can remember many times when the kids were young of getting a pillow thrown at me, and a frustrated child who couldn’t sleep would holler, “MOM! Roll over or something!” Every time we would go on vacation and stay in the same hotel room, the hubby would take along ear plugs for the kids. Either they wore the ear plugs or I would get two pillows thrown at me at the same time. I believe the older I have gotten, the worse the snoring has become.
One time I went on a ladies retreat with several women from church. We all stayed in a house and went on some shopping sprees. There were two of us who snored, so they sent us to the upstairs bedroom and shut the stair door. I…
