Sleep Study Wonders

3:00 A.M. this morning upon waking up at
  the sleep-study lab near Summerline.

By Cliff Harrison

Just a quick note. I finished my sleep study last night where they had me on that machine that is like an oxygen mask. It is not oxygen, but recycled air. Anyways, they said I did good and I will need to be hooked up to one. They said I have to wait for the doctor to review all their tests and then subscribe me the machine. They said the doctor would recommend it, they know that for certain, they said, but I have to wait until he contacts me and get an appointment.

I know much of my sleep problems originated during the period I was homeless and Oscar Goodman and his henchmen committed international crimes and abused the homeless with his inhumane sleep deprivation. While homeless I had gone as many as five to six days without sleep being pushed by Las Vegas Metro Police Department, City Marshals and hired rent-a-cops from the Black Panther's cesspool.

I didn't really sleep all that well or much. (But yet much better than I normally did.) And I did wake up several times last night. But when I woke up I went right back to sleep instead of laying there thinking or getting up like I normally do. They woke me up at 3:00A.M. because I had moved over on my side and shifted the mask, so the air wasn't getting into my nose, but escaping. You need the mask the most when you are on your back. Anyways, the study was suppose to run until 5:00 A.M. but they said they had enough information to confirm I needed the machine so I went ahead and finished it. They told me from the computers they monitored during my sleep and comparing to the other sleep study they took on me that I would feel great today. AND I DO!!

I didn't sweat in my sleep like I normally do and soak my clothes and the pillow either. I woke feeling rested, refreshed and full of energy. EAGER TO GO!!

I HAVE NOT HAD THIS MUCH ENERGY OR FELT THIS GOOD IN YEARS. After I came home I did my usual walk around the upstairs apartment complex. My legs didn't tire or get sore like they usually do. And then I immediately started and finished all my physical therapy exercises and then immediately went downstairs to the gym and worked out for 1/2 hour on the exercise bike, stair climbing machine, rowing machine, chest building machine and leg developing machine and then I was still ready to run a marathon.

I can't believe the difference. It's amazing!!

It's going to be a bummer waiting for the doctor and waiting until I get my own machine now knowing this is a significant cause to my lack of energy. Maybe it isn't all of it, but it is enough that I can have enough energy to get working back out and get fit. For some reason I walk better, too. And I got a lot done today that I normally would not have gotten done.

My heart doctor is the one who figured this all out and set me up with the sleep (another Heart and Vascular) doctor. They said it is all related to the heart and vascular system some how. I don't know how, but it is.

I asked them if Medicare would pay for it, and told them I didn't have any money to pay for a machine, and they said yes, the doctors writes a prescription for it. I told them about going homeless in a couple of months for a few months and they said the machine comes with a carrying case and my model would be a little smaller than their model. I'll believe it when I see it. At least now I know that sleep problems is at least 80% maybe 95% of my problems. And maybe once I get exercising and fit the rest will fall in place.

I just can't believe it makes that much of a difference. But it really does!!

I'm just now getting a bit tired, and it's 3:15 PM, twelve hours since I've been up. I usually had to have to take one or two naps by this time and screw up my sleeping schedule, which the machine will correct.

Well maybe it wasn't a such a quick note but... good news for me for a change as long as Medicare will pay for the machine.