Friday, January 8, 2016

Sleep Apnea


Ms M was a lady who obviously had worked tirelessly in a government job and was highly organized, but in her advanced years and at the start of her fight with dementia was forgetting things. However she was dealing with sleep apnea and was off to pick up a new machine required to monitor the problem. ($5000 item). I dropped her off and thirty minutes later she called to return and on the way back she related this fascinating story: 

Not long after the loss of her husband she went on a vacation with a friend. She had no idea that she snored so while sleeping and snoring in a room with this other lady she was obviously found out and when she jumped out of a deep sleep because of the apnea she opened her eyes to see her room-mate holding a pillow just above her face to which she commented calmly “and what are you doing?”. This naturally startled the lady who obviously had other ideas on how to stop her snoring. Ms M never had any problem with that lady after that. 

[true or fabricated I am sure it is not out of the question]

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