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Re: My marriage or my sanity

Posted by BreathingEZ on April 12, 2006 at 07:30:41:

In Reply to: My marriage or my sanity posted by lightdozer on April 11, 2006 at 09:18:55:

I showed my wife your very important concerns. I thought her perspective might be helpful to you. This is is what she wrote: I can't address the crowding issue or separate bedrooms, but my husband was the worst at snoring and had the apnea episodes. It took me over 10 years to get him to have a sleep study done, and then it was because he would wake up in a panic because he "couldn't breathe" Nothing new to me--I'd been timing his apnea episodes for years at over one minute and then I'd punch him to wake him up--couldn't stand him not breathing. I had gotten to the point where I would get up and sleep on the couch if I needed the sleep badly. If I could get to sleep before he did, I could sleep for a while.
He has been on CPAP for over 3 years now. I can't begin to tell you how great it has been for our sleep habits. I was concerned about the noise of the machine, also, but he has it on the floor next to his side of the bed, and I don't even know it's there or turned on. Once in a while he gets a leak and I can hear the air, so I just wake him up and he adjusts the mask. The only problem is that the mask does have an air exhaust, so he usually sleeps on his back (he can do that now and still breathe) or turned on his side away from me, so that it doesn't blow in my face.
We both get a great night's sleep now. My husband doesn't move around nearly as much as before CPAP. He's in a deep sleep that he wasn't getting before. He stays up past 8pm without falling asleep now, too.
He won't go anywhere overnight without it. We have taken it to Europe, Mexico and all over the states. You fly with it as carryon luggage and it should not count as one of your carryons. It is a necessary medical devise. In Germany the woman checking the carryons asked what it was. When my husband said a repirator, she said,"Oh, a luft machine". Guess that means air machine.
Hope this helps.

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