When Gloria had her second diaphragm repair surgery, she came out of it with thirteen wires and tubes running in and out of her body. Well I have just more wires and tubes attached to me for the polysomnogram: many more.
I actually did better than I thought that I would. I made it until four in the morning before one of the attendants had to come in and repair some of the connections that had become disconnected. But having that much stuff attached to you doesn't do anything for your ability to sleep, particularly when you normally do a lot of tossing and turning, and tend to sleep in a three-quarter prone position, rather than flat on your back.
I figure that it was the third worst night of sleep that I've ever had in my entire life. (The second worst was another sleep study that wasn't quite as involved.)
[1] - It's supposed to be a study of a number of different factors involved in sleep problems, and not just a reason for a sales pitch on a CPAP machine. I'll be interested to see if, in fact, they find some other medical problem with my sleep. However, I'm fairly sure that they're going to try and sell me a CPAP machine again, and I tend to tolerate CPAP machines about as well as I do sleep studies.
