Oh Phil, I'm sorry that isn't fun at all.  Yuck


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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Sleep Study Number 2


> It was no fun and I slept worse than the first time.  I spent most of the
> night trying to learn how to breathe all over again and I don't even
breathe
> normally during the day, let alone at night with a mask over my nose.  I
> cannot sleep on my back at all but they want you to try for as long as you
> can.  Finally after two hours of being wide awake, I rolled over on my
side,
> dragging all the wires with me, and went to sleep.  At 2:15 in the
morning,
> she came in and awakened me and said I was breathing through my mouth so
she
> had to put a larger mask on me that would cover both my mouth and nose.
> Wonderful.  I think I must have fallen asleep by 3 o'clock again and
> awakened about 5:30 and shortly thereafter, they came in to get me up.  I
> felt as if somebody had beaten me with a baseball bat.  I spent most of
the
> night awake and struggling trying to control my breathing and struggling
to
> keep the mask in place so no air would escape around the mask itself.  I
> have no interest in going through that again.  If I end up with one at
home,
> I hope it is quieter, too.  This thing sounded like a small vacuum sweeper
> running all night and of course it changed sounds every time I breathed in
> and out.  They also taped me up with many more probes than the first time.
> My jaw line was covered with probes taped down and my forehead, too.  They
> also put three times the number of probes on my head in various places.
> Something that made the night even worse for me was a pulled muscle in my
> shoulder near the top of my spine.  It was in my lower neck, too.  I
pulled
> this muscle a couple of days ago and guess what position it hurt the most
> in?  Yep.  On my back.  I honestly, during those first two to three hours,
> called and asked the Lord to alert some of the echurch people to pray for
me
> because I was really struggling.  I do think if I had one at home, I could
> situate everything to the point it worked best for me but having 10 miles
of
> wiring taped down from head to toe and trying to move around like that
isn't
> the most comfortable way to sleep.  I must have done better with the
second
> mask that covered my nose and mouth because she told me, while putting it
on
> me, she would return several times to adjust the mask to fit me better
> throughout the rest of the night.  She never did return but I adjusted it
> myself many times through the night.
>
> Phil.
>
>