36 Hours

[poliphilo]

The night before last I kept waking up to discover I'd forgotten to breathe and needed to rectify the mistake pretty damn quick. Stupid old body.

Yesterday I spent in a reclining armchair watching stuff on TV. I watched Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix- a turbo-charged account of a leisurely novel- and the last three episodes of the BBC's new Torchwood series- which more than fulfilled the promise of the first two by turning all political and state-of-the-nationy. Russel T. Davies is a classic writer. He's produced a lot of tosh- much of it in the first two seasons of Torchwood- but when he gets things right he's outstanding.  Torchwood: Children of Men is a masterpiece- bitter, shaming, heartening, kinky, sentimental, morally challenging, subversive- also very exciting and funny.

 Last night I slept for 12 hours straight.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Have you though about having a sleep study done? It's a pain, but getting a CPAP machine has dramatically improved the quality of my life.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't. In fact it's not something I've ever considered before. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

If you could tell you stopped breathing while you sleep, you probably do it a lot more than you think. The risk of dying from this is quite high. When I had my sleep study done, I discovered that I stopped breathing several times an hour, for as long as a minute and a half!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Wow.

This has never happened to me before. I'm hoping it was aberration, brought on by the heavy cold I was suffering from.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

My sense is that you may have noticed it when you were sick, but that you probably still stop breathing during normal circumstances without noticing it. Most of the time people don't notice it--I certainly didn't realize that my problem was as serious as it was.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

How strange to have a condition like this and not be aware of it. I'm going to have to find out more.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I think that most people aren't aware of it. They are aware of snoring from time to time, or feeling tired during the day, but not of the actual apnea.