Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 267 lbs.

I have some great news today! First of all, I have now slept the last two nights without my C-PAP machine, which has been extraordinarily liberating and awesome! As the mask had been wearing out, causing it to whistle, blow air into my eyeballs, and other annoying things, I have been struggling with it for a while now. Two nights ago I decided to see if I could remain alive in my sleep without it, and used Tom’s feedback about whether I was snorkeling and gasping for air or snoring or sputtering as a gauge to whether I can now possibly do without the mask. Tom swears that although I “snored just a little,” he didn’t hear me stop breathing like he used to, and that I didn’t even make those horrible strangulation sounds like I used to before being diagnosed with sleep apnea. And, I woke feeling well rested! (Poor Tom on the other hand got little sleep, as he kept waking to do his homework and make sure I was still alive and breathing every once in a while, as instructed!)

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