Just trucking along

I'm glad to report that my wife will have a very Merry Christmas this year. Tests came back fine. Now she has a sleep study done on the 26th of this month. She had a consultation yesterday and they set up the study for her. Sounds like we will both be sleeping with a cpap machine. Will prove to be interesting when we go camping next summer. Try to sleep in a tent with 2 people wearing masks with a hose hooked up to them.
I strongly urge any drivers that are tired during the day even after getting lots of sleep the night before to go talk to your Dr about it. Getting diagnosed with sleep apnia is as easy as a sleep study.You spend one night in the hospital with a bunch of wires hooked up to you. If your breathing stops so many times an hour, they will wake you up and put a mask on you and then let you try to go back to sleep and they adjust the pressure until they feel it is right for your breathing. Then you will go home when you wake up. Once you get the machine you should notice a difference right away. My first few nights on the machine I kept waking up because I wasn't used to wearing it. But even with waking up during the night I still felt a whole lot better during the day. The trucking companies don't worry about it. As long as you pass the DOT physical the sleep disorder doesn't matter to them.

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