Oh, Lands End. There are so many stores I want to shop at when I get down to the sizes they sell, and that's one of them.
When I was younger, both of my parents promised to give me money towards buying a new wardrobe if I just lost weight. I'm gonna take them up on it now, even though it's 20 years later!!
I had my sleep study last night. So frustrating to try and sleep in a strange bed with a damn uncomfortable mattress and pillows, with wires all over my body that I was constantly worried would be pulled out if I rolled over. I had the lights out at 11:00, didn't fall asleep until after midnight, woke up at 2:00 and stayed awake until around 2:45, and then woke up again at 4:00 to pee (didn't fall back to sleep for another 20-30 minutes), then was woken up by the tech at 6:30 when the study was over.
It looks like I do have apnea (not a big surprise), and she thinks they'll have me come in again to do another study, this time with the CPAP thing on my face for the entire night.
Yay.
Kathy, this whole thing is epic. I'm so excited for you.
You know, I always fail to understand how the setup for sleep studies tells anything about your regular sleep pattern. I know, cycles, blahblahblah, but the thing is? I ALWAYS sleep for shit (as in probably not ever falling fully asleep) the first couple nights in a new place. OTOH, if you want an example of disrupted sleep, guess it works?
Kathy, this whole thing is epic. I'm so excited for you.
Thanks! Even though I was Procastinate Girl for the first part of the year, I'm getting more excited to have it done as I get closer to getting it scheduled. Speaking of, I have to contact my PCP today and make sure she writes her Letter of Support and puts it in my file, and also see if I can schedule a blood draw for the last batch of tests. Then, I get to contact the surgeon's liaison and see if that's all I need to do to have her start the approval process with Blue Cross, so we can finally get the surgery scheduled.
sarameg, ITA. The two I have done have been utterly for shit. One, they let me take an ambien. They do shit to register anything about "normal" sleep patterns. Sleep study is a misnomer; they are apnea studies.
They tell a doctor jack-shit about your insomnia.
Speaking of insomnia...guess who got little to no sleep last night either? Ah, cruel life. The teensiest blessing is that I'm not going straight in to the office, but it's truly tiny.
Rat goes skittering down the alley and into someone's garage (shudder.) Did he notice it? NO. LOKI FAIL. Damnit. I kinda want to take my cats out to pee to deter the rodents
AIEEE. The WORST part of city living (that, and the crime). We have an awesome alley cat (the Mayor) who, I swear, has been basically single-handedly keeping the rat population on my block down. I've seen way fewer since he's been around. And he's a friendly guy.
Liese, I think veggies are generally hard on the tum, sometimes. And I know vitamins are! Have a nice piece of bread or some rice...
Yeah, I can see how girl pee might be generally less attracting to guys than steak. If it`s not, I don`t wanna know.
Depends on the guy!
Rats, yuck. You would think cats would keep them out of the house, at least....
I love my surgeon's liaison! I was just saying how I was going to call her this afternoon after contacting my PCP for her letter of support, and out of the blue, I get a phone call from her saying that they just got the psych eval results (definitely a candidate for bypass), and I told her about my sleep study last night. She reminded me about the PCP's letter and getting to a support group meeting, and then told me that if I could get the letter this week, she can start the insurance approval started before the weekend.
Yay!!
