I went to Mayo Clinic again this week for a sleep test. I told the doctor that I'm waking up a lot at night and I don't know why. I ended up spending the night in the hotel-like room sleep lab which was only opened like 4 days prior to my night's stay. I was impressed. I slept better there than I do on a normal night, in my bed. Even though I was being videotapped and was hooked up to a number of monitoring devices. I only recall waking up when I was required to for the test.
After my night of monitored sleep the doctor told me that I'm waking up a lot, and he doesn't know why. The technical term for what I have is called AFNAR. An acroymym for the following: Awakenings For No Apparent Reason. This I found/find mildly amusing as it really tells me excatly what I told him.
The sleep study discovered however that whereas the average person in the sleep lab wakes up about 10 times and hour, I wake on average 25 times every hour. This I did not find so amusing. No wonder I'm tired all the time!!
The doc said that what I expereince during sleep is like responding to a snooze alarm every 2.5 minutes. So I conceeded to letting him perscribe a sleeping pill. I will use that tonight for the first time. Hopefully I'll sleep...for real.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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