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[spartanchick283]

so i thought that i had a week and a half off, and then monday at 8am i get a phone call saying that there's this lady that works in the sleep lab that wants some time off and wanted to know if i wanted to cover for her mid july and if i could come in this week for an orientation. so now i'm working in the sleep lab which is sooooooo cool cause i'm

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[anonymous]

man, im jealous...not even i have a tan and i'm in california for goodness sakes!

[angel_katie]

Oh my gosh Abbie, guess what? We just found out that Justin (my hubby) has sleep apnea! Last night he had his first sleep study with the CPAP machine and it really helped. The study they did without the mask showed that he had apnea (where he stopped breathing for at least 10 seconds) over FIFTY TIMES! I was freaking out! Pretty scary.. but at least there's a way to treat it! He should be getting his own machine pretty soon.

[spartanchick283]

yeah the first study done is called a cspg test also called a baseline test. they have some kind of index (i forget the exact name) and the number is usually around 50-70 which indicates the number of times the person woke up in an hour. but most of the time the person doesn't remember waking up that many times. the cpap machine that he was given provides positive pressure into his airways in order to force them open allowing oxygen to pass into his lungs and therefore letting him stay asleep. it's such a neat thing i'm really finding all of this very interesting. by the way, had an awesome chat with your dad at becky field's open house, and as a matter of fact i just came back from seeing the davinci code and thought of him, i think he wrote an article about the davinci code in the telegram but i forget exactly what it was about. anyway, hope all is well and justin is cured of his sleep apnea!!