Well, I had my sleep study last night. It went much better than I anticipated, and although the tech that was there couldn’t really tell me anything, she said something that gave me hope that there was no apnea present. Still keeping my fingers crossed, though.

She and another lady who was in respiratory therapy but training to do sleep studies came in around 9:30 to hook me up to all those wires. There were 22 of them total! I told them that the whole getup would make a great Halloween costume. They laughed, but said that some people actually brought in a Nikon D90 or other fancy, expensive camera and had them take a picture with all that stuff on them. I considered asking them to snap one of me with my cell phone, but it’s not really something I felt inclined to capture for posterity.

I slept very well considering all those wires and being in a strange place. I only woke up 3 or 4 times, and I went right back to sleep. Then early this morning the tech came over the speaker and asked me to turn over on my back and try to sleep that way for a while. I obliged, but I didn’t do much sleeping after that. I just can’t sleep on my back. But at least I dozed a little, so hopefully that gave them the information they needed.

I got home a little before 7:00 this morning, and I put Pumpkin on the bus and turned on the computer. I planned on going ahead and getting to work after taking a shower to get all that sticky gunk out of my hair and off of my body, but I didn’t even make it to the shower. I ended up laying down, and I didn’t get back up until after 10:00. And I still feel like I didn’t sleep more than a couple of hours last night.

At least I’m a step closer now to finding out what’s keeping me tired all the time. Even if the sleep study reveals nothing out of the ordinary, we’ve ruled something out. And I’m going to make sure my doctor does everything she can to get it figured out. I’ve had enough of being too tired to get my work done and enjoy life.