23 June 2023
So on Tuesday, Joyce and I drove over to Kaiser's French campus and took the elevator up to the fourth floor where they are still practicing Covid prevention quite seriously.
Rene invited us in for a demonstration of how to wear a monitoring device to test for sleep apnea that night.
There's a little computer you clamp to your collar with two alligator clips before wrapping a cloth belt around your chest that keeps it close to your heart. There's another belt you wrap around your belly button, too.
They you put on another monitor like a watch which has a finger probe to measure oxygen levels. That didn't work because of her Raynaud's Syndrome and the cold weather, so he tried a small probe you wrap around the finger and that did register a result.
Put it on before 10 p.m. when it automatically starts and keep it on until 8 a.m. the next morning when it stops.
And off we went.
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SHE DIDN'T SLEEP all night. Really. I kept checking. She was still awake.
Around 6 a.m. she finally fell asleep, snoring, until 7:30 when she woke me up to tell me she had gone to sleep.
After 8 a.m., we packed up the monitors and later that morning I took the kit back to French with a note explaining she hadn't slept.
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THE NEXT DAY she got the results back. No sleep apnea.
Well, yeah, she didn't sleep. We already knew she doesn't have apnea when she's awake.
The lab test has a number of graphs to examine but I haven't had a chance yet to look it over.
But from my point of view the results are invalid because she didn't sleep.
And the whole thing is moot because she refuses to take the test again.
So there.