Week 2, Day 5

sunday 25 january 2015

after that super saturday, sunday pretty much sucked. lots of fatigue, lots of trips to the bathroom, no desire to do much of anything but doze off.

distress started right before i turned out the lights saturday night. a metal pin holding two parts of my sleep apnea mask together had worked loose and i couldn't push it back into its hole. well, let's sleep without it for once. how bad could that be? pretty bad. instead of my customary two hours of sometimes deep dreaming sleep, then a wake-up call from my bladder, i was up every 45 minutes or so. about 5:30 a.m., i decided to take my chances and put the mask on anyway. almost immediately, my sinuses filled and i couldn't breathe. 

the short-sleep routine resumed without the mask and without much more nose-blowing until about 10 a.m., but i arose unrested, just obligated to pull things together before our furnace guy came at noon to fix our leaky humidifier. 

complicating that was a series of urgent bathroom visits which made me wonder if those subtle brazilian spices at the restaurant saturday night weren't so subtle after all.

after brunch, i was depleted. back to bed for some more short-term sleep until the hour approached to go to work, this time feeling vaguely revived. nevertheless, i fought an overwhelming urge to nod off from start to finish at the office and bailed out right after monitoring the 10 p.m. news. no matter what else i manage to accomplish tomorrow, it's going to include a call at the sleep apnea store.