Continuing Saga of the Sleepless Man

I woke up around 1:00 am this morning and had to go to the bathroom. That's not a good sign. On the positive side, I don't recall waking up after that, so perhaps the rest of my sleep until 6:00 am went relatively well. Still, I didn't want to get up when the alarm went off this morning (at six), so I dozed in bed to the news for half an hour. That's not a good sign either as it indicates that I didn't get enough good sleep to feel rested and ready to go.

So, do I call the Sleep Clinic today and make an appointment or do I not? The only reason not to call is if I think (a) that the past two nights have been aberrations or (b) I believe my wife who thinks that I was awakened by her letting the dogs out or in some other external way.

I'll grant those arguments and say that I've been down this road often enough to know when some sort of adjustment needs to be made. So I'll call and see what comes of a quick visit in to the sleep doctor.

Meanwhile, I'm starting to give serious consideration to a tracheostomy. What research I've done indicates that it is the simplest and most effective surgical option. It just leaves me with a hole in my throat so I can breath with my mouth closed. Fair trade, it seems to me. We'll see what else I uncover in the near future.

Now that I've spent a few minutes writing this out, I have to say that I'm feeling tired. I'd like nothing more than to close my eyes and "rest" for a few minutes. It doesn't help that my eyes have been bothering me for a week now. The new lenses are an improvement, but they highlight to me the fact that we couldn't resolve my right eye to 20/20. I will be very interested in what the eye doctor has to say after next Tuesday's appointment. He's going to recheck the pressures and take another look at the blood vessels in the eye and probably give me a more definitive diagnosis.

Well, that's enough for the moment.