Coping With Everything

My coping skills are low these days. I'm prone to anger. Mentally, I tire easily. I'm not handling disappointment or the general insecurity of life very well.

So I go for a regularly scheduled visit to the sleep clinic, and they suggest that I need a new chin strap. According to their theory, my current chin strap is so old that it's not really keeping my mouth closed, which is why I'm getting additional air into my abdomen while I sleep. That also explains, according to them, my interrupted sleep and my mid-afternoon fatigue.

If all of that is true, it probably accounts for my irrascibility, too. Not only am I tired, I'm also tired of being so grouchy. I used to be a nice guy with a generally sunny disposition. I'd really like to find that guy again. Maybe I will, but after over four years of treatment for sleep apnea, I'm not getting my hopes up.