Sleep Machine!!

Just about the only on-going, consistent issue Zach and I have had since we got married is sleeping. oh my gosh....SLEEPING.

Sometimes, a night in our house goes like this:
Get in bed
Aimee closes her eyes
Zach stays up for another 30 - 60 minutes so Aimee can fall asleep because she cant sleep when he's snoring.
Aimee falls asleep, hopefully. 
Zach goes to sleep.
Something wakes Aimee up. Aimee tries to fall back asleep but cant because of Zach's snoring.
Aimee lays there awake for a long time.
Aimee huffs and puffs and toss and turns loudly so Zach can't can hear.
Aimee shakes Zach. Zach keeps snoring.
Aimee finally exclaims "I can't sleep, I'm going in the other room"
Zach rolls over "I'll go"
Then Aimee and Zach sleep happily ever after....


HUGE problem! People need sleep! People ask "Do you have a new born baby?" Because we look that exhausted. "Nope, no baby, just sleep apnea..."

hah, I'm just joking. We've never been asked that. But, I wouldn't be surprised if we were!


So, after a year and six months of troubled sleeping, we recently took the plunge into getting Zach's horrible sleep checked out.


He got a referral from his doc for a sleep specialist. Went to the specialist, got a sleep study schedueld, did the sleep study in the lab, and then got the results.

That takes us to yesterday. One of the best days of our lives, thanks to Olympia Respratory Services.

They told us that the average person stops breathing up to 5 times an hour while sleeping. Zach? He stops breathing about 64 times an hour...1/2 of those times for more than 10 seconds!! Try holding your breath....I got to 13 seconds and gasped.


Crazy talk!! It was good news to our ears, though, because we finally knew what was wrong and could fix things! So basically, Zach was diagnosed with "severe sleep apnea disorder" and received an APAP sleeping machine. This makes it so he doesn't stop breathing AND stops snorning.

Wait, no snoring?!?

OH MY GOSH!

This is a dream come true. An answer to our prayers. A solution to our biggest problem!! Life changing. And I'm not exaggerating people!

Praise God for the medical care we have at our finger tips and for sleep machines. Two things receive a kiss goodnight now; Zach and the sleep machine.

I love sleep machines.