Anna-lysing My Apnoea

My CPAP and Me

A blog by Anna Elizabeth Wakeman

Fighting with my CPAP
Anna Elizabeth Wakeman Anna Elizabeth Wakeman

Fighting with my CPAP

Sign this whole CPAP machine thing is working #1: I’ve had two nights without it and I feel like crap.

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Waiting... for My CPAP
Anna Elizabeth Wakeman Anna Elizabeth Wakeman

Waiting... for My CPAP

We share a grin. I wonder if she also has the same mental image I do right now, of me purposefully yeeting my CPAP off my balcony.

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It’s a Thursday Morning - A Sleep Apnoea Diagnosis
Anna Elizabeth Wakeman Anna Elizabeth Wakeman

It’s a Thursday Morning - A Sleep Apnoea Diagnosis

It’s a mix of obstructive (when my body causes an apnoea) and restrictive (when my brain does it on its own) sleep apnoea.

This happens to me, on average, 29.7 times an hour, for 30 seconds or more at a time.

I have no idea what a full night’s sleep actually feels like.

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