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I’m rubber, you’re glue
I never had headgear. I never had braces. I never had extreme acne. No, my Jr. High experience was flanked with sports and friends and the usual self consciousness. High school was a stable place with a boyfriend and good grades and more sports.
*Me in 1986. I got medals for showing up. BOOYAH.
God, I knew this would come back to bite me. I just didn’t know I’d be thirty-five.
Call me brace face, four eyes, Darth Vader. (I linked to that just in case you didn’t know who Darth Vader was. Then I realized fuck you, you know? If you don’t know who Darth Vader is, google it. Also, seriously? Where were you in 1979? Oh, not born yet? LIKELY EXCUSE.)
And you will because now? Now I get to sleep with fighter-pilot like gear on.
Oh sweet sweet Maverick-esque gear.
On the plus side, I’m having what the sleep study shows as “Rem Rebound.” Apparently my body is so excited to get to sleep that my dreams are vivid and constant. My body is plunging itself in to REM like it’s the missing opiate.
When I dream that Miranda Bailey is working at a coffee shop handing out pot while a dude in a thong rides roller blades, it’s proof that I’m really, truly, seriously on something. And it’s called Oxygen. Seriously.
So laugh all you want. Name call if you will. But dayam, people, I feel awake for the first time since 1991. Some of you weren’t even born then. But don’t tell me that.
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I am very jealous of your deep sleeping! I’m so tired….
And also, you make that mask look good!
You sexy thing. Now all the girls are gonna want one.
Um. Yeah. I WAS gestating in 1979, born just in the nick of time to have been BORN in 1979.
BUT I KNOW WHO DARTH VADER IS DAMMIT.
Al_Pal and I even saw Return of the Jedi in the theatre. Oh yes we did.
SO glad you are breathing! And sleeping! Tis the awesome!
I have to get braces. Which? Makes me hawtness on wheels at the ripe old age of 37 (almost 38). Yay us!
Yeah, my husband wears one of those bad boys.
My girls call it The Babe Magnet.
I call it Now I Can’t Hear You Snore So Works For Me.
Dude, if someone doesn’t know who Maverick and Goose are, they can google that too. Losers. (ha!)
I made a Goose reference the other day, and then realized half the people I was talking to were too young to get it. Sigh. Sweet dreams!
I literally haven’t slept well since 1991. I did try Ambien for the first time a couple days ago. I fell right asleep at 10:00 or then, then up like a shot at 3:15. Then dozed for another couple hours.
I’m considering a sleep test too. Did you actually feel like you fell asleep? I feel like I’d be so distracted by it all that I’d never go out. (holy crap, I just read that your bad sleep started in 1991 too. I was unemployed, and lived in an isolated area and was really low-key and quiet all day everyday for months. Then it would come time to go to bed at night, and I wouldn’t need sleep so I’d lay there all night, that was the start of my chronic insomnia. 1991. Weird.)
I had to go to drugs for my sleep issues so I am not sure which of us is worse. Darth Vader.
The other evening I was the designated driver on the way home. Hubby was in the passenger seat. I am changing lanes and ask, “Can I get over?” Hubby answers, “That’s a negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full” We both died laughing!
I hope you know that they make smaller masks than that! I’ve had a CPAP for a few years now, but only use it once in awhile. (Because I’m lazy and don’t like to clean it, fill it up with water - you know, hard stuff like that). You’d think that better sleep would trump laziness, but I guess not. At my annual doctor appointment yesterday my doc reminded me that sleep apnea inhibits weight loss. Now I’m tired AND fat. Great.
Hope you have good luck with the mask!
If you are getting good sleep, then that bad boy is worth it.
Oxygen rocks!