Sleep Studies Suck Ass -- We'll talk baseball tomorrow

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So here is how my day has gone starting from last night.

I have been hounded repeatedly by the old cardiologist to get a bunch of tests.  Seriously the guy is about as obsessed with me as young girls are with bieber.  Every month he wants me in some office in philly, where there is no parking, and it takes forever to get there.  The guy is seriously killing me. 

I personally believe he is desparate need of a proctologist to remove his head from his rectum, because I am not a 90 year old lady with heart disease.  I've been trying to convince him that my heart attack was (all be it, my fault) just a product of my blood clotting issue...  Well anyways the guy has been on me about getting a sleep study.  Apparently sleep apnea can have adverse effects on the old ticker.

So I agree to go to this sleep study, which will require me to be at some hole in the wall facility (not a doctor's office, but a lab corp) at 8 pm and stay overnight.  I was a little off put by this and asked around for what to expect.  Everyone said it will include some wires getting attached to you and then they watch you sleep.  I'm thinking like in "House".... Oh hell no.

This place was a dungeon in the bottom of a 2 story office building which housed a weight watchers meeting and a labcorp, in a really shady part of North Philly.  I get greeted by a technician (she was very nice to me), but then it was all down hill.  The office didn't pay their cable bill (seriously, that isn't a joke) so there were no TV's, the place was freezing, the bed was something out of a horror movie, and to top it all off I had about 45 wires hooked up to me... but not with leads like they use in a hospital... no!  With medical tape and some kind of vasoline smeared all over my head.

To add a little to the mix there was a crazy ass old lady getting the study done and she was out of her mind trying to figur out the questionaire... screaming at the top of her lungs, "What the hell is a sedentary situation?!?".  I had to finally holler down the hall, "It's when you're sitting in a chair, or not moving!  Do you ever fall asleep in a chair when you're just sitting there?"  She yelled, "Yes!".  SoI yelled, "Then answer yes on the sheet!"      At least she yelled thanks back.

Anyways after all this non sense (PS it took over 1 and 1/2 hours to get the leads on cuz the place had faulty wires that wouldn't work) the tech says, "Ok, just sleep normal." 

I was thinking... "oh ya, cuz I often sleep on a bed from the red light district tangled up like I fell through the christmas lights on 'National Lampoons christmas vacation'.  Sure I'm on it."

This is actually what it looks like -------->

I told the girl to wake me up as soon as she had the info she needed.  At 4:30 she came in, woke me up, and I was out of that crack den.

Down side, I could not get back to sleep at the house.  Up side... I went for a nice 3 mile run before work.  Totally felt jazzed about that.  So all in all it was a good day.  I'm exhausted now and will probably hit the rack hard, but I got everything that needed to get done.

I am sure Dr. Giggles (cardiologist) will call and drive my hypochondriac ass into a psychotic break, but that is a challenge for another day...  Today I am finishing my tuna sandwich (healthy like you read about) and rocking out on the couch with Mr. Fenway.

Toodles America... Enjoy your Tuesday...