Jack of Harts

One of the tests I’ve done over the last couple weeks since being to the doctor for the first time in six years.  Also known as when I lost my health care plan due to the advent of a little known Democrat initiative generally known as Obamacare.  My old doctor has left to another clinic, and I was assigned a new Nurse Practitioner during that time.  She checked me up and ordered a lot of tests.  My earlier Stress Test was one of them.

So…another one was a sleep test.  They put a little sensor on my finger and I went to bed while it was monitoring my oxygen levels.  I talked to her yesterday and found out that…yeah…I have an abnormal sleep pattern.  Anybody who has ever spent time with me knows that I snore.  Heck, I have dual tone snore.  And the sensor picked up some crazy trends in my sleep pattern.  They don’t like you going under oxygen levels of 90% in the blood.  I was hitting levels in the 70% range.  And I went below 90% 39 time on average per hour.  They said that was like getting nudged every couple minutes.

So, my being tired and able to sleep anywhere, anytime, is probably not so much a good thing.  Lucky me.  Next week they’re going to rig me up with a full chest rig to do a more full test and then we’ll find out what they are going to prescribe me to deal with the issue.