Severe Sleep Apnea
Amongst the aches and pains and other nuisances of being fragilely mortal , I recently got to add a new one: severe sleep apnea . This latest bad health adventure started about a month ago, when I became extremely dizzy while typing at one of my PCs. I had stupidly positioned this PC on a small " kiddie desk ", and thus had been hunched over it, day after day, for several months. My neck and upper back were getting stiffer and sorer, and finally one day had decided enough is enough, and rewarded my lack of self-care with a bad case of vertigo . Of course nausea accompanied this vertigo, (try not to feel sick to your stomach when it feels like the room is spinning around you!), so my wife was concerned that I may be having a stroke, as high blood pressure is another bad trait I possess. We took my blood pressure , and it was awful: 175/105, or something like that. Yikes! My wife immediately insisted that she drive me to a nearby medical clinic, and thus bega...