Quick update: Not dead

Happily I didn't freeze last night, though I can't say as much for Ellie New Cat. Poor girl kept trying to sleep on my bed, but I kicked her each time (not on purpose!). She bat-bat-batted my foot each time, then fled the bed.

I darned well hope I get heat back today. My apartment is really, really cold.

Sleep study is tonight! Eeek! But VERY HAPPILY I get to do it at home instead of sleeping there. I have an appointment today to pick up the equipment and learn how to use it, then use it tonight and drop it back tomorrow morning. Will take pictures if it's at all interesting! (This is my new icon for all things bariatric surgery-related. :D )

Also, I got my first Blue Apron box yesterday. (One of those services that sends you all the things you need to cook and directions on how.) The recipes are very long and I suspect I might not like any of them, but if not then hopefully next week will be better! I took pictures of all the stuff yesterday, but was so grumpy couldn't deal with editing them and writing up a post. When I cook the first meal, I will!

Happy Thing #13: I'm so behind on these! Alas it's not been a happy time this last, well, year. :P Anyway! The fanfic I'm reading makes me sooooo happy. Not only is it very well written, it does one of the things I really like: It doesn't rush! I'm about a book's worth into it (chapter 24 of 70-something), and the two main characters are barely friendly with each other. (In the canon one tried to kill the other, and the other tried to frame the first for a different murder -- total enemies!) I love it when enemies aren't in love by chapter two.

Happy Thing #14: They seem to have removed the candy bowls at work. They've been gone for a week now, so I kind of hope it's forever. On one hand, of course I love candy! Free and unlimited amounts! On the other, free and unlimited candy is hell on one's diet. I questioned adding this one as a happy thing, because it's sort of not happy too, but in the end I think I'm happier about it than unhappy. Yay not having to use my (very much lacking) willpower to resist free chocolate!

Sleep Study: Go!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I get to do this at home instead of having to sleep there (YAY). That will make a lot of difference. It also doesn't look as bad as it might have been.

I met with a tech today to learn how to do it.

1) I have never in my life met someone with worse breath. I swear to god, it must have been years since he last brushed his teeth. An hour after I left, I could still taste the smell. I was stuck in a tiny room with him (closet-sized office) for a half hour.
2) Very rarely I've seen medical people with very small visible tattoos. This guy had about a dozen visible ones. None awful, but none very good.

He showed me the instruction sheet and then walked me through how to do everything. He actually told me I was taking too many notes... What the heck? I don't want to have to do this a second time! There are a whole lot of things to attach, but I think once done (it takes 20-30 minutes to set up) it won't be too awful to sleep in.

I am worried about how clean the items are. They have to go against my bare skin and I suspect they don't clean it between uses... (Lots of canvas/cloth straps and stuff.)

Here's all the stuff. Forgive the unmade bed:


1, 6) Big straps, one goes around chest, one goes low on your stomach.
2) Hard to see, but two things you tape to your lower legs.
3) The recording device.
4) The clear tubing that you have to stick into your nose (Worst part!).
5) Clips to your finger (oxygen monitor).
7) Stuck to the center of your chest.
8) Electronic something, 1-7 feed into it, output to the recording thing.

I also have a form I have to fill out in the morning (need to look at it tonight still).

Tomorrow morning I have to drop the whole kit back to them, then in a few days I get the results.

Other than the tech, this all seemed really interesting. I just hope I can sleep tonight...