In which he gets old

 Well, friends.  Today, I got a CPAP machine.  To help combat sleep apnea.  

Had a therapist show me how to use it.  

We'll see how well it took.

Especially considering I stopped at the grocery store for dinner fixings, and forgot to pick up the distilled water for the CPAP.  

We'll see.

Have I talked much on the blog about my visit to the hospital in 2022?

For a couple weeks in August of 2022, I was feeling extremely run down, and I wasn't sleeping well.  I had one particular night where I went into the store on about 2 hours sleep.  About that time, some light chest congestion popped up, and I decided to go see a doctor, to make sure I wasn't carrying around some bronchitis or Covid or some other bullshit.

Well, I was carrying some other bullshit.  My blood pressure was through the roof, and I was in AFib.  

I got to spend a couple nights in the hospital, get my blood pressure back down to normal.  I got to undergo a Cardioversion in the fall. 

It was scary.

We attempted to get a sleep study done that same fall, but my work insurance wouldn't cover it.

Since then, new insurance, and we got the sleep study done.  At home, which was a travesty in and of itself, and it involved our smoke alarm randomly going off at 4:15 in the morning of the second night.

So, it's come to my having a CPAP like many thousands if not millions of Americans.  To lessen the chances of my dying in my sleep.

Which is good.  

I guess I do need to go back out and find distilled water.