Sleep

 Another bad sleep last night! I have a CPAP machine and lately it's annoying me. I have sleep with it and I believe it does a great job when I tolerate it.

My sleeping problems do go back to when I was a school kid. The westerly winds would bring to pollens to town and it affected my sleep. I was first prescribed Ventolin when I worked at Bradmill Kotara when I was in my late teens. Everyone was being diagnosed with Asthma at this place and I believe Cotton has a connection. 

I had an injury in 1989 which put me on life support for 10 days. I had blood transfusions, a flail chest, a collapse lung, a broken fema, pneumonia, cerebral hypoxia and other unhealthy conditions. It took me 8 months to walk without a stick and I took lots of medications. Panadeine Forte was included!

Do you think I may have depression or PTSD?

I had a sleep study done nearly 20 years ago in Newcastle Hospital. It shows that I don't sleep at all on that night. They connected me with wires, masks and cameras to make it worse. I never forgot that day leaving the hospital and driving home to Smiths lake where I finally slept! That was a dangerous moment!

It was interesting in Hospital that everyone had worked shift work in their career. I spent 2 and a half years working Permanent Dog watch from 11 pm to 7 am before I joined the maritime industry in 1980. Then I spent 19 years on merchant ships going through roaring forties, fifties and Typhoons that sunk ships of the coast near Japan. 

I hate it when I can't sleep!

I had another sleep study a few years later in Coffs Harbour and I know I have Sleep Apnea. I did another sleep study at home when I shifted to Dubbo and I stopped breathing for about 50 seconds. 

I'm happy using Melatonin to help me get of to sleep. It is still a learning experience.

I still hate it when I can't sleep!!