Close to Home by John McPherson for February 13, 2012

My wife did this. I slept like a log in our motor home.

SO true. I think he might actually be MISSING a few wires…

God forbid you have to go to the bathroom during the night, and wait ’til you try to wash the electrode stickum out of your hair!

put golf on the tv.

It took almost as long to wire me up as it did to slap a CPAP on me.About 65 minutes into it, I had “woken up” 56 times.

That guy won’t get any sleep; he’s too wired.

All comments are so true!!!

I tried several years ago and along about midnight I rang for the tech and made him unhook me, drove home, took a shower to wash all the goo out of my hair and went to bed. Never went back.

Absolutely dead on. Most miserable night of my life. How the heck can they learn anything when it is impossible to sleep?

I never woke up and they told me I had sleep apnea, what a crock.

My dad, generally a heavy sleeper, had a sleep study performed to attempt to determine the cause of some overheating issues. Even a champion sleeper like my father was hardly able to sleep through the night. I struggle to sleep if the top sheet is out-of-kilter; there’s no possible way I would be able to get a wink of sleep during a sleep study. I can’t imagine how they ever get any valuable information from them.

I read a review of a wrist-worn device that’s supposed to help you wake up when you’re most neurologically ready to wake up in the morning (sometimes less is more). The reviewer complained that the sheer 3/4-inch thickness of the device interfered.

Oh boy can I relate to this one. Been there done that. Did not sleep a wink!! Great cartoon, love it!!!

Home sleep study—lots easier to do, cheaper, too.

I use a CPAP and people ask me “How the hell do you sleep with that thing strapped to your face?” “Like a log,” I tell them. Seriously, it makes a huge difference.

Easier said than done!!

The nurse will wake him up later, to give him a sleeping pill.

That’s not too far off how it goes.