Health updates

So a brief update into the health issues. I'm still using CPAP, and I'm feeling sooo much better. It wasn't nearly as quick as I would have liked, but I'm very thankful for my sleep gadget. After seriously analyzing my sleep history, I'm pretty convinced I've been suffering from sleep apnea for much of my adult life. I remember at around 18 yrs old a boyfriend complaining of my horrid loud snoring. I know that my whole life I've not been much of a sleeper, even as a kid I was up at the crack of dawn regardless of what time I went to sleep, and as a teenager would sometimes go days without sleep.

It's interesting what such a simple thing as good restful sleep can do for you. I find myself much clearer in my thinking these days, my memory has improved (although there is a block of time I don't have a lot of memory of, during my sickest time). I'm much more active than I have been in years keeping up my home and I even started a garden last spring, it wasn't a terribly successful garden and I didn't get everything done I planned to do, but it was definitely an improvement. I'm actually cooking healthy meals, and I'm able to spend more quality time with my family.

A real revelation came to me when I saw a picture of when we first got our dog Zoey, and how sickly and half dead I really looked then. It was a bit horrifying. I am definitely not the most photogenic person in the world, and when cameras are pointed at me I generally don't know quite what to do with my face and contort it in unnatural ways..the smile doesn't look right, the eyes too wild or something, but this was pretty telling, the dark circles under my eyes were very pronounced, my skin was almost gray. I'm certainly not any prettier in photos these days, but at least I don't look like I'm on death's doorstep.

The diabetes for the most part is under control, I've lost some weight not nearly as much as I need to but it's a start. Over all feeling much better!