{"id":32705,"date":"2011-05-14T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32705"},"modified":"2011-05-15T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:02:46","slug":"i-love-my-cpap-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32705","title":{"rendered":"I Love My CPAP Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than anything, I think my CPAP<\/a> machine has dramatically improved my life over the past three months.<\/p>\n

A doctor prescribed it to me to help with my sleep apnea<\/a> (which I only discovered at the end of 2010). <\/p>\n

I’m not conscious of getting more hours of sleep. I estimate I get about five hours a night (even though I am typically in bed for nine).<\/p>\n

I just know that I wake up feeling better. I used to wake up a lot with a headache from oxygen deprivation. That doesn’t happen any more, even when I have a lousy night’s sleep.<\/p>\n

I get up, I take my cold shower, and I go for my 30-minute walk and I’m ready to bench press my day. <\/p>\n

I feel like the world is opening up to me. After 23 years of restriction due to CFS<\/a>, I’m stepping outside of my old boundaries and resuming life. <\/p>\n

I want to get an MFA in writing. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Khunrum emails: “Tell us Luke…Do you remove your CPAP mask whilst engaging in boom boom or leave it on?”<\/p>\n

Bob emails: “Does this affect your cunnilingus technique?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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