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Man, I can so tell the difference when I haven't had a full night with my mask on. I was too congested last night (allergies kicked up by all the lingering fireworks smoke, I think) and I could only do a few hours before I had to claw the thing off my face and breathe through my mouth. I wake up, 7 hours of sleep, which is normally pretty good, and feeling like I'm under water. It absolutely amazes me that I spent so many years (probably 15, maybe more) waking up feeling like that every. single. day. I'm not surprised I was so useless for most of that time, and that I was so addicted to caffeine all through my first go at college. I really ache for all that lost time, now, but I'm hopeful that I'm finally on the road to recovery, even though full healing will probably still take some time.
I still have a lot of other things dragging me down, too, which are at various levels of treatment, but it really astonishes me how much of a difference this thing has made, in just over a year. I'm a total evangelist for it, now. Snore like a chainsaw, wake up groggy/headachy and sleepy all day? Get checked, man.
( Sabbatical day something something... 13? )
ETA: Woot! I just called the check-in line and they say I'm "permanently excluded." Somehow, I expected that. Answering "yes" to the questions about "have you or immediate family ever been a victim of a crime" and "have you or immediate family ever been party to civil suit" probably put me in the "only if we're in desperate need of jurors" pile.
I still have a lot of other things dragging me down, too, which are at various levels of treatment, but it really astonishes me how much of a difference this thing has made, in just over a year. I'm a total evangelist for it, now. Snore like a chainsaw, wake up groggy/headachy and sleepy all day? Get checked, man.
( Sabbatical day something something... 13? )
ETA: Woot! I just called the check-in line and they say I'm "permanently excluded." Somehow, I expected that. Answering "yes" to the questions about "have you or immediate family ever been a victim of a crime" and "have you or immediate family ever been party to civil suit" probably put me in the "only if we're in desperate need of jurors" pile.
