Thank you Lord!! Thank you Lord!! Thank you Lord!! My Christmas prayers have been answered !! Minus a small confirmation phone call from the Doctors office and the gathering of liquid assets equal to a brand new automobile to be able to pay for it, I received a telephone call from one of my Doctors yesterday giving me the scheduled surgery date of February 23rd, 2015 !!! This required the scheduling and coordination of two of the best surgeons in the world, one of them so good that he does take insurance payments, just cash in advance. As many of my dear friends know already, I havent slept well for well over 30 plus years. I have always felt lethargic, have no energy, cranky, moody, and literally have fallen asleep doing almost everything imaginable. As the past couple of years of constant Doctors visits have discovered, I have severe Sleep Apnea, bad enough that the Doctors have told me that if I dont do something to rectify it, I wont be with yall much longer. So, desiring to be a pain in your backside for as long as possible, I told both of them to Book It!! The procedure is called an MMA, short for Maxillomandibular Advancement, a procedure where the bottom jaw and top jaw are both cut away from the skull and slid forward by almost an inch and bolted back on to the face. if you have eaten already, and interested on how this happens, take a look at the youtube video as it explains it pretty well. https://youtube/watch?v=5RLUYeY3Hlo Most of you know that since my stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, my upper torso and especially my neck are pretty large in size with a 50 Inch Chest and at one point, a 26 inch neck, that being said, this created a scenario where my neck muscles have compressed my tongue and throat constricting my airway. Ive literally tried everything, including the CPAP machine, which actually makes me loose more sleep than I am already not getting. I currently wear a medical sensor that measures my sleep quality (Withings). Its quite unbelievable that I have lived this long. I am averaging just minutes a night in what they term as restful and restorative sleep. and being the kind of person that needs more proof to confirm the data that I have been getting, I asked Marcel Durocher Tomlin to wear the sensor to see what readings she gets. Well, the next morning after wearing the sensor and telling me that the previous nights sleep was the worst nights sleep that shes had in a long time (because I woke her up several times when I stopped breathing), I was quite astonished as to what the data showed. I would PAY for that kind of sleep that Marcel got that night. She showed better than 4 hours of deep sleep where I usually show just minutes. Well, besides some of the unattractive aspects of the upcoming procedure, like having to have my jaw wired shut for two months on a liquid only diet, and the requirement to have a tracheotomy (breathing through a hole in my neck) and not being able to go swimming or dunk myself under the water in the hot tub, and besides the huge financial obligation, having a good nights sleep will be worth it....Imagine me with the energy of two...!!! wow..!! But I know a lot of you will enjoy the time that my jaw is wired shut!! ;-)
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:28:43 +0000
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