I haven’t been keeping up with the website at all. I’ve been all screwed up in the head. No one wants to know what is going on up in there. Not even me. I don’t have that luxury.
Melbourne again. I’m starting to make headway down here. I know the systems and can plug away at them. Only I seem to get all the circuits that have trouble. When I first came down here, I could rattle off 3 or 4 a day. Now I’m working on the same 5 since December. Oh well, that’s why I’m here; to find these problems before a tech is standing there waiting on us.
Here in the NOCC they have a projection TV on the front wall showing one of the 24hr. news channel. I’ve been watching the footage of the plane that exploded over Miami. It’s pretty creepy. I was just through there a bunch of times and on a small plane too. Could’ve been me. Wasn’t. That’s good enough for me. A few weeks ago Miami had a guy shot right off of the plane. He said he had a bomb and threatened everyone with it, the guy shot him. Good job everyone, back to work. Everyone wants to find excuses as to why he said it and try to make it “not his fault”. The family said he was depressed and off his meds. Who cares? I don’t care if it was an 82 year old senile pregnant woman with a hormonal imbalance. Shoot anyone that is trying to blow other people up. In fact, shoot anyone that tries to excuse these people afterwards.
The doctor just called to cancel my appointment to go over the data from my sleep test. A month or 2 ago, I went to the doctor because Teresa had strep throat and I started to feel it. My doctor started asking me questions about sore throats and snoring. She suggested I go in for a sleep test. A few weeks ago, I did.
On a Thursday night I drove home from Melbourne, changed clothes and headed to the hospital. The guy hooks all these pads and probes to me (not there thankfully) and said to relax, watch TV and buzz him when I am ready to go to sleep. The only thing on TV was American Idol or something just as agonizingly moronic so I went to sleep early that night.
I remember I was snoring because I had to sleep on my back. I couldn’t roll over like normal. About 3am the tech wakes me up and hooks up an air mask that covers my nose and mouth. I had to really fight off claustrophobia. I couldn’t breathe with this thing on and it was made to make my breathing easier? In the morning he told me that he was probably going to get into trouble for interrupting the test but he couldn’t watch me sleep any longer because I was in danger.
Normal people’s oxygen while awake and active is 97%
Most people sleep at around 94%
If you drop below 90% your brain wakes you up (not always consciously) and you breathe normal again until you fall back into deep sleep again and you drop below 90%. This happens all night and you always wake up tired. This was how he described sleep apnea to me.
He said the normal sleep apnea patient falls between 84-90%. He said I dropped to 52%. He made all kinds of calibrations, adjustments and such but I was dropping to 52 and it wasn’t an error. He was afraid I’d die so he woke me up and put that mask on me. I slept like a baby after that he said. Now they want to prescribe a machine/mask for me to use ALL the time. Not gonna happen. I’ll lose the weight, I’ll have the surgery, whatever but I’m not sleeping with any damn mask on my face. I can’t even sleep with the sheet over my face. Either my nose or my mouth must remain exposed when I sleep or I’ll freak out. Strange, but true.
Just got the word from Larry that Joe is going to Officer Candidate Training or whatever it was in “An Officer and a Gentleman”. They need me to re-assign to the INCO team for 2 months. Some Jacksonville jobs are coming up but there will be travel and I may be giving up the 3 day weekends. No worse than I’m working now but there is the chance I’ll be home a few weeks. The people here in Melbourne won’t be happy to hear it. Every time they get someone trained, they escape and someone new has to be trained all over again.
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