Sleep Study Friday night

They wired me up, did a demo of the CPAP machine and turned my lights off. I had to call out to them for another blanket and some earplugs. Something in my room was squeaking. It felt weird having all kinds of wires taped and glued to me. Two women wired me. While one was glopping some weird glue onto the back of my head for EEG wires, the other was wiring up my face. She taped the wires to my neck and when I tried to straighten up my head after the one working on the back of my head finished, I couldn't. The face lady had to untape them and give me some wiggle room.

There were bands around my belly and my chest. There were wires taped to my legs. I wondered how I'd manage to sleep with all of the constrictive feelings but somehow I managed. I remember waking up twice. Once because I was thirsty and the next time was when I guess they were putting CPAPs on people. I didn't get one. I was disappointed and a little upset. They made me pay $240 up front. I thought my co-pay was supposed to be $60 maximum so I'm definitely going to talk to my insurance company about this. Come to think of it, I didn't get a receipt. Hmm...

6AM was wake up time for everyone. I guess it was good that I was tired enough to go to sleep earlier than usual. They unwired me and let me get dressed. The goop in my hair would have to be washed out in the shower at home. As I prepared to leave the head tech said they didn't put a CPAP on me because I didn't have any incidents in the first two hours. It didn't mean I didn't have apnea, it just meant I didn't have it at the start of my sleep. I could come back after I got my CPAP for a second study. Great. Another $240? I'm not going back until I have confirmation that I'm supposed to pay them that much. Grrr. The whole point of a split-night study was to save me having to go back and pay again! Why didn't they put the CPAP on me when I started having incidents?

It took me two thorough shampoos to remove the goop. Yeccch! The kitties were all very clingy when I got home. I got into my own bed and slept another four hours, Miss Cactus pressed into my side, but still have been exhausted all weekend. Cactus has been staying pressed up to me all night the last two nights. She doesn't like her mommy to go away!

Eric said I did stop breathing for a few seconds at a time after I got home and fell back asleep.

Baby Kitty update

She has become Eric's lap cat. He is very happy about that! She spent this afternoon draped across his chest sleeping. He fell asleep for a while, too. It was very sweet! When he'd stroke her, I'd hear her purring from several feet away.

He said last night she was sleeping on his left leg next to the arm rest when Loki came up to snuggle on the right. When they both realized the other was there, Eric was left with an empty lap. :(

It's so funny the way she's vocalizing. Instead of mewing or meowing, she has picked up Loki's annoyed chatter sound and she uses it for just about everything.

She has closed her door twice playing with the leather bootlace on her doorknob.

She discovered the cat tree today and also discovered that chasing her tail on top of it can lead to a scary fall. She's fine but was a little scared for a while. She was back to being Queen of the cat tree half an hour later.

She discovered plastic bags can become scary capes. For the record, I usually have them all put away. I forgot about the one I carried her stuff in from finickynarcane's house. I know it was that bag because it still had the box of Advantage inside. Poor baby! Again, she's fine. She needed comforting after that episode.

She's starting to follow the big kitties around and had the guts to grab Cactus's tail this afternoon. The snarl she received made her back off.

Scampi loves to watch her play. Baby is chasing her tail a lot while she plays along the bottom of our couch. She likes to dive partway under then pop out to attack that tail. She does flips, circles and somersaults trying to catch that tail that keeps wiggling so enticingly. It's so fun to watch!

Ah well, time to uncover her food and shut her in her room for the night.