From APAP to CPAP

[dewline]

Between the hip joint pain - I'm calling it that until my doctor(s) tell me otherwise - and getting used to the new mask - this one nose-and-mouth - and the other ongoing stresses, last night was somewhat more fraught. I think I'd almost gotten used to having the machine wake me up whenever I'd started mouth-breathing instead of nose-breathing. More incidents per hour than the average of the previous week - 3.5/hour as opposed to 0.5 - but better than the 80+/hour at the sleep clinic overnight test back in February.

Sitting posture's always been difficult to maintain, and now I think that lack of maintenance is something else I'm paying for.

Found a bunch of books I'd lost interest in and planned to yard-sale away whenever I could. Early Wild Cards books. A couple of DC graphic novels (JLA: A League of One and GL: Fear Itself), and community college textbooks dating back over thirty years. Also, my grad ring from my badly-endured and now non-existent high school. I can't remember what it cost my parents to pay for it, but it's a mixed blessing to still have it in hand. High school was Not Fun. What I managed to learn was in spite of a number of my classmates, and some of the staff were kinder than others.

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[agoodwinsmith]

I meant to say: my Mom's hip pain turned out to be because one leg is just smidgen shorter than the other. She has temporary lifts that go from shoe to shoe (one of each pair), snd she has also had permanent lifts installed in regularly worn shoes and house shoes. The lift is like 4 mms thick. Such a tiny amount makes such a huge difference.

The doctor said that the leg has probably always been shorter, and her muscles were strong enough to compensant, but after the surgery and chemo and blah de blah, she just no longer had the strength to do it all the time.

I hope your hip issue is similarly small and quick to solve. I tell you, after everything, this was like finding a small gold-wrapped chocolate on the pillow.

[dewline]

Hopefully, my issue is either easily solved or vanishes. Pain is manageable at the moment, but I really don't want it to go on for days.