Life as a Leach

We got the results from Abby's recent sleep study back yesterday, and we got fantastic news!  She NO LONGER has obstructive sleep apnea!!! The results of her last sleep study, done a little over a year ago, showed that she had severe obstructive sleep apnea (15 episodes an hour!)  Her jaw distraction did its job and fixed the problem!  That surgery was NO JOKE, so we are very happy with the results.  It would have been awful if she had gone through all of that agony without any improvement.  But it worked!!!  Yippee!!!  So thankful to God for this gift! Hopefully, this will make Abby's recovery from surgeries much easier.  We'll see in 10 days! By the way:  sorry about the weird post this morning.  My account apparently got hacked, but I changed passwords and deleted the post.  Hopefully, that will take care of it!

Pictures from the sleep study! Abby was really great about getting everything set up so she could "sleep," and she didn't fuss at all over all of the stuff on her. In fact, she even wanted to take pictures with my phone! The last step in the long set-up process was putting in a nasal cannula to measure CO2 levels as she slept.  Abby absolutely HATED this!  After Abby tore it off several times, I had to hold Abby down while the tech taped it to her face.  She was so mad at me! She eventually cried herself to sleep settled down and fell asleep.  She snored all night and coughed quite a bit.  I don't really know if the snoring is normal for her, because we all sleep with air purifiers that drown out that noise.  But we'll see what they say.