We FINALLY may have the answers
. Here is the sleep lab and blood work saga.
Dale was scheduled to be at the sleep lab on Monday evening by 5pm. He had to eat before arriving so I met him at the hospital and we went to McDonald's to eat. I blew my diet really bad by getting one of the new Angus burgers, don't waste your money, it tasted just like a quarter pounder. So anyway after eating we went to the hospital to get him signed in and then we headed to the sleep lab. We waited about 10 minutes and the tech came in and took Dale to his room. It was a nice corner room
. We got him settled in and I stayed with him for a while. I had to get home because I had to work Tuesday. Monday night was his monitoring night. He called and said they had all the leads on him and it was going to be lights out at 9pm.
Tuesday morning I called him after I got to work. He had seen the doctor and he was told that he stopped breathing 39 times an hour, I was really expecting it to be more. I walked over to the sleep lab around lunch to see him for a little while, but we were busy and it was again time for him to nap. After I got off work at 7pm I went back to the sleep lab and spent a little while there and it was C-PAP night for Dale. I left and came home with the peaceful belief this was all going to be over Wednesday. NOT
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On my way to work Wednesday morning Dale said he had not been able to sleep with the C-PAP because he felt like he was suffocating. He had them take it off him around midnight. You are kidding me right? Nope, they discharged Dale without the doctor so much as saying boo to him
. No C-PAP, no paper work, no NOTHING. I told Dale to go ahead and have the blood work done and we would see what to do about the sleep studies. He came over to the nursery after he left the sleep lab and I tried to make him understand that he would have to complete the study for them to know what settings he needed on the C-PAP. During the course of the blood work we went back to the sleep lab and talked to the doctor. He explained to Dale that he would have to complete the study. He also told Dale that the C-PAP would not kill him, but the apnea would. He told Dale they could give him something to relax him so he wouldn't panic when he woke. I asked the doctor when Dale could complete the study and if he would have to start over. He hemmed and hummed and then said Dale could stay again Wednesday night
and he could have a sleeping pill
. Dale finished the blood work and went to work. He was back at the sleep lab at 5pm. When I got off at 7:20pm I went over to the sleep lab and they had not even hooked him up to this leads yet
. OH NO did they not know he was going to finish up? After about 20 minutes the tech came in and took Dale to wire him up..........
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Did he make it?
YES,
. He took the sleeping pill and was able to sleep and they got the C-PAP settings complete and he is now the proud owner of a C-PAP machine
. I then had to call the doctor's office and get a Rx for sleeping pills for him, Dr Ledet's nurse Kathy called me back and she and I had a good laugh at Dale's expense......shhhhhhhhhh. She also gave me the results of the blood work......................and.................Dale has metabolic syndrome, which is another way of saying he is on his way to being diabetic. He is insulin resistant. That is why he keeps gaining weight. Metabolic syndrome will also cause sleep apnea. The answer is to put him on glucophage. SOOOOOOOOOOO, I think we may have the answer. Now I have to talk Dale into eating better. The Mediterranean diet is suppose to be very good for controlling metabolic syndrome and I think he would be willing to try it.
I want to say Thank you to everyone who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. God will show us the way if we just let him.
And thanks for coming over. 
. Doesn't our Jaguar look cool?
I was SOOOOOO Happy to watch football last night, I didn't care who was playing, I was watching FOOTBALL!!!
I'm from Louisiana remember that is why I fight with it all myself...
