Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I feel a good night's sleep coming on

Tonight is my sleep study. I finally got around to reading the paperwork that came in the mail. Seems I should have opened it up before now because I was supposed to keep a 2 week diary of my sleep. Oops.

What's a girl to do? I made it up based on my wonderful memory. I'm sure it's at least 25% accurate. Then I read further and got to the part that tells what the test measures.

Brain Waves - sensors placed on scalp
Heart Beats - sensors placed on chest
Eye movements - sensors placed above & below the eyes
Muscle tension - sensors placed on the chin
Leg movements - sensors placed on lower legs
Airflow breathing - sensors placed beneath the nose
Chest breathing - sensors placed around the chest
Abdominal breathing - sensors placed on the abdomen
Blood Oxygen levels - a small sensor taped to your finger

Sounds like a fun time, huh? I'm sure all those sensors won't interfere with peaceful sleeping. Tomorrow morning will be the kids testing and then tomorrow night I have to keep Wes awake from 2 a.m. on for his EEG on Thursday morning.

If there are any night owls out there who want to try to keep both Wes and I awake Wednesday night, let me hear from you.......soon!