Been downhill but hoping to head back up! 4-17-15 Susan's Soul Shines Blog Post

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The above is the link for my current post from Friday, which I'll be shortening some, and the post has a special request if you'd please take a quick look at it IF you use my posts or read them at all, that is. I appreciate you taking a quick minute to help me out since I'm at a sort of a turning point with the site.

I mentioned recently that I've been having a lot of medical testing done, and I got overwhelmed by it and getting behind on things, not able to do all I wanted to and had to so since my pain makes me move slow as it is. My husband really picks up the load for me when I can't function well, he's too good to me! I've been having a lot of new health problems with my Pulmonary / Circulatory system, including severe edema so bad I could only wear 2 pairs of adjustable shoes and that's been a long time problem for me since having pre-eclampsia during my 1st pregnancy almost 40 yrs ago, I had extreme leg heaviness from the knees down and they looked sunburned on those days. I had even more muscle spasms than normal that I thought was just Fibro acting up, and I was losing too much sleep. I was able to just stop both of my inhalers as of last week, yayyy, but my oxygen level was getting too low during sleep and caused sleep apnea.

My husband was alarmed by my appearing to not be breathing or moving during sleep, and he kept at me to have it checked out. I avoided sleeping at times but would also at times not be able to sleep & often stayed up for 2 days with no sleep. That is NOT good for you! I got a CPAP machine that is not oxygen like I thought, thankfully it's just air to make you restart breathing right away when you stop, and to prevent it from happening.

In 2 nights of using it my moderate apnea went from stopping breathing 20 X per hour down to 6 one night and 4 the second night! So to avoid a possible heart attack when the heart beats too fast to restart breathing, I'll be wearing the mask and letting the machine help me get better in other ways too. I had no idea those little machines could even possibly help in so many things, I'm hoping to at least get some relief from the new problems that have piled up. The Fibro and osteoA pain make lying down painful and I'd be thrilled of my pain threshold could be stronger.

Enough about my miseries, have a great weekend and my blog post explains about the posts getting shorter to be more like most you see, so no big thing really but it will save me hours each week and I can still put out some good content! Thx for your constant support, we're all here for each other and that is a wonderful part of this group!!