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Day 74 - Globalization
Mar. 15th, 2011 05:54 pmSo. I had a really bad night last night. It seemed like everything wanted to pack it in at the same time. My blood pressure kept spiking which started to give me a low level migraine, among other things, and I had to up the pressure on my CPAC because my brain didn't seem to want to remind my lungs to breathe.
The breathing thing isn't not horribly uncommon for me. Usually if I have to stay in the hospital for anything over a few hours, the nurses always turn off my oxygen monitor because it pings constantly. Apparently, I breathe really really slowly. And the pinging is annoying. Yeah, let's turn off the machine that tells you whether I'm breathing or not. Our medical system at work.
Anyway, that's part of the reason for the machine; I tend to stop breathing when I'm asleep. I wake myself up, of course, but it's hard on the heart, so the machine is supposed to keep my airways open. Last night though, it was like my lungs were incredibly lazy. I'm beginning to wonder if they make pacemakers for lungs.
The whole point of this ramble is.. I have lots of friends all over the place and I sometimes find myself thinking, usually when I've been lying in emergency for a few days, what'd happen if something happened to me. I mean, my local friends would find out through the usual channels but for the other people, it'd be like I just stopped signing online and they'd never know. I've been thinking it might be something I should put down in a will, I guess. In the advent of death, please notify these people.
Yeah, morbid thoughts. But that's the kinda of things you think of at 4am when your body is staging a revolution.
The breathing thing isn't not horribly uncommon for me. Usually if I have to stay in the hospital for anything over a few hours, the nurses always turn off my oxygen monitor because it pings constantly. Apparently, I breathe really really slowly. And the pinging is annoying. Yeah, let's turn off the machine that tells you whether I'm breathing or not. Our medical system at work.
Anyway, that's part of the reason for the machine; I tend to stop breathing when I'm asleep. I wake myself up, of course, but it's hard on the heart, so the machine is supposed to keep my airways open. Last night though, it was like my lungs were incredibly lazy. I'm beginning to wonder if they make pacemakers for lungs.
The whole point of this ramble is.. I have lots of friends all over the place and I sometimes find myself thinking, usually when I've been lying in emergency for a few days, what'd happen if something happened to me. I mean, my local friends would find out through the usual channels but for the other people, it'd be like I just stopped signing online and they'd never know. I've been thinking it might be something I should put down in a will, I guess. In the advent of death, please notify these people.
Yeah, morbid thoughts. But that's the kinda of things you think of at 4am when your body is staging a revolution.
