Today I am waiting. We have all waited. Despite how busy our lives are and how much we need to accomplish, we allow this to happen. My question is why has it become acceptable?
Why am I waiting? It's because someone is coming to my house between 11am and 1pm. They'll be here 30-45 minutes. In the meantime I'm waiting (and blogging).
Believe it or not, I have a lot of work to get done today. I have a lot of phone calls to make, yet dare not make them and need to cutoff a customer when this person arrives. I just think that would be inconsiderate to them. But isn't this waiting inconsiderate to me?
Of course there is good reason I choose to allow myself to wait. Today is the culmination of a promise I made to my wife and to myself. I'm about to disclose a dirty little secret... I SNORE!!!
Now, I've slept in the same room as myself for 36 years and have never heard myself snore. My wife and several friends we travel with say I snore very badly. It is to the point it interferes with my sleep and my wife's sleep. My New Year's resolution was to do something about it.
After a couple of referrals and doctor's appointments, I had a sleep study done about 4 weeks ago. It turns out I have severe sleep apnea. I stop breathing an average of 41 times an hour in my sleep. This is what killed the great Reggie White in his early 40's.
Today, between 11am and 1pm someone will be coming to my house to deliver and setup my sleep apnea machine. Though I'm not looking forward to sleeping with a mask on, the results should be:
1. I stop snoring which will allow my wife a full night's sleep.
2. I breathe normally throughout the entire night and wake feeling rested.
3. I greatly increase my odds of being alive when the alarm clock goes off in the morning.
With all of those benefits, it is worth the wait.
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