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Last night the lightning and then the storms kept me up until well after 2 am....then a short nap before the day of doctors started.

First my sleep doctor. Well everything checks out. I have gone from stopping breathing...what was it like 69 times and hour while sleeping to 3.4 times per hour. My leak readings is in the moderate range which is when I move some times at night I may pull the mask to where it is not pushing all the air into my nasal passages and may be spilling over the side of my face. It was not the high end and to be expected with someone learning the mask. I got the low down on every 6 months get a new mask. A pat on the back for doing a great job and then ... we will see you in a year.

Yahoo. One down and all is well.

Mum and dad show up but no Great Dane. I was actually kinda looking forward to having Venus around but it would have made it hard for us to do some things over the course of the day as to leaving her in a strange place by herself is probably not the best of intentions.

So lunch, take my really powerful Xanax and off to see the wizard. The wizard of the open MRI that is. I have done the tube one and that put me over the edge....I literally tried to crawl out of that one and had to be talked down from the ledge. Now the first time I went into an open MRI in 2006 to have my brain scanned when I was having serious migraines I flipped. I was doing OK until they put that mask over my face....then I lost it. One word - claustrophobia.

I had to be seriously drugged up to have that done the next day. **an aside....funny I can hear my dad snoring and that is actually a beautiful sound** Then when I had the MRI done here when they found the strokes had happened I had been given I was given some serious tablets of Xanax from my doctor and had to take all 3 to make it through.

But you know today, well my parents were there which is always good grounding for me, and I only took the .5mg Xanax and it seemed OK. I think the repetitiveness of this, the fact that I have lost weight and no longer have my gut touching the top wall (I could only get it to brush it if I really took one of those fill every crevice of you body deep breaths) and I even opened my eyes. Plus the contrast stick went well. Last time I think the one guy stabbed me 9 times and then the contrast did not flow like they wanted. So maybe next week by Wednesday/Thursday I will get the results and well all we can do is learn and live....learn and live.

Peace