Last night, Jay had to go out of town. It wasn't a business trip, and it didn't sound like it was much fun...but it was necessary. He had an appointment at a sleep clinic to be tested to see if he has sleep apnea. I've been concerned about this for a while, since I noticed that he appears to stop breathing periodically during sleep. (That's the definition of sleep apnea).

So it was off the VA hospital northwest of the city for the night. He had a motel style room, with bath, and a technician to run the equipment while he slept. He told me it took 45 minutes for the elelctrodes and monitoring equipment to be attached, after he did some baseline measures for calibraiton of the equipment. He went to bed between 10:30 and 11 PM, and he told the technician when he was going to bed. The test began a few minutes after that, and ended at 6:30 AM, when the techician woke him to remove the electrodes.

Now, we have about a month to wait until the results are available; he is to phone for them in a month. All the techician would say this morning was that Jay moved a lot, and that the testing yielded "good data". Bottom line is, we're not sure what to think. I suppose we'll just have to wait.