I went for my sleep-specialist appointment at
Sulis hospital, and we went
through a questionnaire, had height and weight measured, blood test taken, and they looked at my
throat and jaw and then gave me this bit of equipment for a home sleep study:
It's a single-use device that fits on the wrist like a watch and has a sensor for the finger, and a
sensor that fits below the 'sternal notch'. You install an app on your phone and the app collects
the data via Bluetooth and uploads it to the cloud.
I did that on Friday night, and hopefully I'll hear back before too long. On thing that happened is
that my phone automatically restarted in the night, which closed the app. In the morning I restarted
the app, and hopefully it synced up with the device without losing data.
I'll let you know what they say.
Following two nights with the CPAP machine, the watch said this morning:
Although I didn't feel that good today. The SpO2 graph had a few dips and the snoring time was low:
Deep sleep was good, so actually the thing that correlates with feeling better was lack of deep
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I hope you don't mind me going on about my sleep, but I do find it useful to set things down here.
Following on from my previous post, I tried using the CPAP machine last
night, and felt better today. The SpO2 graph was:
So not too different from 1st …
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I felt that there was something wrong with my sleep, so I bought a
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 to monitor myself.
I asked it to check for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, which it did over the previous two nights
(28th Feb and 1st March) and came back this morning saying that …
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Inspired by a recent BANES Liveable
Neighbourhoods workshop, here are
my four suggestions for minor changes that could greatly improve things for the walkers
and wheelers of Oldfield Park. The map images below are clickable, taking you to the
actual map.
Junction Of Oldfield Road And Wells Road
People walking …
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I became concerned that despite their appalling and illegal rule, failing to recognise
the de facto Taliban government of Afghanistan was doing more harm than good,
so I wrote to my MP, Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse:
From: Tony Locke
Sent: 7 February 2022 08:23
To: Office Of Wera Hobhouse …
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I seem to remember that these two quotes are from Daniel Ingram:
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If there's one thing guaranteed to make the heart sink it's someone saying to you,
'Let me tell you about my spiritual journey...'.
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There are all sorts of good ways of learning the dharma: books, teachers etc. the …
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