Early, Early morning Swim areobics

The clock read "6:10 am" when I had to make the decision. My first choice was roll over and go back to sleep and that made the most sense. The right choice was to swing my feet over the edge of the bed and see if my legs could hold the weight of my body this early. Once I knew that I was standing and could move I was moving in the direction of my swimming suit. To late to even turn the TV on for a check of the temperature, so to cold to go was not an option. Once out side I noticed it was not really cold. 

I arrived in the parking lot for the pool at 6:25 am. I live close.Once I am in the pool I am fine, the cool water wakes me up. I found that today I was better able to keep the the direction of up. Keeping my balance has been a real challenge. In the water it seems to be a bigger challenge.


When I got home and was getting dressed I put on a pair of pants that had been very snug. They were loose today, not the falling down loose but loose not the less. My efforts to be more active these last two months are paying off. I even put my pedometer on today.

I am doing so much better with my CPAP. Changing the air pressure was a help. I have had it on for as long as 6 hours. Once. I look at that as progress. Last night was 4 1/2 hours.


I did swim aerobics once last week and once this week. I have a real hard time getting out of the pool. I really enjoy it once I get in the pool. I am going to go tomorrow and see how I do again. I go at 6:30 am for one hour. That is so early and it is an out door pool. So it is not warm at that time. After a while I get used to it.

New pressure for my CPAP

July 6, 2012

I took my CPAP machine in today to have the pressure turned down from 11 to a 9. I feel like there is to much pressure when I breath out that is like someone holding something over my face. I feel like I am drowning. Many times, I would wake and find the mask off when I had no memory of taking it off. The sound from the air escaping from around the mask would wake me up. That would happen because my mask was not tight enough. If I have it so that it was any tighter, the mask would hurt my face and head. I was not having a good experience.

It is still going to take some time, however I now have hope that I can do this. I can’t imagine how much energy I will have once I sleep all night.