I cannot go to sleep tonight. It is 2:00 in the night, and I'm not working the graveyard shift. No, I haven't worked at all this week so my only reasons for being awake are too much coffee and tea, sleeping late, worried about seeing the doctor tomorrow.
I see the pulmonary doctor who specializes in sleep disorders. I already know from the sleep lab that I have serious sleep apnea, but I don't know what serious means. Then on Thursday I will be fitted for the CPAP, a device used to help you get more air at night so you breathe better. It's not so much seeing the doctor that is keeping me awake, but why it took the doctors so long to find out why I'm so tired all the time. I don't suppose that's a good attitude as no one really knows how long I've had sleep apnea. Besides I should just be grateful that now I may get some help.
I will write more about this tomorrow after I've seen the doctor. There's no point in me thinking some imaginary story that I stop breathing 30 times an hour during the night. I don't need to be thinking maybe there's nothing wrong, and they just want to sell me equipment. The sleep lab was $2600, and Medicare paid for it so the doctors had to come up with some sort of diagnosis. I'm not at all unique. I'm sure most people experience random thoughts like this before seeing the doctor about treatment for a health condition. For now I'm going to put those thoughts to rest so I can get some rest before my 10:00 appointment tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Snickerdoodles
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 6:40am ·
(These are our most favorite camp cookies!)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 cup shortening
Mixture for later
(2T. sugar & 2 tsp. cinnamon)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400°.
Cream shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs.
Sift flour with other dry ingredientsand add to mixture.
You may need to stir by hand as dough gets stiffer.
With your hands roll into balls smaller than a walnut.
Then gently roll each ball into
mixture of 2 T. sugar and 2 t. cinnamon.
Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
They spread out a lot on cookie sheet.
Bake until lightly browned, but still soft.
You can't tell they're done with a toothpick.
Cookies puff up at first, then flatten out.
Bake in 400° oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove quickly from cookie sheet
to cookie rack or they will stick to pan.
Makes about 5 dozen 2 inch cookies.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 cup shortening
Mixture for later
(2T. sugar & 2 tsp. cinnamon)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400°.
Cream shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs.
Sift flour with other dry ingredientsand add to mixture.
You may need to stir by hand as dough gets stiffer.
With your hands roll into balls smaller than a walnut.
Then gently roll each ball into
mixture of 2 T. sugar and 2 t. cinnamon.
Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
They spread out a lot on cookie sheet.
Bake until lightly browned, but still soft.
You can't tell they're done with a toothpick.
Cookies puff up at first, then flatten out.
Bake in 400° oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove quickly from cookie sheet
to cookie rack or they will stick to pan.
Makes about 5 dozen 2 inch cookies.
Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 5:52pm ·
Favorite and easiest camp recipe
Ingredients:
Chocolate cake mix
Can of pumpkin
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350◦.
Spray cookie sheet with Pam or other butter spray.
Pour cakemix into large mixing bowl.
Open can of pumpkin and blend slowly with cakemix.
Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
Bake about 10 minutes at 350◦
Remove after about 30 seconds to cookie rack to cool.
Cookies will be soft and delicious.
I also tried making them, adding one egg, 1 T. brown sugar,
and about 1 tsp. cinnamon & 1/4 tsp. ginger to pumpkin
before mixing in cakemix. I ate two dozen trying to decide
if I could tell the difference.
Favorite and easiest camp recipe
Ingredients:
Chocolate cake mix
Can of pumpkin
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350◦.
Spray cookie sheet with Pam or other butter spray.
Pour cakemix into large mixing bowl.
Open can of pumpkin and blend slowly with cakemix.
Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
Bake about 10 minutes at 350◦
Remove after about 30 seconds to cookie rack to cool.
Cookies will be soft and delicious.
I also tried making them, adding one egg, 1 T. brown sugar,
and about 1 tsp. cinnamon & 1/4 tsp. ginger to pumpkin
before mixing in cakemix. I ate two dozen trying to decide
if I could tell the difference.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A Night of Insomnia
Actually it's preinsomnia because I haven't even been able to make an effort. I have this awful headache and I rarely ever have a headache. After doing so well eating proper foods and a little exercise out of frustration that I couldn't go to sleep I ate a couple of Popsicles. No doubt the aspartame stimulate the desire for my real favorites chocolate and/or peanuts. I justified some m&m's because I thought chocolate might alleviate this awful headache. By this point I was so off the diet that I also ate peanuts, justifying this because they have no cholesterol or salt and have lots of protein. I thought maybe I have a headache because I'm hungry.
The only thing that helped is I read Liz's blog so for about 30 minutes I was so engrossed in reading that I was distracted from the throbbing headache. As soon as I quit reading it was just ad bad as ever do off to the kitchen again, my own personal alchemy lab.
Bt this point I'm sure I must have a caffeine headache so I drink a little diet coke and come back and watch a bit of tv. The late rerun of the newshour on PBS is on. Again I'm distracted from myself as they talk about the news of the first day of the year. But then it occurs to me tv and especially news of terrorist attacks will not be a remedy for insomnia ory headache.
So I'm back toore research iny alchemy lab. How about Tylenol. I take two Tylenol then notice it's two years out-of-date. I give this very little thought because somewhere at some point iny life I read from a legitimate authority that the medicine may not be as strong but it doesn't go bad. Of course, I've heard all kinds of things to the contrary and that you should even throw out spices and fertilizer after the date on the package. At 4:00 in the morning I don't care. I take the only Tylenol in the house. (One should know better than to buy 2 bottles of 500 capsules from Sam' Club unless you are an emergency room.).
I return to bed knowing I'm not going to sleep so I turn tv back on, avoiding more news. I watch Martha Stewart. It's a rerun of her guest who started Twitter so he explains Twitter to her and the audience. For once I feel smarter than Martha Stewart; however, neither the Tylenol (which by the way is Sam's Club generic) nor Martha Stewart have helped my headache.
Finally I surrender to the inevitable. In that I have insomnia and a headache I make s pot of coffee and let the dog out. He'd been patient all night probably thinkin each time I got up it was to let him outside. So while the coffee brews he takes an outside break.
The sleep lab recommends no caffeine after about noon so I'll sleep well. I did that and now I am in the throws of a caffeine headache or a brain tumor.
The dog comes back in from the freezing cold after I bribe him with a cookie, and I take my coffee with me to bed. So I take a moment to write my research results on insomnia and headaches while I drink my coffee. As for outcome of caffeine on headache and insomnia, the headache is better but maybe that's because I'm distracted by writing instead of drinking the coffee.
The only thing that helped is I read Liz's blog so for about 30 minutes I was so engrossed in reading that I was distracted from the throbbing headache. As soon as I quit reading it was just ad bad as ever do off to the kitchen again, my own personal alchemy lab.
Bt this point I'm sure I must have a caffeine headache so I drink a little diet coke and come back and watch a bit of tv. The late rerun of the newshour on PBS is on. Again I'm distracted from myself as they talk about the news of the first day of the year. But then it occurs to me tv and especially news of terrorist attacks will not be a remedy for insomnia ory headache.
So I'm back toore research iny alchemy lab. How about Tylenol. I take two Tylenol then notice it's two years out-of-date. I give this very little thought because somewhere at some point iny life I read from a legitimate authority that the medicine may not be as strong but it doesn't go bad. Of course, I've heard all kinds of things to the contrary and that you should even throw out spices and fertilizer after the date on the package. At 4:00 in the morning I don't care. I take the only Tylenol in the house. (One should know better than to buy 2 bottles of 500 capsules from Sam' Club unless you are an emergency room.).
I return to bed knowing I'm not going to sleep so I turn tv back on, avoiding more news. I watch Martha Stewart. It's a rerun of her guest who started Twitter so he explains Twitter to her and the audience. For once I feel smarter than Martha Stewart; however, neither the Tylenol (which by the way is Sam's Club generic) nor Martha Stewart have helped my headache.
Finally I surrender to the inevitable. In that I have insomnia and a headache I make s pot of coffee and let the dog out. He'd been patient all night probably thinkin each time I got up it was to let him outside. So while the coffee brews he takes an outside break.
The sleep lab recommends no caffeine after about noon so I'll sleep well. I did that and now I am in the throws of a caffeine headache or a brain tumor.
The dog comes back in from the freezing cold after I bribe him with a cookie, and I take my coffee with me to bed. So I take a moment to write my research results on insomnia and headaches while I drink my coffee. As for outcome of caffeine on headache and insomnia, the headache is better but maybe that's because I'm distracted by writing instead of drinking the coffee.
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