My husband has sleep apnea. He has both central sleep apneas (CSA) and obstructive sleep apneas (OSA). When he had his sleep study done, it showed 95 apneas per hour that lasted roughly 20 seconds each. That means 95 times per hour he stopped breathing for 20 seconds. That is 1900 seconds without breathing. In every hour he was losing 31 minutes of air.

That seems like a lot to me.

You would think with all that going on, he would have noticed and gone to the doctor but we’d been married nearly 20 years then, so niggly little comments like, “You snore too much,” went unnoticed for a long period of time.

COUNTING THE SECONDS HE DIDN’T BREATHE

About 11 years ago I started to get really worried about his sleeping. I would lie awake most of the night not just with my own sleep issues – restless legs syndrome and severe insomnia – but listening with wide-eyed attentiveness to his lack of breathing.

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