Have you ever heard someone make the sound “zzz” when sleeping? And snoring…it’s more of a “haaaaa” said on the inhale and whatever noise happens after the tongue is sucked to the back of your throat. Yummy. Why the musings on snoring? BECAUSE I STILL SNORE. Okay I’m just frustrated and I’ll get over it. Court has been waking me up as of late and when he’s not waking me up saying “you’re breathing funny. You’re sleeping funny. You’re in a weird position” or “You’re snoring,” _I’M_ waking me up with a snort and a jolt and finding that every time this happens I am on my back. My co-worker suggested constructing a strip of tacks and affixing them point down on my spine so if I roll over…well, hopefully I don’t roll over. I think I’ll hold off on that one.
So why am, I snoring? I think it’s my girth. I have some poundage to lose post recovery…my favorite food to stuff into the little opening between my teeth for a long time was cake. Yeah, that’s right. Cake. Just add eggs, oil and milk to the stuff in the box, stir, bake and voila! cake! Nummy nummy. 
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So there it is, and while we’re on the topic of weirdities…why do I wake up 3-5 hours after I go to bed EVERY night? Doesn’t matter if I take a unisom or a nothing or an ativan… up up up…and not too happy about it. And when it comes to oh, say, 6am, I’m going to be tired and crash and when my alarm rings I am going to feel like crying.
I’ve been super sensitive to noises and smells as of late. So much so that I kind of spazzed out at work a couple times. How would you like to be locked in a small room with 4 other people crunching and munching on their crunchy and munchy food that crunched and munched and smelled like fish? So I kind of bolted from that meeting to commune with the um…porcelain pots in the ladies’ room. Next stop: satellite office located next to the gym. I swear someone was doing havy reps and just dropping the weights down in between: Lift drop lift drop lift drop. It sounded like someone bouncing a 500 lb basket ball. I can usually deal with the occasional dropping of weights (I squeak and feel ill and it goes away) but this just wouldn’t stop! Add on top of that an alarm going off somewhere in the building for 4 hours and I was like a bat with massively screwed up radar. I was bumping into walls and going bananas. I kind of filed a work request to get the alarm and the gym looked into, and promptly got reprimanded. Then I got reprimanded again the next day. And again a little later that day. Hey, as long as the reprimand doesn’t involve me sitting next to an alarm and a weight dropping dork, I’ll take it.
I’m sleep deprived. Or something.
Last night (should be tonight since I am officially not up yet so I refuse to call this today) CJ, Court, Sydney and I went to the Outback for a drink (or few) and appetizers. All was fine (in the way that waiting 30 minutes for said drinks is fine) and we were having a lovely time until…someone turned on the gas fire pit. And that gas fire pit emitted such a high pitched sound that I felt like slamming my hand on my head many times in a row to distract my brain. Court sent me to the bathroom so I could maybe get a change of scenery but there was high pitched stuff coming through the speakers in the ladies’ so I went back outside. Yeah. I’m a nut. My head hurts just thinking about it. So I’m gunna stop thinking about it.
First post in a month and it is evident, Dr. Li did not perform the lobotomy I was hoping for. I’m still neurotic. But tomorrow…er…today…ugh…in a few hours I will see the good Doctor and he will tell me why I am snorting and snoring and tell me to exercise my very painful jaws more…think pleasant happy thoughts. happy place. happy place.
So Shelby,
What did Dr Li say? What is up with the snorting and snoring again?
I feel so bad for you, that has so got to suck! I mean its bad enough to suffer through all this surgery crap, only to still be having issues when you sleep. As for the waking thing. I do that too! Like no matter what I do I can’t seem to sleep more then 4-5 hours without waking, then for whatever reason I have a hard time getting back to sleep again, until like right before the alarm goes off. Its a curse I tell you!
So anyway…..I’m interested in knowing what is going on with you so spill it girl! What did the doctor tell you???
Brandy
I figure that your throat is still swollen from the trauma of the surgery. Too early to draw conclusions. Wait for swelling to go down. I have had another operation, and was concerned about swelling. The doc told me that it take months for all the swelling to go down. He was right. A lot of MMA vets talk about the post-op period as a state of flux. Try to relax. It is going to be okay.