{"id":13505,"date":"2012-02-15T20:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2016-09-17T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:39:56","slug":"a-welcome-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-welcome-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"A Welcome Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I was beginning to lose hope that I would have my health issues resolved by April, the phone rang this morning and it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13404\">sleep clinic<\/a>! They wanted to see me this afternoon! Needless to say, I shut down early; I didn&#8217;t want to miss my chance!<\/p>\n<p>The sleep clinic was like visiting a dentist&#8217;s office or an optometrist, a lovely and serene space where you are met on time instead of the outdated decor and long waiting times at a doctor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>I answered a brief questionnaire and this confirmed that going through some tests will be worth the exercise. I was taught how to use a device that I will sleep with tonight. It will monitor and record how I breathe throughout the night. I need to bring it back tomorrow and I will know within a week if I need a CPAP machine. I haven&#8217;t quite figured out yet how I&#8217;m going to finance such a purchase (short of actually financing it), but I&#8217;ll cross that bridge if and when I get there. It was just a relief to finally be sitting in a room with a sympathetic expert who doesn&#8217;t think I&#8217;m a hypochondriac.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, the long years of nighttime being a waste of my time could be drawing to a close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I was beginning to lose hope that I would have my health issues resolved by April, the phone rang this morning and it was the sleep clinic! They wanted to see me this afternoon! Needless to say, I shut down early; I didn&#8217;t want to miss my chance! The sleep clinic was like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}