I just had one of these last night at the hospital. Strange experience.
First, by the time I was supposed to show up at the hospital, the only entrance was the ER. The sleep tech shows up (who reminded me of Alice from the Brady Bunch, was Alice in her 50s?), and I follow her down what seems an endless series of hallways to the bowels of the hospital. We haven't seen ANYONE after leaving the ER. This part of the building hasn't been renovated and looks terrible with old wallpaper, worn tiles on the floors, low ceilings, so visions of horror movies start going through my head.
Anyway, Alice shows me the room, which looks like a very small hotel room, and tells me to get comfortable and fill out the paperwork on the bed. I said, "Get comfortable, as in 'change into your sleeping clothes'?" She says, "Sure, I have to help the other patient, and then I'll be back" and leaves. I'm standing there thinking I'm going to get hit-on/raped by a 50-year-old woman for some sort of favor.
Thankfully, that never happened.
To make a long story longer, she did come back and start measuring my head (the one on my shoulders, thanks), and marking on it with a wax pencil which hurt like hell. Then she glued 8 electrodes to my head, and two to each leg (those hurt like hell when they were removed). Taped a microphone to my neck (which hurt like hell when removed too - pretty sure that one took some skin off), attached two bands around my chest and stomach (each with 2 sensors), attached another sensor to tell how I was laying on the bed, and an oxygen sensor to my finger. Oh yeah, the worst one came over the ears and under my nose. It had protrusions on top that irritated my nose, and protrusions on the bottom that extended over my mouth.
So with all these freaking wires and crap attached to me so I felt like Frankenstein's monster, I was supposed to go to sleep. After rolling around for an hour, I had her come back in there and turn the air down. I finally fell asleep, but that only lasted 4 hours.
I left about 5:30 this morning. The whole experience sucked. Even the TV only picked up about 2 channels clearly, the others were only watchable from a distance. And the channel with the olympics didn't work at all.
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First, by the time I was supposed to show up at the hospital, the only entrance was the ER. The sleep tech shows up (who reminded me of Alice from the Brady Bunch, was Alice in her 50s?), and I follow her down what seems an endless series of hallways to the bowels of the hospital. We haven't seen ANYONE after leaving the ER. This part of the building hasn't been renovated and looks terrible with old wallpaper, worn tiles on the floors, low ceilings, so visions of horror movies start going through my head.
Anyway, Alice shows me the room, which looks like a very small hotel room, and tells me to get comfortable and fill out the paperwork on the bed. I said, "Get comfortable, as in 'change into your sleeping clothes'?" She says, "Sure, I have to help the other patient, and then I'll be back" and leaves. I'm standing there thinking I'm going to get hit-on/raped by a 50-year-old woman for some sort of favor.
Thankfully, that never happened.
To make a long story longer, she did come back and start measuring my head (the one on my shoulders, thanks), and marking on it with a wax pencil which hurt like hell. Then she glued 8 electrodes to my head, and two to each leg (those hurt like hell when they were removed). Taped a microphone to my neck (which hurt like hell when removed too - pretty sure that one took some skin off), attached two bands around my chest and stomach (each with 2 sensors), attached another sensor to tell how I was laying on the bed, and an oxygen sensor to my finger. Oh yeah, the worst one came over the ears and under my nose. It had protrusions on top that irritated my nose, and protrusions on the bottom that extended over my mouth.
So with all these freaking wires and crap attached to me so I felt like Frankenstein's monster, I was supposed to go to sleep. After rolling around for an hour, I had her come back in there and turn the air down. I finally fell asleep, but that only lasted 4 hours.
I left about 5:30 this morning. The whole experience sucked. Even the TV only picked up about 2 channels clearly, the others were only watchable from a distance. And the channel with the olympics didn't work at all.
Have any of you had one of these studies? Share. Discuss. Go.
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