Signing in on another horribly exhausting day with kickass fatigue. I slept super shitty last night but not because of the sensor. I don’t even notice the sensor is stuck to my chest. I just kept waking up. One time I woke up and had trouble falling back asleep. Twice I had to get up and pee. Then of course we had to play the stuffy nose game and I had to get up and put a nose strip on.

Why do I always have to be tired on appointment days? At least this time around, I can just lay back and relax when I get my teeth cleaned in a couple of hours. And hope I don’t have cavities of course.

So I saw the pulmonologist yesterday who never shut up and made it hard for me to insert questions in between his nonstop rambling. He’s going to order a CPAP for me, and soon, I will get fitted for it. I’m hoping to get a nose mask because that way I can still sleep on my stomach (I hope) and I seem to breathe mostly out of my nose when I sleep. Then I’ll have a follow-up with him, at which time he’ll certify it if it works out. If I can’t stand the thing, we’re out $100 but at least I tried. Personally, I don’t think I meant to ever get my energy back. I’m not kidding when I say I feel like something wants me to be tired so much of the time.

The sensor came with a really nice Samsung Galaxy phone that’s nicer and newer than mine that is the monitor. The kit came with a template you put around your neck so that you place the sensor exactly where it’s supposed to be. Hopefully, I got that right! I guess I did because, at nearly 5 this morning, I got a message saying that the ECG is now being monitored. We’re thinking it updates in increments.

The only annoyance is that I can’t go far from the phone. Sort of like being under house arrest where you have boundaries. LOL. Usually, when I go to the dentist, I just leave my purse with him in the waiting room but I’ll have to take it in with me.

There’s a thing where I can report an event if I experience a racy heart or palpitations, but of course I won’t now that the damn thing is on. I don’t think I ever go 5 to 7 days, though, without those “bubble hearts.”

Then it was off to play the bleeding crotch game. I pulled out a little streak of blood on the Replens applicator. Didn’t seem to be much of a struggle or resistance getting it up there, but there must have been as I could clearly tell I was cut by the way it burned. The gel in there made it burn. This has got to be the blood that showed up in my pee. I’ll take a break from the Replens for as long as I can to let things heal. I researched, and there’s nothing dangerous that could have popped up this fast that could bleed. Cuts are common with vaginal atrophy because the skin is thin and dry.