Since we’re on the subject of honoring our military....
With death, justice may be served (WW2 vet beaten, in coma 4 years, dies)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903037/posts
I noticed that DH was tired a lot but put it down to the fact that both of us had been run off our feet in the past year. He would sit down to watch a little TV and be out like a light. He put it down to years of Army training where you got what rest you could when you could.
I normally went to sleep before he did which is why it took me a bit to notice that he would routinely stop breathing in his sleep for a few seconds. After a couple of nights of listening closely I asked him if he had ever been checked for Sleep Apnea. He said no. I told him what I was seeing while he slept and that I thought that maybe he should bring it up to his doctor. He did and his doctor ordered a sleep test. Turned out that he would stop breathing on an average of 30 times an hour.
It was caught before it did serious damage and with the help of a breathing machine he is doing fine. In fact now that he is getting a good nights sleep he is doing better then fine.
:does happy dance:
His doctor says that this condition can be present if you are fat or thin. In good physical shape or not. The main indicator is if you snore although there are even some that don't even have that symptom. The up shot is that if you do snore or if you are continently tired or for sure if someone tells you that you stop breathing in your sleep, get tested. Sleep Apnea can do great physical and mental harm.
:Gets down off soap box.: