Story Time : "Younger Man" with Sleep Apnoea
Not dissimilar to the description J K Rowling gives to the character of Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter series, I am a "Big Beefy Man" with "not much neck". As a result last year it became blindingly obvious that my waist was expanding, I also personally noticed a drop in my day-time alertness. Initially I would like to point out that I have always been a night owl, and it was not uncommon for me to stay up late and get stuff done (especially programming things) and then sleep later. This fit well with my employment offering flexible start hours too, and so happily for very many years, I got slowly fatter and fatter, sitting down and eating too much, and I slept later and all was merry. Except, it wasn't... I suddenly noticed I had become extremely moody, irritable, bad tempered, my concentration was dropping and I found it nearly impossible to remember new things. Initially I bit back my bad temper, and to compensate I started to use a series of physical not...