Sleep Study Complete!

Last night I checked into the hospital.  No, it isn't as ominous as it might sound.  I was scheduled for a sleep study at Providence Hospital (one of the great hospitals in our Portland-metro area).  And, I am happy to report that I slept through the entire study!!

Before "hitting the sack" the technician attached about 25 sensors on my head, face, neck, abdomen, and legs.  I began to wonder if this was consistent with the Geneva Convention, but alas, there were no shocks administered.  They simply "read my mind" while I slept (and while I awoke a few times during the night).

They woke me up around 6:00am and began the eye-opening experience of "ripping" off each sensor one by one.  Though the technician was very careful and courteous, most of them came off the skin with a ripping sound -- not to mention what it felt like.  Fortunately, they placated me with a fresh cup of coffee.

Having had all the sensors taken off, I looked in the mirror.  Wow, I looked like a punk-rocker-wannabe.  They had marked my head with a colored pen and used a glue-like solution to make the sensors stick while I slept.  This made me look like a colored-hair hair-spiked something or other.

I cleaned up and left the hospital, and entered into a beautiful day outside!  It was a brisk 45 degrees when I got into the car and began to make my way east back to Gresham.  As I got closer to Gresham (the sun not having risen yet) I decided to drive to a couple of the look-out points along the Columbia River Gorge.  I sat and watched the sun rise over one of the mountain ridges while a fog bank crawled along one of the inlets of the river.

[The picture at right was taken with my cell-phone camera, so the low resolution just does not do the scene justice, but you get the idea.]

Surely the scriptures are true when they declare:

"This is the day the Lord has made;

We will rejoice and be glad in it."

~ Psalm 118:24 (NKJV)