[geeks] Amy and stuff...

[Geoff Reed]

 >Anyway.. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. They called it "severe". Normal
 >diagnosis.. Sleep apnea is when you have 4 to 7 "events" (obstruction of
 >breath, stopping of breath, etc) an hour. Insurance kicks in and pays for
 >treatment at 47 events/hour. They "clocked" me at 112/hour. I was getting
 >NO (none at all) REM sleep, and got down to 87% oxygen blood saturation 
(where
 >normal is 98% or so). This had been going on as long as I could remember, 
but
 >started getting extreme (the exhaustion) around 1998.


Mine isn't quite that bad, i think i was down to 90 or 91% blood o2 and 
~100 "incedents" an hour... I no longer remember it well.

       >On May 5th, the second set of test results came back from the labs. 
More
 >or less, they ruled out everything severe, and confirmed what the adult
 >nurse had suspected from ten seconds of looking at her and one line on a
 >medical chart - Amy had PCOS.

My wife also has PCOS :( it's not a fun thing, and it also makes it 
difficult if not impossible to have children :(

       >I've come to ask. Would anyone mind if Amy comes back on the geeks 
and/or
 >rescue mailing lists? I miss her commentary, and female point of view on
 >a lot of the things we talk about. I talk to her every day - but enjoyed
 >her being on the lists as well. I promise you that her blinding furious
 >anger is GONE now - she's a completely different person (and will freely
 >admit this to anyone who asks).

Heck, I think she should come back....