Help! I'm scheduled for a sleep study, and I have no idea what I'm getting into..... Mama says I snore. Period - case closed. Kids say it doesn't bother them, but then they don't have to sleep next to me, except for maybe after a bad dream or during a bad storm. In all honesty, I'm sure it's a problem for her, though I don't recall hearing any snoring. But the occasional gentle nudge, sometimes followed by a sharp elbow to my ribs or waking up in a sleeping bag in the wheelbarrow at the end of the driveway next to the street, tells me maybe it's true. I suppose that beats the middle of the street, or waking up with her straddle me with a pillow pressed to my face smothering the sound and the source.

Anyway, I am being proactive and doing something about it - of my own volition. I'm looking at a prescribed sleep study at a clinic this weekend. Does anybody out there have any firsthand experience with this? I'm kind of in the dark (no pun intended) here on this one. Hopefully i'll receive some instructions and guidance in the mail from these folks before my "sleepover"......

Otherwise, I will be compelled to just "wing it" and show up in my Spongebob Squarepants boxers with my buckwheat pillow and maybe a good book and a glass for the complimentary Chardonnay they surely serve......

All kidding aside, I suppose this is serious. My doctor tells me that it could have a seriously positive effect on my high blood pressure and being so tired

during the daytime.

Any insight on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I'll report back in a week and let you know how it went and what they thought of my "Spongebobs".