I've been up for two-and-a-half hours. Hard to sleep, not because of pain, but idleness, a week now of sitting and reclining. At night I strap on my cpap mask breathe in and out of the flexible tubing with the constant stream of air pushes through my nose and down my throat, opening up the lazy _______. It's not uncomfortable and even soothing, the muted sounds of my breathing and the machine's shore-like hollow response. It's all gentle, almost soothing, despite the tubing and the head straps and the two plastic "pillows" in my nostrils.
But it's not sleep inducing. It's just an adaptive apparatus, like my sling. So for a week I recline in the sofa, pull the blanket over my legs, prop up my left elbow with two real pillows, close my eyes, and wait to fall asleep while breathing rhythmically into a small nasal mask...
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