This time a year ago I started having dental appointments to create a mandibular advancement device. I've always snored, or think I have and Sigrid assures me that there have been few and far between nights in our forty-three years plus of marriage when she hasn't had to jostle me to get me to change positions in the bed.
She assumes I'm dreaming I'm a motorcycle but the truth is I had very few memories of any dreams and actually had my pulmonary specialist tuck me into an overnight sleep study where we discovered I had horrible sleep apnea and restless legs (in my previous life I was a dancer, I suppose).
He had me visit a dentist who specializes in sleep disorders and she made me my very own device to shift my relaxed jaw so that I could better breathe and within days of getting it (after weeks and months of measuring and adjusting, and COVID precautioning and fighting with the insurance company) I just pop it into my mouth and turn out the lights and dream and dream and dream.
I'm not always snore-free but, Sigrid says, I'm better than I was. And after all, I'm only sleeping.
-bill kenny
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