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I just wanted to let you know about a radio documentary that I was involved in on the topic of sleep apnea. It's called 'Deadly Sleeper' and you can listen online - http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/radio-documentary-sleep-apnoea.html
Kind regards,
Sarah Blake
Deadly Sleeper
Ray is 54 years old. He sleeps for six or seven hours a night. However, he still feels completely exhausted during the day and has to fight sleep constantly.
He dozes off on the bus on the way to work, sometimes missing his stop. He has trouble concentrating during the day and finds it difficult to stay awake at meetings. He worries that his work will suffer.
He nods off on the sofa after his dinner, and has been known to fall asleep in the middle of a conversation. What scares him most is the prospect of falling asleep at the wheel.
'It's like as if the system just shuts down and I have to go to sleep - I have no control over it at all. I know that it's coming, but there's nothing I can do about it. I can't stay awake for the life of me.'
Ray's daughter noticed that when he dozed off on the armchair, he would snore loudly, stop breathing and then start again with a big gasp. After looking up these symptoms on the internet and with some persuasion from his family, Ray realises that there could be more to the problem than just the tiredness.
We follow Ray to the sleep clinic in St. Joseph's Hospital in Raheny, where he undergoes a sleep study to determine what's happening to disturb his sleep during the night.
Ray is diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), but the results are more frightening than he expects. He discovers that he stops breathing on average twenty-six times per hour during the night. If his condition goes untreated, the consequences could be fatal.
We meet Ray's family, track his path to recovery and hear about the dramatic changes that a good night's sleep brings to his life.
Produced and narrated by Sarah Blake.
Kind regards,
Sarah Blake
Deadly Sleeper
Ray is 54 years old. He sleeps for six or seven hours a night. However, he still feels completely exhausted during the day and has to fight sleep constantly.
He dozes off on the bus on the way to work, sometimes missing his stop. He has trouble concentrating during the day and finds it difficult to stay awake at meetings. He worries that his work will suffer.
He nods off on the sofa after his dinner, and has been known to fall asleep in the middle of a conversation. What scares him most is the prospect of falling asleep at the wheel.
'It's like as if the system just shuts down and I have to go to sleep - I have no control over it at all. I know that it's coming, but there's nothing I can do about it. I can't stay awake for the life of me.'
Ray's daughter noticed that when he dozed off on the armchair, he would snore loudly, stop breathing and then start again with a big gasp. After looking up these symptoms on the internet and with some persuasion from his family, Ray realises that there could be more to the problem than just the tiredness.
We follow Ray to the sleep clinic in St. Joseph's Hospital in Raheny, where he undergoes a sleep study to determine what's happening to disturb his sleep during the night.
Ray is diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), but the results are more frightening than he expects. He discovers that he stops breathing on average twenty-six times per hour during the night. If his condition goes untreated, the consequences could be fatal.
We meet Ray's family, track his path to recovery and hear about the dramatic changes that a good night's sleep brings to his life.
Produced and narrated by Sarah Blake.
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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This is a very good thing that you are doing Sarah. How did this come about? Is the radio station sponsoring Ray's therapy?
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Blake on
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Hi Rock, thanks for taking the time to listen. The is a huge lack of awareness of Sleep Apnea in Ireland, so this was my motivation for making the documentary. I wanted to follow someone from the point of diagnosis to treatment so I got in touch with the Irish Sleep Apnea Trust to find somone who suspected that they had the condition but had not yet been treated. They put me in touch with the Sleep Clinic, who in turn approached Ray on my behalf (he had just been referred for a sleep study). The radio station did not sponsor Ray's therapy.
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Silly American always assuming that everything is about us. LOL, Somehow I missed the Ireland part of the set up. That is what I get for listening at 3 am. It all makes sense now. Good for you Sarah. I will be watching for more entries.
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