Rachel Stanton
A Local Business Opening at 11 p.m.: Fourteen Nights of Guelph Late-Night Delivery, Timed and Measured
The line outside the new cookie counter on Wyndham started forming at 10:40 p.m. on a Friday — a local business opening timed, deliberately, for the hour when most kitchens in this city are already…
When the Drug That Fixed Your Legs Starts Making Them Worse: Augmentation in Restless Legs Syndrome
You started pramipexole three years ago and the first month felt like a small miracle. The crawling stopped. You slept.
CPAP Alternatives: What the 50 Percent Number Actually Tells You
There is a number that quietly powers most of the searching people do after an apnea diagnosis, and it is roughly 50 percent.
CPAP Masks Compared: How to Read the Trade-Offs Nobody Explained to You
The number that should reframe this whole decision is 50 percent. That is roughly the share of prescribed CPAP users who, at the one-year mark, are no longer using the machine as directed — a figure…
CPAP vs APAP: A Sleep Apnea Treatment Tested for Sixty Nights, One Breath at a Time
I ran a fixed-pressure CPAP for thirty nights, then an auto-adjusting APAP for thirty more, on the same face, in the same bed, with the same nasal mask.
CPAP Therapy vs. BiPAP vs. PEEP: What the Words on Your Prescription Actually Mean
You come home from the sleep clinic with a folder. Inside are words that all seem to describe the same object: a machine that pushes air into your face while you sleep. CPAP. BiPAP. APAP.
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration: The Breathing That Rises, Falls, and Stops
The pulse oximeter clipped to my father's finger glowed a soft red all night, and around 2 a.m. I finally understood what the sleep clinic had tried to describe.
The 80% Nobody Warns You About: Sleep Apnea Misconceptions That Miss the People Who Have It
A frequently cited figure holds that roughly 80% of moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea in the United States goes undiagnosed.
Can You Actually Adapt to Shift Work? I Spent Three Rotations Trying to Find Out
Here is the question I actually wanted answered, the one I could never get a straight reply to from a manager or a forum: does your body ever adapt to shift work, or do you spend the whole time just…