Arthur's Story: Chapter 1

Views Arthur's story from diagnosis to thriving while using the ResMed AirMini. 

In Arthur's case, snoring was a clear signal that he may be suffering from sleep apnea. Although an active individual, Arthur found himself needing to take naps around 3-4 in the afternoon which was taking a toll on his business and personal life. It wasn't until an accidental diagnosis that he realized he needed to do something.

Watch Arthur's Story below: 

Video Transcript:

Arthur's Wife: I definitely knew about the snoring yeah because you couldn't deny it.

Arthur: I just figured everybody snores, because when I was a kid I used to hear my dad snore right through the wall in my bedroom where I grew up.

Arthur's Wife: I used to wake up with Arthur gasping for breath and that was very disturbing because I wonder what else was going on and the impact on his health.

Arthur: So I do executive coaching, business development coaching, presentation coaching, sales training, I've been doing that for about 30 years now. I'm a fairly high energy person and I love the water and have scuba dived all over the world and we're in about 10 marathons, 15 half marathons but typically around 3, 4 in the afternoon I'd get real tired.

Arthur's Wife: We used to go out let's say have dinner at a friend's house and it was just a known fact that before dessert it's like "where is Arthur?" and he was missing from the table and he would be stretched out on a couch sleeping instead of participating in the dinner.

Arthur: I discovered that I had sleep apnea by accident. I had a hip surgery for my marathon and in the recovery room the people asked my wife if I had sleep apnea because it was taking a long time for me to come out of recovery and that's when I decided to get tested. I was diagnosed 40 events per hour, that's pretty bad so 40 times per hour I was not breathing which means my heart my organs my brain were getting no oxygen. Once I knew it was something that was treatable I was very open to use a machine or device and tried out for a night. It was immediate, I mean I woke up that morning knowing that I had a much deeper sleep.

What I do love about that AirSense 10 is it's really quiet. I use the MyAir app and what I love about it is, it really includes the ability to kind of gamify your sleep and keep score every night. 

I typically am out in town now every other week and I have been taking the AirSense 10 with me. It's much lighter than my old machine. I always wondered like wouldn't it be great if this was something I could just shove into my backpack.