So, Gary’s gone from using his Oxygen ring monitor to test the efficacy if different sleeping positions to simply sticking in denial gear. He’s landed on: “One of the three summaries it gives shows I’m in the green zone. No problem.”
So I offered myself up as a control. I could wear the ring to show him what a normal person’s numbers look like. If I came up short I would go to the hospital and get the test, and then that would shame him into doing the same.
At first I couldn’t sleep because the ring kept buzzing with ever-increasing desperation every time I started to drop off. “Oxygen is 80%!” After a few hours of that I marched out to tell Gary I was going to die, and he said the ring was just loose. Also, you can turn off the buzzing.
In the morning I was able to show him his report compared to mine.
His report – note his numbers tell one tale and his graph another.
Versus my report:
The numbers aren’t that different, especially if you ignore the ones you don’t like … but the graphs are.
He said he would go back to wearing the ring and tracking his different sleeping positions, so that’s a gear shift to a lower level of denial, anyway.