"Welcome To My Hell" or UCLA: No Way!

Over the many years I have researched ways to fix sleep apnea:

• Lose weight (I'm thin enough)
  
• Have your uvula shaved down (My dad and neighbor did it, it doesn't work)
• Wear a CPAP machine (No one should have to endure that torture device. It makes my skin bloody, deforms my nose, dries out my throat etc.)
• Mouth Guard (Who wants to sleep with a chunk of plastic in mouth, damages teeth)
• Deviated septum surgery (Been there, done that, no avail)
• Sleep on side (Um, hello? Why can't I be free to sleep any way I want?)
• If the problem is in the throat it must be some words that need to be acknowledged and flushed down toilet (If only...)
• Spend 600 dollars at an Osteopath who can't treat it so finds digestion problems to treat instead.
• Special pillows (I don't think so)
• Tracheotomy (that's too extreme-even for me)

Ok so I investigated and I found this topic the same as hair growth and weight loss remedies: just a way for someone to make money off of us poor desperate souls.

So I researched specialists who could do a major chop and paste and open the airway in the throat. A combination of operations which has a 95 percent success rate. Mandibular advancement: Moving the jaws forward.

THE COST: Well I thought I would go to UCLA because of their reputation. To make a long story short it was a hell. I decided to let the resident (student) dentists do the work to save money. They would be overseen by the head of the oral surgery department. Unfortunately the administration had problems and strung me along with wrong phone numbers, unreturned calls, and insurance issues. I was ready to pay what ever and have whoever do what ever but they weren't. Every time I called was a disappointment. Even the head Oral Surgeon said "Welcome to my Hell!" (Not a good sign) Oh, then this one went on vacation, then that one, oh and wait a week for that one.

The last straw was a sleep study I had at UCLA on Feb 11,09. They put their sleep study department next to the elevator mechanism, so it sounded like a train/roller coaster was randomly going through the room all night. The nurse told me that everyone complains and I should too. Then she added that that used to be the children's wing and the children cried all night because of that horrible sound! See the photo above to see me the night of the ordeal.

In the mean time I've been having on going emails with the very internet savy Dr. Kasey Li. He is world renown and expensive. Who cares. I decided to stop this apnea at any cost. I decided I have "Infinite Abundance" and that I am worth the best. It was weird at first to think about flying to Palo Alto for a consultation but after I made up my mind, it seemed normal. People do it all the time. He looked at me, talked to me, answered questions and a date was planned: in a couple months. EASY and here I am now. 33 hours until surgery!