On a Monday night in December, Lauretta Martin, 47, visited the sleep lab at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. for the second time. On her first visit, Martin, a heavyset woman whose husband reports she is a loud snorer, was diagnosed with sleep apnea. This time, she was being fitted for a CPAP machine, which helps keep a snorer’s airway open throughout the night.
The sleep lab has six testing rooms, each of which looks just like a room at a Holiday Inn, with striped wallpaper, a floral bedspread, framed prints of the seaside and free wifi.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
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