Posts by yangzhi
I Spent 30 Months in the Study. A Rainy Cabin Weekend Moved Me Back.
There is a particular kind of loneliness in sharing a house with someone you love and a wall you resent. I lived on both sides of that ...
I Started a 30-Day Return Clock. Then the Scorecard Started Arguing With Me.
I Started a 30-Day Return Clock. Then the Scorecard Started Arguing With Me.
When the anti-snoring device arrived, I did something I ha...
I Read 34 Anti-Snoring Device Logs Last Quarter. The Ones That Improved First Weren’t the Wearers.
Last month one of my patients emailed me a photograph instead of her nightly log. It was a sheet of paper that had been pushed under he...
Ten Weeks as a CPAP User Wearing an Anti-Snoring Device: The Night Log, the Scorecard, and the Bag It Now Lives In
I have slept with a CPAP machine for six years, which means I am the least likely person to write a nice review of an anti-snoring devi...
Six Weeks After Nose Surgery, My Anti-Snoring Device Sat in a Drawer: A Stage-by-Stage Verdict
For nineteen nights it sat in the drawer next to my sunglasses, still charged, still in its cloth bag, doing absolutely nothing. I had ...
A Letter to My Sister About Four Months of Wearing an Anti-Snoring Device
You asked me in the parking lot, engine running, sandwich still in the bag, whether the thing on my neck was worth it. I said "ask me i...
Ten Questions I Wrote Before Wearing an Anti-Snoring Device, and the Answers Twelve Weeks Later
On the first night I sat on the edge of the bed with the device still in its box, a bathroom scale under my heels, and the Notes app op...
I Wore an Anti-Snoring Device for a Full Year at Seventy-One: Twelve Months, Twelve Entries
My wife carried her pillow down the hall on a Tuesday last November and said she would come back when the noise stopped. No argument, n...
Two Snorers, One Bed: Three Months of Side-by-Side Anti-Snoring Device Notes
There are two anti-snoring devices on our nightstand now. One is mine. One is hers.I want to get the order of events right, because...
Weeks 9 to 13 With an Anti-Snoring Device: Two Sleeper Trains, One Failing Pad, and a Spreadsheet
I have never seen my brother-in-law wear his anti-snoring device. I have never been in the same house as him while he slept, never hear...