Posted by Dinah on June 24, 2004, at 9:32:18
Well, it turns out it runs in my mother's family. Along with diabetes and familial tremor, and heaven only knows what else.
One uncle had spoken to me a week or so ago about his idiopathic hypersomnia. But in a family my mother's size, I figure every disease crops up here or there. But a second uncle called me last night at my mother's request to tell me that not only does he have a sleep disorder but that a fair number of my aunts/uncles and cousins are being treated for narcolepsy or related sleep disorders.
I still don't think I have narcolepsy, but with this additional information I don't feel quite as hideously embarassed to be taking up the sleep lab's time. So that's something, right?
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