AmiSight 5/7: What Three Sleepless Nights Taught Me About My Blind Spots

My CPAP died this weekend. Not “acting up”... completely dead. And it took 72 hours to get it replaced.

I wasn’t prepared for how quickly things would unravel.

Within a day, I felt like I was falling apart. I was exhausted, foggy, and short-tempered. The simplest things felt harder than they should. I was just trying to get through the day, and not doing a very good job of it.

And then it hit me, this is how I used to feel all the time.

I remember how stubborn I was about it. I pushed back on my wife. I convinced myself my sleep apnea wasn’t that bad. I didn’t need a CPAP. I was fine. But really, I wasn’t fine.

Getting a CPAP didn’t just help, it genuinely changed my life. My energy came back. My clarity came back. I could think better, show up better, be better. But like a lot of things, once it became normal, I stopped appreciating just how big a change it really was.

Until this weekend. Losing it for 72 hours was a wake-up call in more ways than one. It made me wonder, what else am I wrong about right now? Where else am I being stubborn, or dismissing something that could actually make a meaningful difference in my life?

We all walk around with blind spots. The hard part is we don’t know where they are. But every once in a while, something like this forces you to see one clearly.

So I’m reminding myself: sometimes the biggest changes are things we already have, but forget to notice. I want to stay aware and keep asking where else I might be holding myself back without knowing it.

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