 Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm just going to share with you some things that I've been enjoying Some things that have been helping out and the results of my sleep study test and before I get started with all that I want to share something with you I had a lot of questions on my last video About if I was going to buy the neck and decollete and hand mask and I'm not going to but for me This is what it's going to be good enough if I turn the mask on and put my hands right here Which you know, I'm not going to do it, but if I wanted to I know that it would help my hands Here's all the lights on the mask if I wanted to lie back and put this on my neck I know it would help my neck and the same thing about the chest I may have to reposition it, you know to hit all the spots But for me, this is good enough and I'll let you know if I ever decide to do anything But my face, but I am down to four days a week. I'm taking off Wednesdays So it's still working out real well and I am you going to change up my skin care a little bit But I'm still working on that. So I'm gonna go ahead and get started. I am not big at all on Instagram I do have an Instagram. It's Mary Ellen after six. I believe it is and I don't I've very seldom used it I have used it to put out some messages When I needed to and they were I just not very good at it But at the very top of Instagram, they had something I think called stories a little circles and I have been loving watching Laura Ray over 50 Dance on the beach with her husband. I They've been married 39 years and they are dancing on the beach and I am gonna put her Handle below. I don't know how to link to Instagram But it is definitely worth your time if you if you want something that just makes you smile I'll give you just a tiny taste There you go. There's there's Laura Ray dancing and her husband's gonna be joining her in just a second And they truly are a joy to watch. I would play the music But I would get a big old strike funny story You never know who's watching you or who's gonna be watching you But one time when I was talking about my daughter and son-in-law's new kitchen I was mentioning about how she liked her air fryer and How like how she cooked for so many people well Her husband was watching that day and he said you tell your mom that I do a whole lot of the cooking and he does So I thought that was funny. My son Jeremy's youngest son is finishing his senior year And I watched him play football all fall online and I've been able to watch him Play basketball when it's live streamed and I have loved every single minute of it I told him he's the only person that keeps me up past seven o'clock. I Have very few things. I think I've got four things that I'm gonna talk about that I bought and they're very practical things and one of them is a food and it is onion and bell pepper and It's frozen. I like when I do stir-frying things like that I want my vegetables a little crisp, but Jim doesn't but when I do onlets I like to have them a little bit softer This has made omelette Making so easy, you know, I'm a slacker and when Jim wants an omelette All I have to do is put a little butter in the pan put some of these frozen peppers. I don't have to chop I don't have to clean it's just so easy to do and I can whip up an omelette in five minutes So these have been very very helpful. I bought them on a whim and I've repurchased them That's how much I like them. Those who've been with me a while Remember when I suffered from cold feet and cold hands. It was a medication that I was on and My feet were so cold. That's when I started buying Ugg shoes. I got boots. I have slippers. I absolutely love them Even though my feet aren't as cold as they used to be. I just really love the Uggs Well, I have a pair of boots that aren't Uggs. They're like house shoe boots And they just weren't getting it and I looked online to see if I could buy an Ugg insole and you can They're like $20. I got these from amazon and they're wonderful I had to trim just a little bit off so it would go right down into the shoe But my shoes are a size 10 and these are a size 10 As long as you have the room for the thickness And I did I just absolutely one of my favorites Okay, this is my long story and I'll I'll put a little thing when this is over I have known for quite some time that I've had sleep disturbances That I probably have at sleep apnea But I didn't want to go in and have a sleep study test So I kept putting it off and putting it off and putting it off I wear my apple watch to bed and I also wear a Fitbit when I sleep So I know exactly what my sleep looks like. I can compare both of them And I and I knew I was having problems. Of course. I did everything I was supposed to do I don't eat after like three o'clock in the afternoon There's just a lot of things that I don't do that. I that I thought would help me I tried the sleeping glow pillow because I thought the way your head could go back That would help but I it was never ever comfortable for me at all So I thought well, I'm going to get some of these X's I don't know if you'll be able to see them or not But what you do you put them on your mouth from here to here And it makes you breathe through your nose So I tried that it didn't work But the good thing the brand that I bought they I think they were $10 for $97 or $9.99 They did not disturb my skin and make it red I've tried other things on my face like those Years ago. I've tried those things for a year 11's Oh, it made my skin so red. It wasn't worth it. So I thought well, I'll try these and and they did work But it did not help my sleep The next thing I did was I bought a wedge pillow and I'm very pleased with this And it was recommended to do a seven and a half inch lift Well, I ordered it it was $35 and I've been really pleased with it the first thing I did I took the cover off and I washed it and I hung it to dry and I really can't show you much of it But this much of it is memory foam And here is and this opens up and it's really and it's easy to put the case back on I wash everything before I Even a washcloth before I put I just wash it because you never know what's been on it This looks horrible, but this is what I put on and I put a little half pillow And I just put it on right there and that way I still have my silk and it just raises my neck just enough But it didn't I thought maybe it would cure what I believe to be sleep apnea Well, lo and behold, I had him I had an appointment with my cardiologist And he said I really think you need to have a sleep study and I was thinking well Okay, I'll do that. I did not know you could do him at home So I was given the choice. Do I want to drive an hour and spend the night at a facility? Or do I want to do the at-home test for two nights? And I did the at-home test for two nights You could wear this ring on on your thumb or on your finger And yes, I do have sleep apnea and I'm going to be getting a CPAP machine So I'll let you know how that goes the next time I do a video a chatty video I'll probably be asking for suggestions if I need them because one of my viewers who's your mama She said she does the four seven eight and I tried it. I don't have trouble getting to sleep. It's waking up Oh, so many times through the night. It's not even funny But if you have trouble going to sleep, this might help you She says you breathe in slowly in your through your nose for four seconds You hold it for seven seconds And you exhale for eight seconds and she said five or six times I think is what she said It relaxes her enough that she just goes to sleep. I wanted to share that with you Something else I want to share and again, you've got to do your research. I did my research and it paid off Mark Cuban has a pharmacy mark Cubans a billionaire And he wanted to help people that needed help with pharmaceuticals and it's only generic. There's nothing There's a huge list. Well, I take dophetalide And what I paid $477 for I got through Mark Cuban pharmacy It's called cost plus and I won't put a link but I'll put the information on the screen or below What you did what I did is I went in I looked at my medication And it told you what the price was so I printed The form I filled it out and what I when I went to my doctor I gave the nurse the form and just said check it out. See what you think And I got it for at $44. I I couldn't believe it. I still use my local pharmacy Not for an expensive drug like that. I mean it there's no middleman And it's all generic. So if that helps one of you I am happy because you know what? It makes me happy when I can help you because I know that there's so many problems out there I'm trying to get another discount code for you all And for me for for my friend one of the major online shops They contacted me and offered me a 15 discount and to give to my viewers And I'm trying to get it a little bit better. So if I get it, I'll put it I'll put it either the 15 discount code below Hopefully I'll get a higher one because I know the code works on the Revived at lash products and the hair enhancer and the brow from grande brow and grande lash I meant to tell you early on I do not have on any makeup any sunscreen any moisturizer I've still just been wearing my bare skin and I've been doing I've been happy with it And I'll tell you there's something I'm not liking and it just all depends on how you watch videos When I bring when I watch videos I either watch them from my tv Or from my laptop And when I bring it up all the people I'm subscribed to Are on the screen But they have shorts mixed in with all of them and I don't enjoy shorts You may but I don't enjoy them because of the way I watch them I mean you have to click on them And hide them if you don't want to watch them on your on my laptop and they're on my television also I love it that I can give the thumbs up though from the television. I just found that Probably about a month ago I I always would go back to my computer and look at my history And to make sure I gave somebody a thumbs up or left a comment Which I haven't been doing as well as I used to on the commenting, but I'm still there So you won't be seeing any shorts from me and I'm not going to be on tiktok and The only time I'd be on instagram I think would be if I need to get some information to you If you are still here, this is going to be a giveaway and because this is a giveaway I cannot reply to comments But as you know that have gone to older videos or what last week's video any video if you have a question You can go there if you have a comment whatever and you know, I'll get back to you And what I'm going to give away This is kind of a celebration giveaway I recently reached 35,000 subscribers I had been 34,000 For almost a year since march 2022 and I've really never been about big numbers You know, of course I what I look at the most or how many thumbs up and how many views and and and I've not been Concerned about my numbers. I don't want companies to send me things So my subscriber amount doesn't impress anybody and I will tell you I think you know this already, but I have never Purchased one subscriber or one view Couple of you have asked me about the thumbs down You can give a thumbs down, but nobody sees it. We have no control of The thumbs down it used to show all the time now they've done it. So no one sees it except for us But the thumbs up I have control of so so I won't ever turn my thumbs up button off because I appreciate every one of them And bk beauty that is the only person that I allow send me anything and all the rest of them go to my spam except for bk beauty Risa does makeup Did a line of false eyelashes and she did four different ones I'm going to go ahead and put them in here because She has four entirely different types of them and one of these days. I'm going to put when I get my glue I'm going to put them on and have you watch me, but I know I'm not going to use all of these But I wanted to congratulate risa. Here's a picture of risa right here And I want to congratulate lisa risa and lisa lisa j Owns bk beauty. So so I really have five different giveaways Last time when I gave away the bk beauty brushes, both of the winners got back to me Very quickly. I had some issues with going to the post office So I emailed bk beauty to see if I could buy another box And have have them send it to the uk for me And they said No, we'll we'll give them to you and we'll send them for you One of the things in my giveaway is going to be that core brush line. These are mine These brushes. These are my favorites. I just absolutely love anything that shape like that Just anything that shaped like that. I love everything about these brushes. There's five face brushes and four eyeshadow brushes So one person is going to win the brushes And then I'm getting since I have 3,500 subscribers. I'm going to give three $100 either e-gift cards or deposits into your PayPal account And then one $50 e-gift card or deposit into a PayPal account And how I always do it is I want you to write a sentence And the words are going to be brushes Or money Either one of those as the person's name comes up on random comment picker The first person will get what they mentioned first So if somebody wanted the brushes they use a word brush before the word money And if you'd rather have the money You say use the word money first and so as as they come up on random comment picker The first three people that have used the word money will get the hundred and the last one will get 50 Just I want to do it because I have 35,000 people 35,000 of you Press that button and wanted to subscribe to my channel and that that's That's really something there's no towns around us that have that many people in it And I always announce the winner in my next video is how that works and it it is all good. I appreciate you I Thank you for hitting the button to watch my video and I'll see you in my next one. Take care I never expected like basketball all on repertoire of either One it oh, I won't ever shut my thumbs up thumbs and I'll tell you something. I'm not pleased with And when I went to I don't like doing that