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A toddler who can’t sleep undergoes risky, life-changing surgery. | Not long ago, saying goodnight to his mom and dad was nearly impossible for 3-year-old Rhett Lamb. In a case that baffled doctors, Rhett was awake nearly 24 hours a day. “His body would give out but his mind wouldn’t; he’d still be awake,” said Rhett’s mom, Shannon Lamb. “He’d still be alert. It was extremely scary.” One of the side effects of Rhett’s lack of sleep was bad behavior. “He was in a bad mood all the time,” Lamb said. “He couldn’t play, he didn’t interact with other children. His frustration level was so high, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. He couldn’t communicate with anyone. It was heartbreaking.” Rhett’s temper got so bad he would hit his mother, even giving her black eyes. “He would hit you, he would bite you, he would head butt you and anything else around him, and you didn’t know from one minute to the next what was going to happen,” she said. Rhett’s dad David Lamb said, “It was like he was losing his mind and there was nothing we could do to help him.” The Lambs, who live in St. Petersburg, Fla., arranged opposite work shifts so one of them could stay home and take care of Rhett. “You get to the point where you can’t function anymore and you can’t think straight, and you get up in the morning and you take a shower to go to work and you drive to work and you’re a robot,” Shannon Lamb said. “You are an absolute robot. And then you dread coming home ’cause you know …

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My second visit to the sleep center for additional diagnostics and a trial run with a CPAP mask, to hopefully stop me from ‘dying while I am dreaming.’

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What to expect at a sleep apnea study? This sleep study was shot at The Aviisha Medical Wellness Institute state-of-the-art sleep lab in Los Angeles, California.

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A before and after of my son sleeping with Obstructive Sleep apnea, and him sleeping after the surgery to correct it. The surgery for hum was a huge success.

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