Obstructive Sleep Apnea

I decided to look more into Sleep Apnea because of my past experience with someone with this condition. I didn't even know it was a condition or the name of it. The only thing that I knew was that it was very disturbing to me.
I was married to someone who snored a LOT! Oh my God!, I had to move him so he could stop, and most of the time I tried to go to sleep first so I could get some rest. I even got to the point where I kicked him and he fell off the bed. I felt really bad later but it was frustrating. Then I started to notice that he would stop breathing for a few seconds, and then it went to almost a minute. It was scary watching that, I had to shake him a little of move him to the side and then he stopped.
Now that I did some reading on this topic I understand it better, although, still can be scary to watch someone going through this.
As you can see from what I said earlier, sleep apnea is a chronic condition in which you have several pauses in breathing while you are at sleep. These pauses can last for several seconds to even minutes, and they may occur up to 30 times or more an hour. As a result you ended up having a poor night sleep, you feel tired during the day. The most common type of sleep apnea is called Obstructive Sleep Apnea, with this condition, the airway collapses or gets blocked during sleep, and this causes shallow breathing or breathing pauses.
Obstructive sleep apnea is more common in people who are overweight, although this can affect anyone, like children who have enlarged tonsil tissues in their throats.
The picture below shows how a normal airway looks like and the difference between that and someone with obstructive sleep apnea, it sounds complicated but is not actually if we look at the picture.

I also found a short video that will help get a  better idea of this chronic condition, and how  there is a treatment available so we can improve the life of people during the day when they need to feel rested.