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[CindyinSD]

Oh whoops! thank you!! I couldn’t remember the name of it and I was like “CPAP doesn’t sound right... I feel like that’s the machine...” but couldn’t think of it maybe Shaw’s hubby and these other snorers need one

Yes, CPAP is the name of the machine. It increases the air pressure around your nose and (depending on the mask you choose) also the mouth. It makes it less likely you'll have those long intervals of "forgetting" to breathe. The anoxia (lack of oxygen) caused by sleep apnea (intervals of not breathing) can cause heart arrhythmias (unnatural rhythms that inefficiently pump blood), tiredness during the day, confusion (esp in older people)... all sorts of potentially serious health consequences. It is fully covered by medicare and covered under most* health plans.

*Unless you have $@#% Obama care (like me), in which case nothing short of absolute dire catastrophe is covered at all—and even then, not covered very well.

 

[RainbowHen]

. UPDATED...Today is day 90 something.
I can do it.



Me:

Congratulations! I just came up on my 1 year early this month. It's a great feeling. There are still cravings but they get easier and easier to ignore. I believe in you!

 

[Kiki]

Congratulations! I just came up on my 1 year early this month. It's a great feeling. There are still cravings but they get easier and easier to ignore. I believe in you!

Congratulations!

 

[Kiki]

It was nearly impossible to sleep when close enough to hear my father snore. The snores were very loud but the worst part was the dead silence when they were briefly interrupted. It was concerning enough that you would listen carefully while waiting for the snoring to resume so that you knew he was still breathing.

This is why people sleep in different rooms.
The snoring, choking, stop breathing and gasping ruins MY sleep.

 

[R2elk]

This is why people sleep in different rooms.
The snoring, choking, stop breathing and gasping ruins MY sleep.

No one has ever told me that I snore so I can neither confirm or deny whether or not I snore.

 

[aart]

No one has ever told me that I snore so I can neither confirm or deny whether or not I snore.

Same here....so we must not, eh?
Tree falls in the woods type scenario

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Oh whoops! thank you!! I couldn’t remember the name of it and I was like “CPAP doesn’t sound right... I feel like that’s the machine...” but couldn’t think of it maybe Shaw’s hubby and these other snorers need one

Yes..I'm sure he needs one.
But He's a stubborn old mule who won't go to the Dr or take good care of himself. I have already come to terms with the fact that I'm gonna be a widow some day.

 

[CindyinSD]

Same here....so we must not, eh?
Tree falls in the woods type scenario

This is a ritual argument my hubby and I have occasionally. I maintain that the sound is actuated when your otic receptors transfer the signals to your brain and your brain manifests it as sound. Otherwise there are only waves, imperceptible but real...(maybe?) Just not sound. The sound happens in your brain, or in the brain of some other hearing creature. God hears, of course, so... But my point is that it isn't sound until some living being interprets those wavelengths as sound. He just rolls his eyes and tells me I'm obviously wrong.

Ditto color. Also, with color, a red apple in the near dark (to your natural vision) is black. If you look at it via infrared, it is white. So what color IS it really? (And even if I see red, is the "red" MY brain gives ME the same as YOURS gives YOU? And how could we know?)

The color is in the light and it changes with the light. A red apple in daylight absorbs all light rays save the red range; those it reflects into your eyes (and elsewhere) and your brain subsequently interprets the apple as manifesting that particular collection of red variants. You however remember the apple as red—or you simply know what a red apple looks like in low light (as opposed to a yellow or a green apple)—and still think of the apple as red.

Which brings up another funny thing... All my youth and into my 30s my hair was blond but growing darker—until today it is a fairly dark brunette. Nevertheless when I look into the mirror I still see blond. And not because of wishful thinking. My mother was an especially beautiful woman with long dark wavy hair, so (unsurprisingly) I have always preferred that hair color. Now (in my 60s) I'm much closer to it, but my self image is still blond. Am I weird, or is it just me?

 

[CindyinSD]

Yes..I'm sure he needs one.
But He's a stubborn old mule who won't go to the Dr or take good care of himself. I have already come to terms with the fact that I'm gonna be a widow some day.

Yeah... what're ya gonna do? DH finally ended up with the CPAP machine because of a series of unignorable health problems. It was an attempt to treat a-fib that left him exhausted—which started prior to (possibly resulting from) a diagnosis of a fairly rare bone cancer. All treated (actually CURED) now (which is SO rare in the medical field). I don't often walk with him any longer because I can't keep up without hurting my right hip joint. Used to be he had to walk slowly and stop often. Now he has apparently lost the ability to walk (what he calls) slowly. I blame the dam CPAP for that, but at least he doesn't keep me awake with constant snoring & gasping.

The CPAP was not successful at normalizing the heart rhythm, but he feels so much better it's absolutely unreal. Also (completely unexpected) he sleeps all night now. He thought it was his prostate waking him, but apparently it was the anoxia waking him and the wakefulness sent him stumbling to the bathroom. I'm sold on the CPAP. It's made a huge difference in his life.

 

[R2elk]

This is a ritual argument my hubby and I have occasionally. I maintain that the sound is actuated when your otic receptors transfer the signals to your brain and your brain manifests it as sound. Otherwise there are only waves, imperceptible but real...(maybe?) Just not sound. The sound happens in your brain, or in the brain of some other hearing creature. God hears, of course, so... But my point is that it isn't sound until some living being interprets those wavelengths as sound. He just rolls his eyes and tells me I'm obviously wrong.

Ditto color. Also, with color, a red apple in the near dark (to your natural vision) is black. If you look at it via infrared, it is white. So what color IS it really? (And even if I see red, is the "red" MY brain gives ME the same as YOURS gives YOU? And how could we know?)

The color is in the light and it changes with the light. A red apple in daylight absorbs all light rays save the red range; those it reflects into your eyes (and elsewhere) and your brain subsequently interprets the apple as manifesting that particular collection of red variants. You however remember the apple as red—or you simply know what a red apple looks like in low light (as opposed to a yellow or a green apple)—and still think of the apple as red.

Which brings up another funny thing... All my youth and into my 30s my hair was blond but growing darker—until today it is a fairly dark brunette. Nevertheless when I look into the mirror I still see blond. And not because of wishful thinking. My mother was an especially beautiful woman with long dark wavy hair, so (unsurprisingly) I have always preferred that hair color. Now (in my 60s) I'm much closer to it, but my self image is still blond. Am I weird, or is it just me?

Perception is what perception is for each individual.

I have always said that there is no way that they can know what colors animals do and don't see. They make their assumptions on the components in the eyes. They have long claimed that animals cannot see fluorescent orange. I have seen proof that they can. I don't know what they actually see (neither does anyone else) but they definitely recognize it. Back east a neighbor had a dairy with a wood board fenced barnyard. From time to time, the cows would get out and get hit on the highway. At the time, the boards were white washed and it does not take much of an effort for a cow to push through 1" thick boards. He painted the fence fluorescent orange and the cows would not go near the fence..