Thanks all for all the good information

[SleepySydney]

I normally lurk on this board and read about you all but I have to say Thanks as you all have made my life on my new Bi Pap machine much more better.
When I got it I thought there was no way in hell I was going to wear that thing every night. Now it been 60 days and and I hear it 8 + hours a night.
By reading the posts about DME's I knew what to look out for and I actually ended up getting a good one (so far). My doctor knows I read my data and in glad to answer questions.
I didn't get screwed real badly getting a machine, and mask, though they tried to stick it to my insurance company.
My AHI was over 100 drug my sleep study and now its under two most nights.

One question I do have though is why all the dogs for avitars ? I will work on mine if I can get a good pose.

Thanks again for all the good information.

[Emilia]

Dogs? Dogs????? I don't know about no Dogs....... Cats, on the other hand, are plentiful!

[Pugsy]

No dogs here..but deer babies.

When I joined the forum back in May 2009 almost everyone had a monkey avatar. Something about eating bananas help cure OSA or something like that and one thing lead to another....monkeys were everywhere.

[Beckah54]

I'm a dog lover so it just seemed fitting to use a picture of one of them as my avatar. Since I have four dogs, I can rotate them and give them all a little bit of fame on the internet.

(My daughter calls me "the crazy dog lady", lovingly, of course).

[BlackSpinner]

snakes here.

[ems]

snakes here.

Is THAT what that is?

[chunkyfrog]

I thought it was a Medusa costume.
Obliquely topical, too.

[Mr Bill]

I thought it was a Medusa costume.
Obliquely topical, too.

That started me coughing.
It could refer to the appearance of your significant other all masked up; a petrifying sight? Or it could be how you look when you wake up with your hose curled all around your neck.

[BlackSpinner]

I thought it was a Medusa costume.
Obliquely topical, too.

I never thought about the hose and snakes comparison. But you are right it is my latest Medusa doll.
Snakes ie hoses make you powerful?

[robysue]

I thought it was a Medusa costume.
Obliquely topical, too.

I never thought about the hose and snakes comparison.

My bipap is named Kaa after the boa constrictor in The Jungle Book. The hose reminded me (and still reminds me) of a large, stuffed toy snake to cuddle up to each night .....