You Stopped Breathing In Your Sleep Two Million Times? Huh?

Rockin Mama · Post by **Rockin Mama** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:12 am

I am 27 i've snored since i was 2 or 3, so lets say at 18 is when my apnea started, dx'd at 112.6 events per hour... yeah im not even going to try to do the math LOL

roster · Post by **roster** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:59 pm

sagesteve wrote: .......I was an Olympic athlete. .........

Steve,

Interesting. Glad you can still calculate.

Dr. Steven Y. Park says it is common to find undiagnosed/untreated sleep apnea patients who are hard-driven athletes. He believes this is because the only time they are feeling good is when they are doing intensive exercise. (You probably know better that I do why that is.) So they have no problem putting in the hours because they know they will feel better when active than when sitting around.

Dr. Park suspects Michael Phelps has sleep apnea, not only because he is so hard-driven, but also because of his jaw structure. You may want to find Dr. Park's website for some good reading. He also has some good posts at sleepguide.com.

Regards,

Rooster

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:47 pm

Hey Arkangel, don't stop the humor! An occasional break from the serious side of this therapy is therapy in itself, so keep it coming.
Kathy

roster · Post by **roster** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:04 am

Hey Kathy,

Is it pretty cool being a rooster?

Rooster

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:05 am

Rooster - LOL. But the crowing rooster is not me, he goes with my latest signature line about wanting to be an early riser. I was playing around last week drawing cartoon birds, and out of curiosity (and boredom) I wanted to see how animation works so I stuck my rooster in the wizard. Quickly found I have no career in this, but hey, it was fun. He'll be gone soon. I'm already about over wanting to get up early.
Kathy

P.S. Maybe I should have done a hen laying a golden egg, since I sure would like to come into big money.

roster · Post by **roster** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:31 am

kteague wrote: ............My dream is to one day become an early riser again................

Kathy,

For a small monthly fee, I can arrange it.

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:06 am

Rooster - Thanks for your offer, but I'll keep my money and my sleep. You must have an endless rescource of funny rooster cartoons. By the way, I think the marketing firm that created the sleep med commercials with the rooster should win some kind of award. Their early teasers with nothing but a sleeper and a rooster leading up to "silence your rooster" were in my opinion award winning creative quality. (Not an endorsement of the med, just the advertising.)

Now I'm wondering how long a rooster would last if it had to crow every time a percentage of those million apneas caused arousals.

Kathy (a barnyard hen)

DyannaK · Post by **DyannaK** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:16 am

rooster wrote:
kteague wrote: ............My dream is to one day become an early riser again................
Kathy,

For a small monthly fee, I can arrange it.

LOL I love that cartoon Reminds me of the roosters when I was a kid on the farm...

sagesteve · Post by **sagesteve** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:59 am

Rooster...thank you for the heads up! Sure would explain a lot.

Catnapper · Post by **Catnapper** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm

So far you have stopped breathing 2 million times, but started breathing again 2 million plus one!

Whew! Thank goodness for cpap!

roster · Post by **roster** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:40 pm

kteague wrote: ......."silence your rooster" .........
Kathy (a barnyard hen)

There is a federal law against that.

roster · Post by **roster** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:44 pm

Catnapper wrote:So far you have stopped breathing 2 million times, but started breathing again 2 million plus one!

Whew! Thank goodness for cpap!

In our game, bat one thousand .......... or lose.

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:27 pm

What, Rooster, you mean it's illegal for the barnyard hen to silence her rooster? I could have ended up in the big henhouse.

By the way, I grew up on a small farm, and we had one young rooster that was my pet. Since adult roosters don't like to share the barnyard, and we had two, my father chose a more aggressive rooster to "rule the roost", and my pick was sent the way of the dinner table. Turned out Dad's guy had all the hens running squawking away because he was so mean and rough. Dad finally had to send him to the the dinner table to protect the hens. I bet my guy would have been quite the romeo.

Kathy

roster · Post by **roster** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:00 pm

Kathy,

When I was five years old, my mother told me one afternoon that I was now tall enough to reach into the hen's nests in the chicken coop. She gave me instructions and the egg basket and added, "The hens are probably sitting on the nests, but just put your hand in and they will move and you can get the eggs."

A few minutes later I proudly returned with a basket full of eggs. I told mom, "This is all except one hen would not move so I couldn't get her eggs."

Mom said, "Go back and just push your hand under her and she will move."

A few minutes later I came back with no eggs and scratches all over my hand. Mom said, "Oh, I am so sorry, that hen must be setting on her eggs." Mom felt so bad and treated me very nicely the rest of the day.

roster · Post by **roster** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:58 pm

Let's bump this up. A few of the newbies sound like they might have enough brain cells remaining to do some math.

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