Craziest things you have heard...

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:00 am

I was shopping for a new mattress set last weekend, the sales person overheard me mention "my mask" and wondered what that was about. I began to explain, I have Sleep Apnea, that I stop breathing while asleep, and have to sleep with a CPAP mask on.

He said, "You sleep with a mask on? No wonder you can't breath!...."

Needless to say, I didn't bother....

Boomer

ProfessorSleep · Post by **ProfessorSleep** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:45 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote: Maybe this person meant you don't look like a walking zombie who never gets any restful sleep, is fatigued beyond belief and usually can't construct a sentence that has any rationale behind it as your brain is half-asleep from the oxygen desats you've been living with? ...

Have we met? You just described me perfectly! I guess that should be the former me...

Swordz · Post by **Swordz** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:49 pm

"There's nothing wrong with you... You're just lazy"

Everybody dogpile on that one. How many times have we all heard that one!?

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:51 pm

Professor, it wasn't hard to describe "you" because I think that description fit most of us at one time or another, if not all of us. We just have to thank heaven that we're not that person anymore. I consider what has happened to me in the past four months a tremendous blessing.

ProfessorSleep · Post by **ProfessorSleep** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:59 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote: We just have to thank heaven that we're not that person anymore. I consider what has happened to me in the past four months a tremendous blessing.

Amen!

I just remembered another crazy thing I heard around the time of my sleep study. "Well if you're so tired, why don't you just get more sleep?" From a family member, no less.

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:03 pm

Professor,

To which you should have just said, "Now why didn't I think of that! Thank you!"

ProfessorSleep · Post by **ProfessorSleep** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:11 pm

LOL! Good answer. When I heard it my jaw dropped so much that I think I needed a chin strap even before starting treatment! Talk about clueless! I like your response, though. I wonder if I'll hear such a comment again?

yellowcason · Post by **yellowcason** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:28 pm

At a party I told someone that I had apnea and they asked me if they could have a piece. lol....they thought that it was a desert!

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:39 pm

At a party I told someone that I had apnea and they asked me if they could have a piece.

I didn't think there could be another one to top the ones we've read so far, but this is a true LOL-er!!! Thanks, Rebecca. That was great. That person must have been starving...

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