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[SleepyT]

....As for apnea, the important thing is apnea kills.

Sometimes slowly and silently. Like boiling a frog.

Sometimes slowly and painfully. Like the death of a thousand cuts.

Sometimes suddenly by stroke or heart attack.

Even worse, sometimes it doesn't kill, it just wears you away to nothing.

I agree with this....so you might tell your husband it's better to catch it early and treat it than wait until sleep apnea has already done its damage. My father is 73 and found out last year that he has OSA. I suggested he be tested for it (since I have it...and it runs in families) after he announced he had heart problems. He also has glaucoma which I recently read on this forum can be caused to some degree by OSA. My dad's mother had a stroke....which I strongly believe came because she had undiagnosed sleep apnea. SO! Again....tell your husband this is serious and real.....and best to get it under control BEFORE it does harm that cannot be fixed. (Archangle...I'm begging you to change your avatar. Disturbing! And I like your posts...I just skip most of them now because of that puppy in the tortilla)

[phillywriter]

He should find out what your insurance replacement schedule is for all "parts": mask, mask cushion, hose, humidifier water chamber, cpap machine filters, etc. so that he can have a collection of spare parts, at least one spare for each part in case of breakage. Also, does he know when to replace certain items, like when to change the filter in the machine or when to replace the hose, for hygiene reasons?

I let him know. He'll be giving them a call back to find out the replacement schedule. He does know when they ought to be replaced, but as he was not consistently using it over the years, they all went for a while without being replaced. When he does use it, he is very on point with cleaning everything and making sure its all nice and dry before use. Now that he is trying to give it 100% effort, making sure that everything gets changed as often as recommended (if not more) will be very very important.

He actually got a whole accessories package with all those aforementioned things, not just the mask as the DME said he was overdue for all of it (just came a few hours ago, hooray!).