Sleeping with windows open

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Mongo
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Sleeping with windows open

Post by Mongo » Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:08 am

Been on cpap for 6 months and love it. There is a draw back though, sleeping with the windows open. There was a skunk outside and boy did I wake up fast. Bad aroma therapy. Now that I think about it I probally would of woke up if I were using cpap or not.

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Re: Sleeping with windows open

Post by Madalot » Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:15 am

LOL -- That's happened to us before (both my husband and I are on machines). Skunks are the worst, but we've also dealt with smoke from our neighbor's wood-burning furnace (or people burning leaves), among other nasty smells. When something like that happens, we close the window and try to re-group a bit, getting up and airing everything out for a few minutes.

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Re: Sleeping with windows open

Post by lazer » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:59 pm

Sucks to when your significant other decides it's funny to fart in the intake...

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Re: Sleeping with windows open

Post by greatunclebill » Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:21 pm

be glad you can smell those things. a few years back i completely lost my sense of smell and most of my sense of taste.

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