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tomjax · Post by **tomjax** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:19 pm

Methinks this is spam

tomjax · Post by **tomjax** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:55 am

How do I delete my own posting?

Would I be banned if I delete my own posting as spam?

Tom140ph · Post by **Tom140ph** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:16 am

I've deleted my own when I've double-posted.
I think you'll be safe.

~Tom

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:39 am

Oh, what the heck.....just leave the thread up. Do you realize how many "views" it's had already?
Maybe others will join in and contribute some "nothing" to it, too.

I've done my part.

Have a nice day, y'all.

Den

Missy · Post by **Missy** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:45 am

Hey, I just happen to have nothing Here's some nothing!!

Dawn

Tom140ph · Post by **Tom140ph** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:56 pm

What did the zero say to the eight?

"Nice belt."

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:16 pm

Me thinks me needs to get a life. Can't believe I just did this.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:13 pm

A perfect thread for me, a non-CPAP user leeching off of the kind good graces of those more successful at sucking hose (er...) than I was.

I can write with impunity. I can impugn with righteousness.

I can make really bad puns.

Oh happy day. Oh joy. Oh rapture.

Liam, who definitely needs to dial back on the meds.

elliejose · Post by **elliejose** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:31 pm

What happened Liam?

Why are you now a non-cpap user?

I became one of those once, 12 or 15 years ago, and now I wish I had kept on keeping on until I made it work then. I'm still trying now. I am more determined this time. I want to feel good again. I want my energy back. I'm tired of taking meds all the time.

Hope you are feeling good as a non-cpap user!!!

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:41 pm

elliejose wrote:What happened Liam?

Why are you now a non-cpap user?

He couldn't sleep with a mask on and a machine goin'. He tried and tried and tried...tried different masks...he tried. He just couldn't stop thinking about "breathing".

Or somethin' like that.

He tried.

He really did.

And he's sweet to keep checking back in. We missed him!

He did try.

Really.

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:42 pm

Because my CPAP machines (I tried several) managed to cure my sleep apnea 100%. I got to the point where most nights I had zero events. Not a single one...

Because I never got to sleep. When the pressure was too low I felt like I couldn't get enough oxygen. When it was too high, I felt like I couldn't breathe out. And the whole time, I just couldn't stop my brain from focusing on the fact that I had a jellyfish getting frisky with my face.

I'm particularly susceptible to that insidious brand of insomnia in which your brain says "You should sleep. You really should sleep. Think about how much better it'd be if you could sleep. Think about why you can't. Think think think think think" and some nights I just can't stop focusing on topics enough to doze off.

So all CPAP did was give focus to my already wildly running thoughts. Generally the pattern was 2-3 nights without sleeping at all, followed by one where I finally got to sleep, fitfully, with frequent wakings, getting ever more insanely furious at the situation, until I ripped the mask and whatever unfortunate few remaining hairs I happened to accidentally grab with it violently from my head and flung it across the room to the extreme length of my six foot hose (not that I'm bragging), at which point I actually got enough sleep so that the next night I could go back to the start of the cycle.

I finally realized that sleeping on my side (thereby cutting back seriously on the apneic events, or so my lovely wife tells me) and actually getting some (sometimes poor) sleep was better than spending all night fending off the attentions of "Bubba, the amorous and species confused squid" and getting none at all.

After which, I left CPAPTALK, because I didn't feel like I really belonged here, got sucked back in a few weeks back because I was still getting the occasional "There's been a reply to a post you made" message, and found that people still found my writing amusing (or at least were kind enough to say so to my digital face), and thus, here I am.

Liam, who's still not sure his infant son doesn't have a bit of squid DNA...

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:16 pm

Doctors

"No need for me to come out to the house," the doctor
told the worried caller. "I've checked my files and your
uncle isn't really ill at all - he just thinks he's sick."
A week later, the doctor telephoned to make sure his
diagnosis had been correct. "How's your uncle today?"he asked.
"Worse," came the reply. "Now he thinks he's dead."

kteague · Post by **kteague** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:03 am

Ever go somewhere reluctantly, only to end up having a great time?

Thanks y'all for lightening my load!

Liam - If I took medicine for an affliction then because of the side effects decided to quit and just tough it out, wouldn't I still be welcomed at the wellness groups? Who can better relate to the struggle than one who struggled was so hard?

Liam1965 · Post by **Liam1965** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:13 pm

kteague wrote:Liam - If I took medicine for an affliction then because of the side effects decided to quit and just tough it out, wouldn't I still be welcomed at the wellness groups? Who can better relate to the struggle than one who struggled was so hard?

Well, yes and no... This group isn't targeted specifically at people with Apnea, it's targeted at those with Apnea who are choosing to add insult to injury by transforming into a cyborg for fully 1/3 of their lives.

That's not to be insulting to those for whom it works, it is, after all, the state of the art of treatment these days.

Nevertheless, my fear is that instead of standing as a shining example of the horrors that await those who fail to get and remain compliant, I will instead serve as a justification for those who would give up, something along the lines of "Well, Liam gave up, and except for that debilitating facial tic and rather odd sense of personal hygiene, he seems none the worse for wear, I think I'll give up as well".

Obviously, I'm not so famous that too terribly many people are going to base their entire lives around me (although I think we can all agree this would be a much better world, as measured in quantity of fart jokes, if they did), but nevertheless...

Seriously, I don't want to run the risk of being the naysayer that talks someone who might otherwise obtain serious help into giving up, in much the same way that I don't like to have serious discussions about religion, because I don't want to be the person responsible for changing someone's mind, only to find out at the moment of death that MY beliefs aren't the right ones, and I turned someone else away from the correct path.

Plus, it's a bit of a responsibility, having to find ways to be funny every time I open my, er, fingers. My humor blog has become increasingly infrequently updated, because I ran dry some miles back and have been coasting with the engine off ever since.

Liam, who never met a phor he didn't like.

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:26 pm

Liam1965 wrote:Plus, it's a bit of a responsibility, having to find ways to be funny every time I open my, er, fingers. My humor blog has become increasingly infrequently updated, because I ran dry some miles back and have been coasting with the engine off ever since.

Maybe you need to hang around with this wild and crazy bunch a little more often to help "fill your tank".

Best wishes,

Den

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