Right v Left Handed Poll

[tvmangum]

MY RT was talking the other day and was saying that most of her xPAP patients are left handed. I was wondering if that was true and thought I would ask everyone. Of course, this is strictly non-scientific.

[Slinky]

I am naturally left-handed. But in living in a right-handed world I'm almost ambidextrous. (I can hold my fork in either hand to eat!!) For 27 years I drove a left hand vehicle from the right front seat. What am I??

[Wulfman]

I am naturally left-handed. But in living in a right-handed world I'm almost ambidextrous. (I can hold my fork in either hand to eat!!) For 27 years I drove a left hand vehicle from the right front seat. What am I??

Ummmmm.......

Confused?
Hungry?
A (former) government employee.....capable of working with Republicans AND Democrats?
Someone who may be planning to move to Australia some day?

Or.....just our sweet, lovable "Slinky".

Den

[Tcamillemars]

Born left handed, switched to right handed at the "request" of an evil kindergarten teacher.

[JeffH]

I am naturally left-handed. But in living in a right-handed world I'm almost ambidextrous. (I can hold my fork in either hand to eat!!) For 27 years I drove a left hand vehicle from the right front seat. What am I??

A rural mail delivery person.

I too am left handed.

[Goofproof]

I am naturally left-handed. But in living in a right-handed world I'm almost ambidextrous. (I can hold my fork in either hand to eat!!) For 27 years I drove a left hand vehicle from the right front seat. What am I??

You are in that rare breed, a Female Postman! Jim

[Slinky]

Did you cheat, JeffH? Or are you a rural letter carrier?

I had a couple of those "evil teachers" early on as well, Tcamillemars.

Den, you hit the nail on the head w/the "confused"! BUT ...

... capable of working with Republicans AND Democrats?

Yer yokin', right???? Its gonna take a coupla years to forgive the Re.., Rep.., THOSE people for BushBaby, Cheney & Rummy!!!! If ever.

[ozij]

Right handed (me, not Slinky...).

You told us about your mail delivery days, Slinky hoisting heavy bags, if I remeber correctly.

O.

[Wulfman]

I am naturally left-handed. But in living in a right-handed world I'm almost ambidextrous. (I can hold my fork in either hand to eat!!) For 27 years I drove a left hand vehicle from the right front seat. What am I??

A rural mail delivery person.

I too am left handed.

I knew that she had been a rural mail delivery person.....I was just having "fun" with other possibilities.

But, I didn't know that about you....if you're saying that was your profession, also.

And, in reply to Goofproof's post, there are actually a number of female mail carriers around here.....but, yes, they've been somewhat rare.


Den

[ozij]

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I'm 5'4", female and weighed 105-115 most of my life. I've been as high as 120 lbs (other than when pregnant) and as low as 89 lbs (prior to a resection for Crohn's disease). 110-115 seems to be my best weight. 13" neck circumference. The 120 lbs was muscle mass accumulated when I was handling 50 lbs bags of dog and horse feed and working the "pouch rack" for the USPS dispatchng up to 70 lbs mail sacks to the steels and dock.

O.

[carbonman]

I for one, am offended by having to force myself into one of these categories.
We have all just endured a brutal display of left vs. right decisions, disguised as blue vs. red.
Seeing as how the "right" has always represented the old order,
and the left is opposition to that order, what does this have to do w/cpap therapy.
Is this another cleverly disguised plot to force a Resmed/Respironics war??

Are we next going to be forced into nasal/ffm categories choices and judged by those criteria?? Once the actual numbers are known, will the losers have to live w/shame and reproach at being a left handed, nasal pillow, resmed user or a right handed, ffm, resp. user or a right handed, nasal mask, resmed user or .......ah......I can't even keep track now......new and complex algorithms will have to be written to create the new categories.

If the left handed 'papers are in the majority, will they then be able to dictate that therapy drives the forum??
If the right handed 'papers are in majority, will they then be able to dictate that the forum drives therapy??
These are choices that I, for one, am just not ready to make.

If you admit to being left handed, then is it naturally assumed that you are living in reality?
If you admit to being right handed, then is it naturally assumed that you are living in fantasy?
Many who will be forced into one of these categories, will be living in fantasy, due to OSA.
While, those who have been getting hosed for some time, will be, once again, living in reality, due to their therapy.
Then, there will be those that are living in reality, in accepting their therapy,
but not yet far enough along to be considered removed from fantasy and back in reality.....
then there will be those that have been on the hose long enough to be back in reality, but choose to stay in fantasy....then those.....that...are....in.....reality.....
well, as above, new and complex algorithms will need to be written to determine each category.

The ramifications of this poll are staggering.
Did you consider this when you created it???

[sonogo]

Oh, Carbonman, it's worse than you think. It's really a plot to do away with masks altogether. The real decision here is: will you sleep at night with fingers from your left hand jammed up your nose, or your right? That's the new, evil therapy waiting in the wings for us hoseheads to replace energy-guzzling xpap machines, and it's being disguised as "all natural" and "what our ancestors, the cave men (and women), did for sleep apnea." Thank goodness this forum blew their cover.

[ozij]

If you admit to being left handed, then is it naturally assumed that you are living in reality?
If you admit to being right handed, then is it naturally assumed that you are living in fantasy?
Many who will be forced into one of these categories, will be living in fantasy, due to OSA.
While, those who have been getting hosed for some time, will be, once again, living in reality, due to their therapy.

You've got it wrong carbonman.... those who have been getting hosed for some time will be DREAMING, due their therapy.

O.

[carbonman]

those who have been getting hosed for some time will be DREAMING, due their therapy. O.

Excellent observation!.......which just adds to the complexity of the needed algorithms.

........so, does that new capacity to dream, due to therapy,
put you in the reality catagory, or does it put you
in the fantasy catagory??

Just proving my point as to the staggering ramifications to this poll.

[Paul56]

I would be smashing those blue lights and throwing the brick against the wall with my right hand.