Nobody Can top Me!!

[ultimatestrap]

Hello...thanks for the chuckle...you certainly have had some funny stuff going on...nothing too funny for me...just trying to breath at night so I could get that rest I so desperately need! One thing that has helped me tremendously is The Ultimate Chin Strap for Sleep Apnea: it is the best one on the market and the only one that works...I was losing so much air through an open mouth at night so I wasn't benefitting from use of my breathing machine. That's it, other than I am so grateful that I was diagnosed properly and finally resting at night! Take Care.....Mary

[reubjames]

The 2nd day into a hunting trip at my friend's ranch, his mutt dog ate the entire neoprene head strap (minus the plastic clips) for my full face Quattro. I guess she thought my sweat tasted good.

I was new to CPAP at the time and was still trying to get used to using it. I knew I needed to use it that 2nd night or I might set back my progress. I spent an hour fashioning some new headgear out of some spare 550 cord and the clips that the dog meticulously picked out of the yummy neoprene.

I think the dog regretted eating that headgear the next day when it was time for her to poop.

I still carry that 550 cord headgear in my CPAP bag "just in case"...

[Bons]

I think we have a winner.... both for the dumbest thing to happen and the commitment to cpap!

[jnk]

I spent an hour fashioning some new headgear out of some spare 550 cord and the clips that the dog meticulously picked out of the yummy neoprene.

You're hired. (Double starting pay.)

[kteague]

I can't top anyone's story. I just wish I had a dollar for every time I've gotten all masked up and in bed only to realize I:
... forgot to turn off a light
... forgot to fill the humidifier
... forgot to do my nightly lock check
... forgot to get an extra blanket
... forgot the phone
... forgot to take my meds
... forgot to use my TENS Unit
... forgot to turn the heat down or the A/C on or off
... forgot anything else that can be forgotten

[reubjames]

Well I am an engineer and Eagle Scout so rigging up a solution when a problem exists just comes naturally to me. It was the most uncomfortable headgear I've ever used but it did work and kept me in the CPAP until Monday (dog ate it on Saturday) when I could get to the medical supply house to pick up another set.

Reuben.

[Otter]

Philips Dog Chow
with Neoprene!

Hosehead flavor

[jnk]

Well I am an engineer and Eagle Scout so rigging up a solution when a problem exists just comes naturally to me. It was the most uncomfortable headgear I've ever used but it did work and kept me in the CPAP until Monday (dog ate it on Saturday) when I could get to the medical supply house to pick up another set.

Reuben.

Well, if you've still got that MacGyvered headgear, and you get bored one day, post a picture of it to an Internet picture site then start a thread linking to the picture and telling the story in more detail. It will be inspirational to people, I'm sure.

And, hey, if Rested Gal sees the thread, you might even get one of her coveted honorary "awards"--if being an engineer doesn't disqualify you for consideration. She keeps tabs on modifications made to masks over the years, and she loves dog stories, so I think you might be an easy "in."

Most of us without your kind of skills might consider "dog ate my mask" to be one of the few valid excuses for skipping a night or two. Nevertheless, speaking for myself, I find your account particularly inspirational as exemplary of the problem-solving skills needed to some degree by all of us to make therapy work for us in varying circumstances.

Why do all my posts sound like they are composed by a particularly annoying robot?

[Otter]

Why do all my posts sound like they are composed by a particularly annoying robot?

I"ve never noticed that your writing seemed robotic, but have you taken a Voight-Kampff test lately, Jnk?

[jnk]

Why do all my posts sound like they are composed by a particularly annoying robot?

I"ve never noticed that your writing seemed robotic, but have you taken a Voight-Kampff test lately, Jnk?

I think I once took an illegal replica of that test, but the memory of that may just have been implanted.

[DaveLP]

We headed down I-75 toward Panama City for a week of fun in the sun. One hour from home I realized I didn't pack my CPAP! My Wife and I talked about it for a while, whether I could rent one for a week, and decided we had to go back, since I probably couldn't find an open supplier until Monday. An hour home and another hour back to where we were and we were once again on the way to Florida!

That won't happen again!

[OutaSync]

First night of a 2 week cruise, I discovered that my humidifier tank had not been put back in my travel pack after my last hospital stay. On the M Series machine you have to have an adapter to not use the humidifier and I didn't have the adapter either. I had three miserable nights until we arrived in Antigua where the ship's doctor had arranged for a spare tank to be delivered to the ship. I would have paid anything for that tank and expected a huge bill, but never received one.

Now I have a checklist in my case and double check every item before traveling. Also a good idea in case someone else has to pack your bag in an emergency.

[indyredsfan]

I had three miserable nights until we arrived in Antigua where the ship's doctor had arranged for a spare tank to be delivered to the ship. I would have paid anything for that tank and expected a huge bill, but never received one.

Please post the name of the cruise line. They deserve applause!

[MC_Escher]

Well, I just started on my treatment a week ago, so I've not yet managed to anything stupid with my machine or mask.

But, on the theory that "Teh Stupid" isn't limited to CPAPs, plus the fact that I need SOMETHING for a first post, I give you the adventures of Captain McDumdum... Me.


I can't count the number of times I have been looking for some item, got to a place where I had to lift something up with two hands in order to look, and ended up setting down the item I was looking for in order to do it.

Still, the thing that sticks out the most in my memory was the time I lost a 4,000lb Oldsmobile.


It was a bright, sunny day during a period of beautiful weather in the late spring. Temps in the high 70's, a nice breeze blowing almost constantly and the kind of cerulean skies that take your breath away. So naturally I decided to go see a movie.

I walked out of my apartment, expecting to see my car in the parking lot, but it was gone.

Hmmm... Maybe I'd parked it on the other side of the building the night before and just forgot. Nope, not there either.

Uh, oh... Did I leave it on the sidewalk parking area and end up having it towed? No... the owner of the building said he didn't have it towed and hadn't seen it.

I checked with the police to see if they towed it, with the finance company to see if they repossessed it and even with my somewhat brain damaged friends to see if perhaps this was a practical joke.


In the end, I realized it was time to walk over to the police station and file a report. But first, I thought I'd walk across the street and down a block to the little grocery store and buy something to drink while I walked the half mile to the Police Station.

I walked in, bought myself a soda and walked out of the door already drinking it. This directed my eyes upward to the sky, which I gazed at for a few moments, then brought my eyes back down to the parking lot in front of me where they landed upon... You know where this is going, right?

Yup...
I suddenly remembered that I had stopped off at this very same store the prior night on the way home from work, and the evening was so beautiful that I decided to walk the hundred yards to my apartment; completely forgetting that I even OWNED a car, let alone that I had driven it to the store and was now leaving it behind.


So unless someone here has misplaced something larger than 4 door Oldsmobile, I think I win.