Placement of CPAP Machine?

[palerider]

I'll leave my sacram in my head.

that ship has sailed.

[Julie]

To be fair, sometimes it's hard to see the trees for the forest... after a while everything looks like a problem when you're tired.

[Tatooed Lady]

You could try something like this http://www.target.com/p/room-essentials ... A-13892292 to let you experiment with putting your machine at different levels. The spacing between the shelves is adjustable.

It takes MONEY to shop anywhere. This is not a barter society and I don't have anything to barter. Get this one simple rule in life and you will understand where I'm coming from. May be I should re-apply to Target to see If they'd hire me, even though I have little retail exp.

I doubt the retail experience would KILL that idea as much as your obvious lack of ANY people skills. Hint: avoid any sales position.

[Drowsy Dancer]

Separate from Craigslist there is also something in some areas called Freecycle, where you can find people giving away things like chairs and stepstools.

[RogerSC]

If your bed is low, and there's space by the head of your bed, and you aren't likely to walk there or kick it, you could take a piece of cardboard from a shipping box and put it under the cpap on the floor. I've thought about doing that myself...just cut a rectangular piece of cardboard out of a shipping box flap about the size of your cpap and put that on the floor under your cpap. I have a computer on a carpeted floor set up that way to keep the carpet dust out of the computer fans. Cost me nothing, and works well.

On the other hand, my cpap is currently on a bedside table that's higher than my bed, no problems in over 3 years now. So you can also leave it the way that it is and everything will be okay *smile*. I don't know if you have heated tubing, but I never get water in the tubing from my cpap to my mask. I think that heated tubing helps with that, no chance for the humidity in the air blown out of the machine to condense if the tubing is heated. You can also using one of those tubing snugglies to keep water vapor from condensing, if you don't have a heated tube.

But it sounds like your current setup has been working fine for you so far, so stay I'd just stay with it and call it a day *smile*.

[Tatooed Lady]

You can also using one of those tubing snugglies to keep water vapor from condensing,

Oooohhh!! Them's FIGHTIN' WORDS! If I may....*ahem* "I have NO money, NO job and NO way to trade ANYTHING for SOMETHING that doesn't cost NOTHING! It's not EASY enough, blah, blah, blah..." sorry, kinda wound down there...but you get the idea. At least I didn't rant over 3 paragraphs worth of eye glazing.

[postitnote]

First, I hope your situation does get better and you find a job you love! I hope your mom's health improves as well. Freecycle is an option to get a small table or nightstand. If you have a dollar store nearby and can afford to spend a dollar plus tax you can buy a dish tub. I have bought several of these tubs for my house. I use them for the grands little toys and also for their tub toys. I store cleaning supplies in them too. Whoops, getting off track here.

I know it sounds stupid but remember that when things look really bleak they have to get better eventually

Edit: You'd turn the dish tub upside-down to use it!

[RogerSC]

You can also using one of those tubing snugglies to keep water vapor from condensing,

Oooohhh!! Them's FIGHTIN' WORDS! If I may....*ahem* "I have NO money, NO job and NO way to trade ANYTHING for SOMETHING that doesn't cost NOTHING! It's not EASY enough, blah, blah, blah..." sorry, kinda wound down there...but you get the idea. At least I didn't rant over 3 paragraphs worth of eye glazing.

Now now, one could make a cloth cover for one's tubing if one needed to *smile*. Just take an old flannel shirt, button it up, and run the tubing through the sleeves *smile*. A little duct tape or sewing could be used to finish it up *smile*.

Had to come up with something there to compensate for the lapse *smile*.

[chunkyfrog]

You can't believe how liberating it can be to give yourself permission to pick up things off the curb!
Free stuff is everywhere. There is no shame in recycling stuff someone else was too foolish to save.
This is what it means to be green. And you don't need to be a frog, either.

[palerider]

This is what it means to be green. And you don't need to be a frog, either.

but it never hurts.

[Tatooed Lady]

This is what it means to be green. And you don't need to be a frog, either.

but it never hurts.

GET OUTTA MY HEAD!! Omg...you're toooo good at this. Most stalkers only tell me i need more milk or dish soap.

[palerider]

This is what it means to be green. And you don't need to be a frog, either.

but it never hurts.

GET OUTTA MY HEAD!! Omg...you're toooo good at this. Most stalkers only tell me i need more milk or dish soap.

but it's so cozy in here.... toss another log on the fire, there's a dear.

[mgaggie]

The only ass in this thread is yourself footballgirl13.

Lose the attitude, take a spoonful of concrete and harden the feck up. Stop playing the victim 'oh woe is me'. Do you want some cheese with your whine?

I can't believe how rudely you've treated people who have tried to HELP YOU. I don't give a flying fig how you treat me, but when you treat the brillant people on this forum the way you have, I'm gonna come out give you what you deserve.

[Tatooed Lady]

Feck? I love learning new words. It makes me feel so culturally rounded.

[chunkyfrog]

---Thinking of all the single syllable words beginning with "f" that can be used in place of
that other word (the one that simply rolls off the tongue--especially when you're thirteen)