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chunkyfrog wrote:This comment should not have been deleted:

CAIDENSMOM77 wrote:JUST CURIOUS HOW YOUR DAUGHTER IS DOING DID SHE GET THE TONSILECTOMY? MY 9 YEAR OLD SON WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SLEEP APNEA AND IS SCHEDULED TO GET HIS TONSILS REMOVED IN JANUARY..HE IS USING A CPAP MACHINE UNTIL THEN AND IT IS VERY HARD GETTING HIM ADJUSTED TO IT...I AM NERVOUS FOR HIM TO GET THE SURGERY AS IVE BEEN TOLD IT IS MORE RISKY FOR A PERSON WITH SLEEP APNEA TO BE PUT UNDER ANESTHESIA. BUT THE CURE RATE IS BETWEEN 80-90% AFTER THE SURGERY SO WERE GOING TO DO IT...

Answer: tonsillectomy has been known to help a child with apnea--as long as the blockage is in that area.
Adults are often offered surgery that will do little or no good.
Now I am going to go take an Ibuprofen.

Thanks CF for resurrecting that post. Wow, people deleting posts again that aren't spam.

Caidensmom, a bunch of us with sleep apnea have had various surgeries and we have done fine. Your son will be monitored very closely by the anesthesiologist.

If you have any concerns, you might want to ask to meet with someone from anesthesiology a few days before the surgery. They will discourage that but be persistent if that is what you want.

I did that before my septoplasty and got to meet with an anesthesiology resident. It really put my mind at ease.

Best of of luck to you.

49er

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING MY POST BACK UP I AM JUST CURIOUS HOW HER CHILD WAS AFTER THE SURGERY...SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS I KNOW ITS ANNOYING TO SOME PEOPLE AND I DONT MEAN TO "BE THAT PERSON" EVERYONE HATES!! IF I AM ON THE FORUM AFTER WORK HOURS AND USING MY PHONE I WILL NOT BE USING CAPS...MY SON HAD SUCCESS WITH HIS CPAP LAST NIGHT, AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS!!

Hey, ya'll! Finally got back on here to update. My daughter just turned 4 and she is doing AMAZING!!

Recovery was a little longer than 2 weeks for her and a little rougher, but not completely awful, than anticipated. Due to my sleep apnea and cpap use, having to get up with her to keep her pain under control, wreaked havoc on my sleep and hence my health during that time. I'm mostly caught up now!

However, she is no longer snoring, she is sleeping better and she has had a big growth spurt since then. She has always been a little taller (1/2-1 inch) and weighed more (1/2-1 pound) than her twin brother. She is now 2 inches taller and weighs 2 pounds more than he does. She's not exhausted during the day anymore and is in a better mood with less acting out now, too! I love it! So thankful I was able to see the signs, talk to her doctor and get the study done, then the surgery!

Karen

Good news! Keep those kiddies warm!

Great news!!!

Caidensmom, welcome to the board.

I apologize if some lowlife deleted your post because of all caps.

Unfortunately, you'll get lots of hate anywhere on the internet if you type all caps. It does make it REALLY hard to read.

If you're going to post from work, it's probably not too hard to figure out how to not type all caps. If you can type all lower case, that will probably be much more acceptable in general on the internet.

I'm curious why you can't type lower case or mixed case? Is it just a case of what you're used to, or is your computer somehow configured that way. I'm not berating you, I'm interested in why you'd be stuck in uppercase.

Good luck with your son's problems and keep after it despite the nutjobs. The owners of this board give pretty much free reign to the users, and we have a number of problem children.

Anyone who's made enough posts on this board or has been a member long enough can delete posts. I'm surprised it works as well as it does. However, if someone is being a pest and maliciously deleting other people's posts, the owners have been known to disable the problem user from being able to do this.

archangle wrote:
Unfortunately, you'll get lots of hate anywhere on the internet if you type all caps. It does make it REALLY hard to read.

I'm not the one who deleted the posts. I didn't even see them until today. But I wanted to give my perspective on posts in all caps. They hurt my eyes, give me a headache. If a post/email like that is more than a few sentences, I just skip it. It's not worth risking a headache. I don't say this to be mean, to let the person know that people WILL ignore what you say because of the all caps. If you want people to read your posts, they need to be in a normal format. All lower case is fine. But all caps really comes across as screaming, not just in attitude, but in physically reading it. The whole screen jumps out at me in the visual equivalent of loud.

zoocrewphoto wrote:They hurt my eyes, give me a headache.

It's very, very rude. I vote for deleting all posts that use caps inappropriately. But that is just one vote - I don't have moderator privileges.

If someone writes in here for the first time and the note's all in caps, I ask if they have a vision problem and/or do not know how to turn off the caps lock key (some don't!). But if it happens again, with no explanation or answer to my q's, I try to ignore the 'noise' if I think the poster needs help but ask again. If an explanation still isn't forthcoming, I decide if I want to bother or not in future. I don't think it should be that big of an issue after all - there are worse things than having to read caps (considering the commercial c..p we put up with all day anyhow), and I certainly wouldn't delete anyone's notes because of it (though I see 1-2 of mine were).

Julie wrote:If someone writes in here for the first time and the note's all in caps, I ask if they have a vision problem and/or do not know how to turn off the caps lock key (some don't!). But if it happens again, with no explanation or answer to my q's, I try to ignore the 'noise' if I think the poster needs help but ask again. If an explanation still isn't forthcoming, I decide if I want to bother or not in future. I don't think it should be that big of an issue after all - there are worse things than having to read caps (considering the commercial c..p we put up with all day anyhow), and I certainly wouldn't delete anyone's notes because of it (though I see 1-2 of mine were).

She DID explain why, but, YOU didn't read it and/or took it upon yourself to delete her responses. Now you are critical of spelling , punctuation, and capitalization.

Because my notes were deleted by SOMEONE else, I can't show you that her explanation came beforehand, so I did not see that until later (49'er didn't realize that either apparently). Whoever deleted things may well have been malicious (towards me for who knows why), but I did NOT delete anything here - go ask Carolyn if you'd like. You owe me an apology!

Mynah wrote:

zoocrewphoto wrote:They hurt my eyes, give me a headache.

It's very, very rude. I vote for deleting all posts that use caps inappropriately. But that is just one vote - I don't have moderator privileges.

This is not a democracy...you do not get a vote. Besides...I think you are very rude by making a judgement without knowing the facts.
She did explain why she was using CAPS, but someone deleted her response.

Mynah wrote: I vote for deleting all posts that use caps inappropriately.

I agree, but there are no moderators, so it won't happen.

Julie wrote:You owe me an apology!

I agree he should apologize, but don't think that will happen.

LSAT wrote:

Julie wrote:If someone writes in here for the first time and the note's all in caps, I ask if they have a vision problem and/or do not know how to turn off the caps lock key (some don't!). But if it happens again, with no explanation or answer to my q's, I try to ignore the 'noise' if I think the poster needs help but ask again. If an explanation still isn't forthcoming, I decide if I want to bother or not in future. I don't think it should be that big of an issue after all - there are worse things than having to read caps (considering the commercial c..p we put up with all day anyhow), and I certainly wouldn't delete anyone's notes because of it (though I see 1-2 of mine were).

She DID explain why, but, YOU didn't read it and/or took it upon yourself to delete her responses. Now you are critical of spelling , punctuation, and capitalization.

Actually, the explanation made no sense. She uses all caps at work. Okay, Does her keyboard not have a caps lock key? How does she type all caps then? The only real explanation would be if the caps lock key was stuck on. Otherwise, there is the capability to turn it OFF.

As for visual problem, I have the opposite. All caps causes a headache. I also have problems with high contrast text on glossy paper. I learned in high school that I have to cover that type of paper with tracing paper, or I will get sick from reading it. The whole page jumps out at me like it is screaming, so I get a headache and nausea from trying to focus on one word at a time. I used to go home sick every couple weeks until I figured out that it was caused by a particular text book that was only used once every couple weeks.

While I have difficulty understand how anybody would benefit from reading all caps, especially, writing all caps (they aren't the one who has to read it, and they seem to read our posts just fine); I will accept that they have a problem and answer with my own. I will not give myself a headache without a really good reason. So I skip and move on. It is not worth the hassle.

zoocrewphoto wrote:
Actually, the explanation made no sense. She uses all caps at work. Okay, Does her keyboard not have a caps lock key? How does she type all caps then? The only real explanation would be if the caps lock key was stuck on. Otherwise, there is the capability to turn it OFF.
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Agree totally - I spent years writing code in all caps. That never once prevented me from using upper and lower case and normal syntax.