How did people cope before CPAP?
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Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
Probably the cost of two healthy, green horses.
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Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $18 in 1913 (As far back as BLS goes.) is equivalent to $431 today.bwexler wrote:$18 back then was probably two weeks pay for the gent who got to wear the belt and earn the money to pay for it.
That is probably equivalent to more than $1,000 today.
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Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
Some of the CPAP posters are asking about vintage Voodoun cures for apnea. It is easier to ask about snoring, so I called a friend down in NOLA who lives near bourbon street and has some connections in the Voodoun scene. Voodoo, Hoodoo or Voodoun cures for snoring typically take a few weeks to complete and require that the snorer (the afflicted) and the bed partner (the hapless witness) participate fully in the cure. I was hoping this involved dolls and pins, but it does not.
To cure Snoring with Hatian/African VooDoun, the afflicted and his witness (usually the husband and his wife) would wait until the new moon to cut fourteen switches in a marsh (swamp). It is a good idea that this requires two people, because a new moon is dark in a swamp and really more flaming torches are better in my estimation. The switches must be thicker than a pinky finger, but not larger than a man's thumb. These switches should be at least 24 inches in length and somewhat green so they whip back when used to hit something. With each switch cut, the afflicted would call out "no more" and the witness says "yes one" until the last switch was cut and the witness said "it is done". Cat tail switches were not recommended unless you wanted to borrow trouble in the afterlife.
After gathering the switches, the afflicted and witness would go home with the bundle of switches tied together with red twine and a crucifix until the next night.
On the first night after the new moon, the Voodoun priest or priestess would bless the couple and tie chicken feet to the four posts on the bed. At the head of the bed, the Voodoun priest would place black rooster feet so the snoring cure would bring fertility and not squelch future erections in the marriage.
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Once all that is complete the witness takes one of the switches and smacks the tar out of the snorer on both balls of the feet and then the shins. It wasn't clear to me if both feet were smacked at the same time or separately, but the witness is supposed to really whale on it until the switch frays on the end. Then the process gets repeated the next night until all the switches are gone. Most young couples don't need to go further than the first night. Older couples, where the witness has witnessed the snoring for sometime and maybe there's some bitterness, those couples can finish the bundle.
If the couple is still together after that, the red twine and crucifix is added to the black rooster feet and something else is preserved, but I can read the notes I took.
Anyway, this is pretty complicated and somewhat painful, I mean gosh - swinging a switch fourteen nights in a row is going to really bulk up the muscles!
To cure Snoring with Hatian/African VooDoun, the afflicted and his witness (usually the husband and his wife) would wait until the new moon to cut fourteen switches in a marsh (swamp). It is a good idea that this requires two people, because a new moon is dark in a swamp and really more flaming torches are better in my estimation. The switches must be thicker than a pinky finger, but not larger than a man's thumb. These switches should be at least 24 inches in length and somewhat green so they whip back when used to hit something. With each switch cut, the afflicted would call out "no more" and the witness says "yes one" until the last switch was cut and the witness said "it is done". Cat tail switches were not recommended unless you wanted to borrow trouble in the afterlife.
After gathering the switches, the afflicted and witness would go home with the bundle of switches tied together with red twine and a crucifix until the next night.
On the first night after the new moon, the Voodoun priest or priestess would bless the couple and tie chicken feet to the four posts on the bed. At the head of the bed, the Voodoun priest would place black rooster feet so the snoring cure would bring fertility and not squelch future erections in the marriage.
You will be persecuted for your good deeds and should make Ebo and offerings of Protection.
· “A well fed dog does not play with a hungry one.” Yoruba Proverb
· “A deaf dog is good for hunting.” Yoruba Proverb
· Regret comes from thinking with the wrong head
· Regret comes from promiscuity.
· Regret comes from a lack of Honesty and Integrity.
· Regret comes from negative energy and a serious need to be cleansed.
Once all that is complete the witness takes one of the switches and smacks the tar out of the snorer on both balls of the feet and then the shins. It wasn't clear to me if both feet were smacked at the same time or separately, but the witness is supposed to really whale on it until the switch frays on the end. Then the process gets repeated the next night until all the switches are gone. Most young couples don't need to go further than the first night. Older couples, where the witness has witnessed the snoring for sometime and maybe there's some bitterness, those couples can finish the bundle.
If the couple is still together after that, the red twine and crucifix is added to the black rooster feet and something else is preserved, but I can read the notes I took.
Anyway, this is pretty complicated and somewhat painful, I mean gosh - swinging a switch fourteen nights in a row is going to really bulk up the muscles!
Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
WHERE do you find this stuff??
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GettingBetter
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Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
Lucyhere wrote:WHERE do you find this stuff??
Well, I found the chicken feet picture on the interwebs. I really like that picture because it looks almost like a concert picture - "PLAY FREEBIRD!!" Some of the folks here will know what means.
Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
The good part it's covered by Obama Care, if you buy the premium plan, but you must furnish your own chicken feet, the must be fresh, not boiled, so you can't make broth first. JimGettingBetter wrote:Lucyhere wrote:
Well, I found the chicken feet picture on the interwebs. I really like that picture because it looks almost like a concert picture - "PLAY FREEBIRD!!" Some of the folks here will know what means.
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire
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GettingBetter
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Re: How did people cope before CPAP?
Many young boys and girls have dreamed of a life as a cowboy, herding cattle to market across a sea of prairie grasses, using a cactus or tumbleweed as a pillow under the stars and eating beans for breakfast, lunch and dinner served up from a covered wagon by a loveable old trail chef named Dutch.
That romantic picture of cowboy heaven doesn’t include
Obstructive Sleep Apnea because
Real Cowboys Didn’t Snore; They Yodeled!
Real Cowboys yodel to the herd and other trail hands thus strengthening the weakened girly muscles in the throat. When these throat muscles are weakened by living a modern life of speaking softly on a cellphone and not yelling across the office at someone, snoring at night is the result. Yodeling is like reverse cpap because the lungs are used to maintain moist air pressure from within, not from a machine outside.
https://youtu.be/HajY_r6RNy0 <== AMAZING COWBOY YODEL
Yodeling or Jodeling is described as a form of singing or calling marked by rapid alternation between the normal voice and falsetto, which means it’s like singing in your regular voice and then squealing like you have icy water running down your crack. I made a man yodel once; he bought me a house.
Yodeling was adopted by the American cowboy from the Austrian and Bavarian immigrants that stopped off in the US on their way to teach Mexicans how to play Tejano Music on accordion and of course yodel. It is worth noting that there are no studies for Mariachi snoring, but the song “Malaguena Salerosa” is a study in the battle between musician and well-toned vocalist – the yodel in that song is a long held falsetto, determined in length by the musicians – not the vocalist.
https://youtu.be/wiiMAq13-ZI <== THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE BAND
Of course Cowboys were not interested in opening a restaurant. The objective of yodeling was to 1) keep the herd calm for market and 2) not get snake bit.
Snoring mimics the vibrational frequency of a rattlesnake’s rattle. For cowboys on the range, snoring meant that a snake would be attracted to the snoring sound and in defending its territory, would bite the sleeping cow poke right in the eye. Whatever glamour one might have for living life on the range, getting bit by a rattlesnake in the eye takes the shine right off of the fantasy. The cowboy life was tough, but didn't include snoring on the range.
That romantic picture of cowboy heaven doesn’t include
Obstructive Sleep Apnea because
Real Cowboys Didn’t Snore; They Yodeled!
Real Cowboys yodel to the herd and other trail hands thus strengthening the weakened girly muscles in the throat. When these throat muscles are weakened by living a modern life of speaking softly on a cellphone and not yelling across the office at someone, snoring at night is the result. Yodeling is like reverse cpap because the lungs are used to maintain moist air pressure from within, not from a machine outside.
https://youtu.be/HajY_r6RNy0 <== AMAZING COWBOY YODEL
Yodeling or Jodeling is described as a form of singing or calling marked by rapid alternation between the normal voice and falsetto, which means it’s like singing in your regular voice and then squealing like you have icy water running down your crack. I made a man yodel once; he bought me a house.
Yodeling was adopted by the American cowboy from the Austrian and Bavarian immigrants that stopped off in the US on their way to teach Mexicans how to play Tejano Music on accordion and of course yodel. It is worth noting that there are no studies for Mariachi snoring, but the song “Malaguena Salerosa” is a study in the battle between musician and well-toned vocalist – the yodel in that song is a long held falsetto, determined in length by the musicians – not the vocalist.
https://youtu.be/wiiMAq13-ZI <== THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE BAND
Of course Cowboys were not interested in opening a restaurant. The objective of yodeling was to 1) keep the herd calm for market and 2) not get snake bit.
Snoring mimics the vibrational frequency of a rattlesnake’s rattle. For cowboys on the range, snoring meant that a snake would be attracted to the snoring sound and in defending its territory, would bite the sleeping cow poke right in the eye. Whatever glamour one might have for living life on the range, getting bit by a rattlesnake in the eye takes the shine right off of the fantasy. The cowboy life was tough, but didn't include snoring on the range.