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You sounded very reasonable to me, Slinky. In other words: you were aiding and abetting the enemy in a religious war. It is always dangerous to sound the voice of reason where reason is disliked.

Insurrection - is what I'd call it. Typical of you Slinky, very typical....

DreamStalker, were you really snapped off before even posting?


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ozij wrote:DreamStalker, were you really snapped off before even posting?

They probably had his IP address from earlier ...

I was there, Slinky, and took part in the discussion. You were very diplomatic! I go to that forum but it so restricted! My posts have been removed there. I use my same Username there. Maybe shouldn't but the password is different. I'm glad the discussion is still there and others can read it and draw their own conclusions. In reviewing the discussion, there were more seeing our "enlightened" point of view than not. Keep up the good fight Slinky!!

ozij wrote:DreamStalker, were you really snapped off before even posting?
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yeah i was wondering about that...are you, like, blacklisted there or something?

mmrrowww....how subversive!

Slinky, you rabble-rouser you!

Always trying to educate people, criticizing lackluster medical providers, suggesting that patients actually have rights, insinuating that people care more about their own health than their doctors, the list goes ON and ON!! Sheesh, what next? Are you going to try to get PAP treatment for just ANYBODY who needs it? I mean, C'mon!


I'm thankful for you, by the way.

Keep causin' trouble, we'll back you up here!

Take Care,
Cathy

Well I stupidly used the same infamous username I use here. But yes, I went through the registration process and it was successful. Then I went to the thread and began typing a post and when I clicked to submit it prompted me for username and password ... I was given the impression after registration confirmation that I was already logged in. So I re-entered my username and password and it would not accept it. So then I thought maybe I was typing my password wrong so I tried the "forgot your password" link and it said this username is incorrect or inactive or something like that.

Actually here is the error message:

"Sorry, but your password cannot be retrieved because your account is currently inactive. Please contact the forum administrator for more information."

I suppose they do have my IP address now or other ways of keeping me off but they are not worth the effort to circumvent.

Thank you Johnny for letting me hang around here

Since you've already registered, out of pure curiousity, I'd try posting again. Maybe the registeration process didn't - uh - register where it should have?

The idea the you would be yanked based on your posting here without ever having postied there is mindboggling.

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I may get "blacklisted" there too and not be able to get back on. I am so thankful for this board and have to add my thanks to Johnny Goodman for providing a truly open forum for those of us with sleep apnea. I have not found another on the net that allows such openness. This forum is so NEEDED and those here are so HELPFUL! Thank you, Johnny!!

Wulfman wrote:ROTFLMAO!!!

Welcome to the party, Slinky!

"Never argue with an idiot......they'll wear you down and beat you with experience."

Being unable to stay away from the party ... I wondered what would happen if I challenged Mike's statement about xPAP machines not being able to monitor anything other than apneas.

The result was about like you predicted, Den

Mike wrote:there are a bunch of folks that have played with them including a few engineers, while the patents say that, the results show otherwise. If you don't believe me, try dragging your hose on something, it will register as a snore or more sometimes. (Derek did a lot of testing, and he is a smart guy)

I'm reminded of Bill Engvall's routine. Here's your sign ...

Ahhhh, the freedom and enlightenment here at cpaptalk!!! And the sense of humor.

Really, given their goals and position I can understand their deleting instructions on how to access the set up menu and change your pressure and some of their other restrctions - BUT - other than monitoring unacceptable posts they'd be better off keeping their dumb comments to themselves.

I've been tempted to point out to Mike that I have severe COPD and a sleep doctor who put me on a two week loaner of an autoPAP set free range from 4 csm to 20 cms!!!! And I even have a history of a spontaneous pneumothorax! (And probably two others I didn't go to the doctor for and just suffered w/for 2-3 months thinking it was "pleurisy" before that). That sleep doctor was fully aware of my history.

Guess what? I "lived" thru all THREE weeks w/that loaner autoPAP at 4cms to 20 cms.

Would I have agreed to that pressure range knowing then what I do now? No. Because if you DO have a bleb or two or few, yeah, there COULD be a problem .... but would I be panicky or whatever about it? No. I'd just tell him to drop that upper pressure a bit. (Or drop it myself).

And by the way, that forum has been having problems w/its software the last few days. There are times I've posted and when I submitted the post up would come an error message that the site was down or whatever, the 404 error message. When I first subscribed there I ran into similar w/the registration as Den did. The early morning hours seems to be when they have the most problems tho.

I saw nothing wrong with what you said Slinky.
Sounds to me like Mike is the one that has issues.

http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml


beware using a proxy is not necessarily free of getting trojans - let alone getting porn - oh well - hope you got good protection if you try - I use proxies all the time

where is ~SWS and Aunt Weeza when we need them?

Slinky - if you had not written out a suggested script for a new CPAP machine to give to my sleep doc, I would still have a the Plus machine and NO data! You keep helping us newbies! Thank goodness I found this forum! CPAP education and entertainment---all at one web site!

Just the other night I had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep, and when I got up there was a phone call from Officer Obie. And he said:

"Trying to talk sense to some people is like trying to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't do any good and it annoys the pig"

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And auto-papping and self-titrating." And they all came back,
shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin
about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, accessing the clinician's
menu, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.

Atta girl Slinky!