Tattoos and CPAP

I was just looking at some cool tattoos on the Discover Magazine site, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/ ... -emporium/.

It got me to thinking that surely some of our members have tattoos to honor their cpap equipment or designate themselves as cpap patients. Care to share a photo with us?

This one's two days old...and it's spelled tattoo...LOL

Not cpap related, but old deadhead related.

rooster wrote:It got me to thinking that surely some of our members have tatoos to honor their cpap equipment or designate themselves as cpap patients. Care to share a photo with us?

Coincidence of all coincidences...

I was just thinking about getting a tattoo with one of my favorite CPAP machines emblazoned with hot-rod style flames shooting off the back. Then, of course, some appropriate lifestyle statement in text beneath that picture of my tricked out machine. Maybe something to showcase what a passive rebel I truly am deep down where attitude counts. I'm thinking a characteristically rebellious slogan along the lines of: "Born to Snooze".

They do offer tattoos like that in the removable or temporary lineup don't they???

JeffH wrote:This one's two days old... Not cpap related, but old deadhead related.

Jeff, at first take I thought that bow might have been a CPAP hose. But a musical instrument makes way more sense for a Grateful Dead tribute. Congrats on your new work of art!

-SWS wrote:

JeffH wrote:This one's two days old... Not cpap related, but old deadhead related.

Jeff, at first take I thought that bow might have been a CPAP hose. But a musical instrument makes way more sense for a Grateful Dead tribute. Congrats on your new work of art!

Thanks...as it heals up it'll get clearer and easier to see.

JeffH wrote:This one's two days old...and it's spelled tattoo...LOL

Not cpap related, but old deadhead related.

Well Jeff, maybe your tattoo is apnea related. The primary cause of Jerry Garcia's death was sleep apnea.

There is also a line in the Dead's recording of Jack Straw that says, "Ain't no bed will give us rest, man,".

Yeah, it ain't the bed, you need the cpap.

And of course there is that untreated switchman in Casey Jones:

Trouble ahead
The Lady in Red
Take my advice
you be better off dead
Switchman sleepin
Train hundred and two
is on the wrong track and
headed for you

Funny, I just got my first tattoo on Sunday. Although I'll admit it never occurred to me to get something CPAP related.

Billmanweh wrote:Funny, I just got my first tattoo on Sunday. Although I'll admit it never occurred to me to get something CPAP related.

So how about a pic?

rooster wrote:

JeffH wrote:This one's two days old...and it's spelled tattoo...LOL

Not cpap related, but old deadhead related.

Well Jeff, maybe your tattoo is apnea related. The primary cause of Jerry Garcia's death was sleep apnea.

There is also a line in the Dead's recording of Jack Straw that says, "Ain't no bed will give us rest, man,".

Yeah, it ain't the bed, you need the cpap.

And of course there is that untreated switchman in Casey Jones:

Trouble ahead
The Lady in Red
Take my advice
you be better off dead
Switchman sleepin
Train hundred and two
is on the wrong track and
headed for you

Pretty impressive GD knowledge there, Rooster.

Yea, 'ole Jerry didn't do worth a damn taking care of himself and the world is a lesser place because of it. I knew SA complications got him, along with diabetes and addiction. Me and him have alot in common except he played guitar WAY better than I could ever dream of...LOL.

Tattoo is the skeleton playing the fiddle on the cover of the "Blues for Allah" album. Guy named Ishmael did it. I'll probably get on W and Dick's terrorist watch list for saying Allah and Ishmael in the same posting...

i have two
neither are cpap related
but one represents protection and healing, so indirectly, i guess it is!

oh, and nice tatt, jeff, that musta cost a bomb!

I have 5 tattoos.
The only one cpap related is a heart with my
fiance's name and information like bday and the day he died.
I guess it is cpap related in the sense he died from sleep apnea.

SHOW us your tramp stamps!!!

JeffH wrote:....

Pretty impressive GD knowledge there, Rooster.

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I only saw them in concert once, in 1974, but I have been a fan since the mid sixties. GAD, that is over forty years!

It tickles me to see 14 year old kids downloading their music.

Once I sold two-thirds of my LPs when I relocated years ago. The only Grateful Dead LP remaining is Vintage Dead a live recording at the Avalon in SF, 1966.

rooster wrote:

JeffH wrote:....

Pretty impressive GD knowledge there, Rooster.

.......

I only saw them in concert once, in 1974, but I have been a fan since the mid sixties. GAD, that is over forty years!

It tickles me to see 14 year old kids downloading their music.

Once I sold two-thirds of my LPs when I relocated years ago. The only Grateful Dead LP remaining is Vintage Dead a live recording at the Avalon in SF, 1966.

I saw them in Oct of '73 first time. That concert is now Dick's Picks #19 and a month or two after than show, there was a big write up in Rolling Stone about that show. Second and third times were in the 80's at the Zoo Amphitheater in OKC and the last time was April Fools Day 1995 just before Jerry died in August of that year.

I miss them, but play there music most days and have about 5 hours worth on my mp3 player for walking.

rooster wrote:I was just looking at some cool tattoos on the Discover Magazine site, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/ ... -emporium/.

It got me to thinking that surely some of our members have tattoos to honor their cpap equipment or designate themselves as cpap patients. Care to share a photo with us?

You got me to thinking.... I don't know if you remember when I first got my machine that I took off for the restroom with hose attached and drowned it? Well, when I left the DMEs with my nice new A-Flex, I hugged it like it was a childhood teddy bear. How much weirder is a tattoo. I could get AFLEX tattooed on my bicep - people would think it's a power weight lifter thing )))