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jnk wrote:Carbonman always has such a nice way of letting me know when I'm wrong.

....that is not correct.....
what I said was that your analysis for dialectical simplicity was
in general, by and large, mainly an exact approximation of what Gary was saying.

carbonman wrote:

jnk wrote:Carbonman always has such a nice way of letting me know when I'm wrong.

....that is not correct.....
what I said was that your analysis for dialectical simplicity was
in general, by and large, mainly an exact approximation of what Gary was saying.

I think you just proved my point!

Nicely done.

jnk wrote:

carbonman wrote:

jnk wrote:Carbonman always has such a nice way of letting me know when I'm wrong.

....that is not correct.....
what I said was that your analysis for dialectical simplicity was
in general, by and large, mainly an exact approximation of what Gary was saying.

I think you just proved my point!

Nicely done.

We're a good team.

Okay, I'm going to spoil all the fun by asking a serious question. So, after reading the post from CM to JNK from February, does that really mean that I will one day be the person I thought I used to be?

raggedykat wrote:Okay, does that really mean that I will one day be the person I thought I used to be?

'kat, in all seriousness, I hope so.

I can only speak for myself....it is happening for me.

Stay the course.
Stay on top of your therapy.
Believe.

carbonman wrote:

raggedykat wrote:Okay, does that really mean that I will one day be the person I thought I used to be?

'kat, in all seriousness, I hope so.

I can only speak for myself....it is happening for me.

Stay the course.
Stay on top of your therapy.
Believe.

The key, 'kat, may be in Carbonman's present tagline:

carbonman wrote:"If your therapy is improving your health but you're not doing anything to see or feel those changes, you'll never know what you're capable of. -I said that."

I interpret that to mean, at least partly, that when we feel better, we have to DO something about it other than simply enjoying feeling better. PAP gives us some of the tools we desperately needed to take our lives back, but it is up to us to use those tools now to the benefit of our future lives. If we still make the same choices we made before PAP, out of habit or inertia, we won't get the full benefit. But if we, on the other hand, invest the days and hours we feel good into doing things that will allow us to reap a future dividend, we will be that much better off physically, mentally, and emotionally.

That means, in my opinion, if we have a good day today and use it being more active and eating well and making changes in our entire decision-making process in doing the right things for ourselves and others, we may reap, maybe, 10 good days or more from that one invested day, somewhere down the line. If we spend today doing the same things we did when we couldn't breathe at night, we are spending our earnings as fast as we get them.

Carbonman is a motivation to all of us to spend our benefits wisely on paying it forward, not just to others, but to ourselves too.

Ride on, Carbonman, ride on.

jeff

"It's amazing how easily you become what you never thought you would be"



Four guys from the cpap "Class of 2008"

raggedykat wrote:One night I had to make a trip to the bathroom so I took my mask off and laid it on the nightstand. When I got back I put it on and started the machine and immediately felt something pinging around inside the mask and hitting my face. All I could think of was a spider and I freaked - ripped the mask off, started jumping up and down, turned on all the lights. I never did find out what it was but now I have this fear of something being in my mask and check it every time before I put it on.

This is hilarious just visualizing it....to have had a video of it would have been priceless!!

Jnk aka Jeff - yeah something like that sort of if you know what I mean kinda yes.