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Futhermore, I am out here for purely personal gain. It makes me feel good to help people, to educate people, and to make peoples lives better.

There are better ways to do this..............your attitude totally obliterates your stated purposes.

Your posts are the essence of a troll: inflamatory, provoking, extraneous, argumentative, and long...

If you really want to contribute productively, lose the attitude and verboseness...it's the only way you'll even begin to meet your stated purposes.

Be nice, and take a verbal fast.

Less is more.

I'm done. Stated my point.

If you don't like me, leave me alone. Obviously there are people out there who realize that 1) I made a mistake with my first post and 2) that I am trying to make ammends.

For those who don't realize the above, please, by all means, leave me alone.

I never insulted anyone, never said anyone was wrong (at least without examples of why I felt that way). Other posts not revloving around this topic have been short, concise, to the point, with my professional and personal opinion.

I have stated my case, nothing further needs to be said.

TYVM.
xerort

scrapper wrote:Nothing personal Madalot, but you have the wrong ends of the cats in the sink...............best if you hold the other ends under the water until they quit wigglin'

Must be a law somewhere..........

Don't take it personal.........

(PS Unfortunately I do have a "used" cat in the house, it joined our household after it wasn't fitting in at a relatives...............Really though, I'm just a big talker--but truly not a great fan of the critters................)

17+ years ago, my husband HATED cats. But I had one and he allowed me to bring it into the home we made together. He's learned to love them and now we have FIVE of these critters!!

No worries -- I took this as kind-hearted teasing.

xerort wrote:OH good. Glad so well was the last post on my post.

Just want to point out that I never insulted you, so don't insult me.

Also, the title of the post is "In my defense", thus, it was a post about defending myself.

Futhermore, I am out here for purely personal gain. It makes me feel good to help people, to educate people, and to make peoples lives better.

So yes, I am here out of selfishness I guess you could say.

If you have an issue with me, please, feel free to never comment on one of my posts again.

xrt

Hi All

I remember a book I read many years ago by Mark Twain. It had a tale to tell that goes something like this -

There were two men taking a walk by a river on a Sunday afternoon. Suddenly they heard shouting, and saw a man in the river being carried downstream, waving his arms and shouting for help.

The younger of the two men immediately jumped into the river, swam over to the drowning man, grabbed him and brought him to the river bank. A crowd gathered round to help the half-drowned man, and to praise the rescuer.

As the two men resumed their walk, the younger man said "You know, I am not a hero at all. If I had not jumped in, I would have felt ashamed and cowardly, so I really had no choice but to rescue him".

And I think that some of us, including me, would be impelled at times to do and say things with a similar motive. What xerort forgets is that any advice has to be receivable, otherwise it is useless, and can easily cause resentment.

So let us at least applaud the honesty of xerort, even though we think he is wrong about some things, and invite him to learn from the experience of the Forum.

cheers

Mars

Nice post Mars!

scrapper wrote: but you have the wrong ends of the cats in the sink...............

In my defense, I want'a be a kitty and sleep in the sink.....


...but will probably never get that chance because I change my pressure,
just because I can.

robysue wrote:Nice post Mars!

A little too "Swiss" for my taste.

SleepingUgly wrote:...In Georgia, it's against the law to keep a donkey in a bathtub. [Muse, we promise we will visit you in jail!]

Shhh!!! Dont' tell anyone, they haven't caught me yet!

Muse-Inc wrote:

SleepingUgly wrote:...In Georgia, it's against the law to keep a donkey in a bathtub. [Muse, we promise we will visit you in jail!]

Shhh!!! Dont' tell anyone, they haven't caught me yet!

Well, if the police come knocking, just flush the donkey down the toilet...along with your Clinician's Manual.

SleepingUgly wrote:

Muse-Inc wrote:

SleepingUgly wrote:...In Georgia, it's against the law to keep a donkey in a bathtub. [Muse, we promise we will visit you in jail!]

Shhh!!! Dont' tell anyone, they haven't caught me yet!

Well, if the police come knocking, just flush the donkey down the toilet...along with your Clinician's Manual.

Ha, I was going to say forget the donkey, worry about your self set machine!

quote="SleepingUgly"]...In Georgia, it's against the law to keep a donkey in a bathtub. [Muse, we promise we will visit you in jail!][/quote]
Shhh!!! Dont' tell anyone, they haven't caught me yet! [/quote]

Well, if the police come knocking, just flush the donkey down the toilet...along with your Clinician's Manual.[/quote]


xerort"

Ha, I was going to say forget the donkey, worry about your self set machine!

OMG, we have a name? aha, we are cult of "self setters" and we must be saved!

I just KNEW there was some reason you were here.. Dont tell me youre a missionary, and you pulled the short straw?

In Kentucky: "You may beat your wife with a stick no thicker than the thickness of your thumb unless she consents to it."

You just know some BDSM loving woman put that last line in. "Unless... unless she permits it. Put that line in."

It is not illegal to change the pressure settings on your machine. I was told by the California agency regulating RTs that you are entitled to provide self care, including adjusting your pressure, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3765 of the California Business and Professions Code which provides:

3765. This act does not prohibit any of the following activities:
... (b) Self-care by the patient or the gratuitous care by a friend or member of the family who does not represent or hold himself or herself out to be a respiratory care practitioner licensed under the provisions of this chapter.

This same state agency told me that the RT could show me how to change my settings and that I could report them if they would not.

As far changing my pressure being dangerous, my sleep specialist doesn't have a problem and at one time when I had another machine he wrote a prescription for the DME to show me how to change the settings.

What I find interesting is that doctors are generally pretty relaxed about self medication while technicians are typically very uptight about it.

Kevin G. wrote:It is not illegal to change the pressure settings on your machine. I was told by the California agency regulating RTs that you are entitled to provide self care, including adjusting your pressure, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3765 of the California Business and Professions Code which provides:

3765. This act does not prohibit any of the following activities:
... (b) Self-care by the patient or the gratuitous care by a friend or member of the family who does not represent or hold himself or herself out to be a respiratory care practitioner licensed under the provisions of this chapter.

This same state agency told me that the RT could show me how to change my settings and that I could report them if they would not.

As far changing my pressure being dangerous, my sleep specialist doesn't have a problem and at one time when I had another machine he wrote a prescription for the DME to show me how to change the settings.

What I find interesting is that doctors are generally pretty relaxed about self medication while technicians are typically very uptight about it.

hehe- wrong thread man.