Be sure to check your hose before sleep

A dedicated hose dryer would shorten drying time; removing some temptations--Maybe it was thirsty.

For a long time I was putting a knee high stocking over my mask, maybe when something similar happened to someone on here before. Got lax about it. Let me find that stocking.

gvz, your earwig-in-the-hose story is great, but at least I know how to prevent that. It reminds me of another situation I encountered a couple of months ago that I don't know how to prevent, but maybe someone has some ideas.

This is a centipede-in-the-bed story. One night as I was sleeping, a centipede crawled into bed with me, up around my face. Ugh. I quickly flicked it out of the bed, but it managed to sting me on the way out. This was not one of those little centipedes, this was a medium-sized one, about 4 or 5 inches long. The sting of a centipede is not fatal but very, very painful. Yeeeouch! It hurt for days. It felt sort of like a jellyfish sting, if you've ever been stung by one of those.

I couldn't go back to bed until I found that thing and killed it. It was hiding under the bed, ugh. I had to crawl under there and get it. They are not easy to kill. Then I had to look around to make sure there weren't others hanging out with it.

For weeks after that, I had to take the bed apart and remake it every night, and inspect the whole room before I could get to sleep.


How fast can you get out of bed and away, detaching from your machine? I'm pretty darn fast, apparently, but I also believe that someone needs to design a "quick release" so I can get the heck out of there a lot faster.


Anyone know how to prevent a centipede from getting into bed with you?

DoriC wrote:LoQ, good idea about the knee high! Done!

I bought some knee-highs to make a pop filter for a microphone. I've still got some extra clippings of that somewhere around here... It is an excellent idea.

Or you could go to a womens' shoe department and get some of those temporary ankle-length hose things for trying on shoes...

Karen, does this sound like something for padacheek.com: elastic-ended hose-end covers partly made of hosiery material?

Too funny. That happened to me this summer. A earwig crawled into my mask. I guess they are attracted to the moist environment.I put it on in the dark and didn't know about it until it walked across my nose! Mask went flying. Got up lights on, got rid of the earwig and checked everything out. No more bugs, but forget sleeping. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't stop thinking about it. Needless to say I check my hose and mask every night. Haven't found another, but....

Guest wrote:Yikes! This is why I use knee-high hose to cover the ends of the tube when not in use.

Great inexpensive idea!! A piece of stocking with a rubber band and problem solve...
Thanks !!



Phil

from gvz's chat last night:

[gvz] 11:47 pm: it was the Darth Vader of earwig bugs.
[calist] 11:48 pm: Apparantly he's my father
[gvz] 11:48 pm: I know! My first thought was: I'm going to freak the hell out of the cpap board.
[gvz] 11:48 pm:     
[midnightowl] 11:48 pm: yeah. nothing like a picture.
[gvz] 11:48 pm: it really did touch a nerve.
[gvz] 11:48 pm:     
[gvz] 11:49 pm: calist, Earwigs give birth to Trolls? Doah! heheh.
[calist] 11:49 pm: lol

from gvz's chat last night:

[gvz] 11:47 pm: it was the Darth Vader of earwig bugs.
[calist] 11:48 pm: Apparantly he's my father
[gvz] 11:48 pm: I know! My first thought was: I'm going to freak the hell out of the cpap board.
[gvz] 11:48 pm:
[midnightowl] 11:48 pm: yeah. nothing like a picture.
[gvz] 11:48 pm: it really did touch a nerve.
[gvz] 11:48 pm:
[gvz] 11:49 pm: calist, Earwigs give birth to Trolls? Doah! heheh.
[calist] 11:49 pm: lol

GVZ,

Did I start that exchange? I admit I dropped into chat just to yell at you about freaking me out - I figured if I was up late with horrible bug in hose images running around my head - I should at least share my misery!

But I *guess* you did me a favor. There's nothing like a picture to get me to finally implement my anti bug strategies that I've been planning since I first read about somethng similar here at cpaptalk.

Midnightowl.

That was completely uncalled for GVZ! He was just minding his own business, inspecting the hose. YOU HAD NO RIGHT to manhandle him in that fashion.

gvz wrote:Hello,

Was about to plug in for the night, and noticed a little dark spot inside my hose. And it was moving.

Turns out, a little friend decided the inside of my hose would be a fun place to hang out.

Reminds me of the "Wrath of Khan"

When I clean my hose, I use the hand held sprayer in the shower and the spray on the narrow setting is pretty strong. Sounds like a Brett Favre email. But I have lots of hoses hanging up in the closet, as I am sure most of you do too. You can't cover them all with sran wrap because the moisture might cause mold and that may be worse than the bugs.

--So that's what an earwig looks like.
Never seen one before.

This thread is disturbing on so many levels.

Earwigs are something I do NOT miss about Texas. I think I've only seen about 1 or 2 here in Central NY in the 6 years I've lived here.

1-2 a day would have been normal in Texas.