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*sniffle* Boy! Do "I" feel unloved and unwanted. This was all "my" idea. I'm the one who stole UncleBob's thread. "sob" I guess I'll slither off into the sunset and go eat worms. Or greasy, grimey, gopher guts. *whimper*

Ooops, Slinky, forgive my failing memory! I DO remember that you were involved. No problem. We can fit you into the research design easily! You'll receive either CPAP or sham CPAP to elucidate the extent to which a placebo effect is associated with CPAP use. Please do not use your CPAP the night before your first night with us, as there are some studies that indicate that, for no reason that I can fathom, CPAP effects may last one night after they are discontinued.

Boy, I wish Elena hadn't left us for a hair clip. It would have been so much fun having her ramsacking the lab trying to find a scissors to cut off her underwear.

I do think we need one more subject to test the hypothesis that a chin strap alone may be therapeutic. For this condition we will use three types of "chin straps": (1) The $119 neoprene chin strap, (2) the ever popular papcap, and (3) the even more popular and versatile pantyhose! Any volunteers?

Actually we could really use yet another subject to test the efficacy of CPAP vs. an expensive mandibular advancement device vs. the $1 Walmart boil-and-bite mouthguard. Any volunteers for that condition?

P.S. Muffy, how many beds do you have in your lab? Are we running out of space?
P.P.S. What kind of mattresses are these? I hope firm.
P.P.P.S. Also, I hope we can't hear anything from room to room, as I've had sleep techs tell me that I would wake up every time the lady in another room would snore. Or maybe we should just have an exclusion criteria of no snorers in this experiment. (I'm sure that will generalize well to a typical apnea population.)
P.P.P.P.S. One more thing, don't even think of sneaking a pea under my mattress.

OutaSync wrote:McSnoresalot is pretty funny, at least when he is sleeping!

This is true, and his wife seems to have a good sense of humor, so I'm sure she won't mind if he travels across the country to entertain 4+ women in their pajamas.

In my excitement I almost forgot the experiment that I've wanted to run from Day One!!! We need normal, healthy controls from whom to derive norms for APAP!!! If we could find out what kind of data "normals" produce on APAP, it won't be long before we can actually use APAP to diagnose OSA.

Please enroll your "normal" spouses with broad jaws, whose lateral and central incisors are visible from the front, to be our controls. NO SNORERS!!

SleepingUgly wrote:P.S. Muffy, how many beds do you have in your lab?

Let's see...picturing it in my mind, but it's been a long time ago...there are 3 sets of bunk beds in each of 4 rooms. Big foyer accomodates six cots. Each bathroom has space enough for the mattress on the floor for the shorter subjects. Couple of sleeping bags in the storage room. Hammock slung up here and there. PLENTY of people can participate!

SleepingUgly wrote:Are we running out of space?

Not by a long shot! Did I mention all the extra space under the tech desks for those whose preferred sleep position is lateral-fetal?

SleepingUgly wrote:P.P.S. What kind of mattresses are these? I hope firm.

You're the perfect candidate for one of the sleeping bags. Get your reservation in early!

SleepingUgly wrote:P.P.P.S. Also, I hope we can't hear anything from room to room, as I've had sleep techs tell me that I would wake up every time the lady in another room would snore.

Hey, this is a state of the art place with well trained techs. There's an ample supply of pillows with snoreproof covers that they place gently over the faces of the more raucous snorers. You won't hear a thing.

SleepingUgly wrote:P.P.P.P.S. One more thing, don't even think of sneaking a pea under my mattress.

After the third round of the yummy double cocktails they serve during hookup, you'll sleep so soundly there could be a cantaloupe and you wouldn't notice it, SleepingBeauty!

That's totally funny!

P.S. I booked this ukulele orchestra for our message board's first annual Ladies-and-Muffins Pajama Rama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s

Now to find a chef who doesn't mind cooking late-night western spaghetti at raucous sleepovers... I meant scoring hypopneas at quiet, snack-free sleep studies. What was I thinking?

SleepingUgly wrote:One more thing, don't even think of sneaking a pea under my mattress.

No prob, there's a separate staff bathroom.

Slinky wrote:*sniffle* Boy! Do "I" feel unloved and unwanted. This was all "my" idea. I'm the one who stole UncleBob's thread. "sob" I guess I'll slither off into the sunset and go eat worms. Or greasy, grimey, gopher guts. *whimper*

At least you didn't turn your 9430 posts into dots.

-SWS wrote:P.S. I booked this ukulele orchestra for our message board's first annual Ladies-and-Muffins Pajama Rama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s

They're actually pretty good!

Dots? Turn all my posts into dots?? Surely, you are NOT serious!!!! My posts are all too interesting, fascinating really, scintilating even!!!!

NotMuffy wrote:

SleepingUgly wrote:One more thing, don't even think of sneaking a pea under my mattress.

No prob, there's a separate staff bathroom.

OutaSync wrote:

NotMuffy wrote:

SleepingUgly wrote:One more thing, don't even think of sneaking a pea under my mattress.

No prob, there's a separate staff bathroom.

NotMuffy, as I well remember insists everyone should use a spilling checker diligently. But that pea obviously passed under the radar....


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no... that was not one of my typos.

Slinky, do you forgive my memory lapse? To make it up to you, I'll let you have my Sleeping Beauty sleeping bag. It's been washed since the time Muffy snuck a pea in it.