How Long Can We Live?

imsleepynomore wrote:I I hope to live a long time I'm 666 pushing 67 next month...

Is this a little like saying, "she's 13 going on 30"?

pollyanna40 wrote:Ewwww im 40yrs and the thought of using it till im older, well the rest of my life!! well it just "Freaks me out!!! grrrrrrrrrrr...(im 4wks into treatment) Mad!!! :{

It's the half-empty/half-full thing. You may be freaked out and mad.

As for me, I am extremely grateful to have sleep apnea and have to live with a machine. I could have had cancer and have to live with chemo and extreme pain and after all that, still die early. Or I could have had diabetes and have to limit my appetite and poke myself with a pin and insulin every day for the rest of my life. Or I could have something that confines me to a wheelchair and I'd have to be restricted on everything that I do and cannot do. Now those are things that freak me out.

As for 40? I am 52 and I wish I could have been diagnosed in my 40's, because then I could have spent those years feeling great instead of missing out on things and damaging my body because I wasn't breathing or sleeping right at night. I envy you for finding out so many years earlier.

With sleep apnea, I can still live a normal, full life with no restrictions other than having to put a silly mask on for 8 hours of the day. If this is the worst that happens to me in my life, then I am extremely blessed.

Kind of related to this, there was a news article in the last couple of days that was kind of unusual.

It said that the first person who will live to age 150 was (statistically speaking) born recently.

So ... they can get a new machine every 5 years. That's going to drive the insurance companies nuts.

xyz wrote:Kind of related to this, there was a news article in the last couple of days that was kind of unusual.

It said that the first person who will live to age 150 was (statistically speaking) born recently.

So ... they can get a new machine every 5 years. That's going to drive the insurance companies nuts.

I'm one old codger (85th birthday last month) who has been on XPAP for over 4 years and hope to stay on it for many more. Part of my mental exercise is trying to figure out how to improve my therapy in the absence of informed professionals.

ameriken wrote:

pollyanna40 wrote:Ewwww im 40yrs and the thought of using it till im older, well the rest of my life!! well it just "Freaks me out!!! grrrrrrrrrrr...(im 4wks into treatment) Mad!!! :{

With sleep apnea, I can still live a normal, full life with no restrictions other than having to put a silly mask on for 8 hours of the day. If this is the worst that happens to me in my life, then I am extremely blessed.

Well said, ameriken!!

I think of my using a CPAP at night as being no more "big deal" than using my K-Mart reading glasses in the day. I'm a CPAP user when I want to breathe during sleep. I'm an eyeglasses user when I want to read a book, a menu, tiny print instructions, cpaptalk on the 'puter, groom a dog, look up a phone number, etc.

Gee, now that I think about it, I probably use glasses more than I do a CPAP, and I use CPAP every single night.

Will happily be using both for the rest of my life, and sincerely wish I could have started one of them back in my twenties (but it wasn't invented then.)

Well Nobody know how long he or she will live in this world because Life and death in not in our control . God knows well how long everyone has to live here .

jerainey, you rock!

jerainey wrote:I'm one old codger (85th birthday last month) who has been on XPAP for over 4 years and hope to stay on it for many more. Part of my mental exercise is trying to figure out how to improve my therapy in the absence of informed professionals.

Jarainey, You're my new Hero!

Xena and Jabman u r both right!! i know,im just coming to terms with it all,im getting there i really am...Jobman r u a christian by any chance?? lol..i am to,A Spirit filled born again Christian..lovin God all the way!! (even if i did take the fact i had sleep apnea hard) just a lil downward slide in my walk,but im trusting God!! whatever will be will be!! x x

pollyanna40 wrote:Ewwww im 40yrs and the thought of using it till im older, well the rest of my life!! well it just "Freaks me out!!! grrrrrrrrrrr...(im 4wks into treatment) Mad!!! :{

Your post reminded me that I passed the two year mark in June without even giving it a thought. I used to have some of that same I-have-to-do-this-every-day-for-the-rest-of-my-life freak-out that you describe, but those thoughts faded. I hope it all becomes natural for you after a while.

Ameriken,yep when put like that,there r people worse!! i can throw a lil pity party though,a tiny one!! hahaha iv been Health and joyful and postive and life and soul all my life,iv had 4wks of feeling sorry for myself,but im ok now!! joining this site mega helped,if u look at my very first post,iv defo come along way!! will stay postive from now on x x x Promise x x

Glad you have the Lord in your life as well, we gotta do everything we can to stay positive! Good luck!

Aww Thanks,nice to meet brothers and sisters in Christ x x

pollyanna40 wrote:Xena and Jabman u r both right!! i know,im just coming to terms with it all,im getting there i really am...Jobman r u a christian by any chance?? lol..i am to,A Spirit filled born again Christian..lovin God all the way!! (even if i did take the fact i had sleep apnea hard) just a lil downward slide in my walk,but im trusting God!! whatever will be will be!! x x

LOL, Polly! I could have written this post