Anyone see the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday night? During his Headlines segment, he made fun of an ad for a Breeze mask and a GoodKnight machine. He made a comment about how could wearing a mask like that let anyone sleep better. Guess we should "educate" Mr. Leno about our sleeping disorder. This is not equipment that you buy from a catalog mailed to your home. It is a medical device. I generally find Headlines pretty funny, and can only guess that Jay Leno doesn't know someone with this condition.
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CPAP on Jay Leno
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CPAP in movies and TV.......
That brings up an interesting point...has anyone ever seen CPAP use in the movies or on a television show?
I sure haven't.....
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harikarishimari
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Re: CPAP on Jay Leno
it lets us SLEEP.mousetater wrote:He made a comment about how could wearing a mask like that let anyone sleep better.
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MandoJohnny
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Mixed Reaction
On one hand, if Leno had showed a picture of a pair of leg braces and made a joke about how something like that could make anyone walk any better, he would have gotten blasted in the media. He could have been more sensitive.
On the other hand, I want to have a positive attitude about OSA and part of a positive attitude in my mind is being able laugh at myself and my imperfections, including my OSA. I have to say that Leno was just saying what I have been thinking looking at all the pics of these different masks. You gotta admit, some of them look pretty bizzare and some of them are downright funny at first glance.
On the other hand, I want to have a positive attitude about OSA and part of a positive attitude in my mind is being able laugh at myself and my imperfections, including my OSA. I have to say that Leno was just saying what I have been thinking looking at all the pics of these different masks. You gotta admit, some of them look pretty bizzare and some of them are downright funny at first glance.
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I'm with the let 'em laugh crowd. Hell, if I didn't laugh at it I would cry about it. My OSA doesn't make me a victim, why on earth would I care what Jay Leno did, or didn't say about it, on TV or otherwise? Besides, I look at it and wonder how on earth it makes me sleep better and it doesn't always.
You have to admit, interface, headgear, chinstrap, tape and hose is either pretty frightening or pretty funny. I go for the latter.
David
You have to admit, interface, headgear, chinstrap, tape and hose is either pretty frightening or pretty funny. I go for the latter.
David
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Ya know....
....when you laugh at comedians who make fun of others, sooner or later they come after you.
In a way, I'm glad of the publicity, positive or negative.
I have a friend who is a very severe stutterer. Howard Stern used to employ Stuttering John (now of Leno) to go out and do celebrity interviews - partially because he would do ANYTHING that he was told to, no matter how outrageous, and partially because Howard thought that John's voice sounded funny.
I asked her how she felt about it and she said, "I get tired of people shying away when I talk and when I get caught on a word - they get a pained look on their face and avoid talking to me because they act like it is painful for me to talk to them and they are doing me a favor by not talking to me. Since Stuttering John has become popular I have noticed that more people listen through my stuttering more and they don't think of me as a freak anymore - the publicity helps. Having John out there as a person helps. In a lot of ways, I'd rather have them laugh at me than get that pained look. But I find that I'm more accepted now than I have been before, and I thank stuttering John for a lot of that."
I have a problem, OSA. It is not serious to me because it is correctable - and because I have taken the steps I can take to correct it - I can wear a machine at night that provides the support I need to have normal sleep, I'm one of the many who can get good correction of the problem and who, by wearing a support machine, has an incredibly good quality of life (by comparison).
And, you know something? The damn machine is funny looking, and the headgear is hilarious. No getting around it. First time I put the mask on my (then) wife fell on the floor laughing. My friend the stutterer spent the night once and I walked out of the bedroom with my mask unhooked at the hose and the headgear on to get a drink of ice tea and she looked at me and said, "T-t-t-t-take me t-t-to --- your leader!" and then she burst into laughter.
Someday, I will have to sleep during a hurricane, say, at a shelter. I'd prefer it if I were not the first person that the children had ever seen asleep in a CPAP.
Snoring is funny, too. Just the way it is. Lots of things we do as a matter of course, as humans, are funny as hell when isolated and emphasized. Some of these things are associated with sleep apnea. Wish that the whole syndrome was something you read about in books because everyone was corrected and it was just amusing history, but we are not there yet.
Yep, Jay Leno's writers are ignorant. Then again, the comment is,
"How many people have trouble sleeping?"
"Well, this device will help you sleep better,"
"You'll fall asleep right away with this thing strapped to your face!"
Those are likely all true statements - but, well, guess what - the very last question I responded to was one from someone who has problems with, probably, falling asleep with something remarkably like that thing strapped to her face.
Be nice if they could figure out how to make the whole mess less claustrophobic and more attachable - if the device COULD work more like an O2 cannula, it might be easier for everyone to deal with. Supposing it just clipped to your nostril and inflated a bit to lock in and it was not so big or cumbersome - maybe it would treat people better.
It is a joke, but like many jokes, it contains an important element of truth. Give me higher pressure hose and a diffuser and digital feedback to operate the diffuser and a pressure sensor in the hose so that thin tubing like O2 tubing was all that was needed, with the pressure reduction in your nostril, with everything up the nose and a seal to the nostril that did not require headgear - just something that inflated and locked in - and I think that potentially some people would find that setup to be a better option, just because they would not have to have a huge thing strapped to their head.
Personally, I think the real problem is that when you put all that makeup on and grease back your hair, you worry about getting it messed up and that worry keeps you awake. I mean, look at that guy - he doesn't look like he is ready for sleep, he looks like he is ready for a photo shoot. And he is frowning because he just knows that the headgear is gonna mess up his hair - and because his friends will all have a picture of him in - GAK! pyjamas!
And there is one more problem - it would work a lot better IF HE CONNECTED THE MASK TO THE MACHINE!! I mean, the hose just ends up at the top of his pillow almost out of frame and the other end of the hose is probably somewhere on the floor. You hook that machine up and it will work a LOT better!
In a way, I'm glad of the publicity, positive or negative.
I have a friend who is a very severe stutterer. Howard Stern used to employ Stuttering John (now of Leno) to go out and do celebrity interviews - partially because he would do ANYTHING that he was told to, no matter how outrageous, and partially because Howard thought that John's voice sounded funny.
I asked her how she felt about it and she said, "I get tired of people shying away when I talk and when I get caught on a word - they get a pained look on their face and avoid talking to me because they act like it is painful for me to talk to them and they are doing me a favor by not talking to me. Since Stuttering John has become popular I have noticed that more people listen through my stuttering more and they don't think of me as a freak anymore - the publicity helps. Having John out there as a person helps. In a lot of ways, I'd rather have them laugh at me than get that pained look. But I find that I'm more accepted now than I have been before, and I thank stuttering John for a lot of that."
I have a problem, OSA. It is not serious to me because it is correctable - and because I have taken the steps I can take to correct it - I can wear a machine at night that provides the support I need to have normal sleep, I'm one of the many who can get good correction of the problem and who, by wearing a support machine, has an incredibly good quality of life (by comparison).
And, you know something? The damn machine is funny looking, and the headgear is hilarious. No getting around it. First time I put the mask on my (then) wife fell on the floor laughing. My friend the stutterer spent the night once and I walked out of the bedroom with my mask unhooked at the hose and the headgear on to get a drink of ice tea and she looked at me and said, "T-t-t-t-take me t-t-to --- your leader!" and then she burst into laughter.
Someday, I will have to sleep during a hurricane, say, at a shelter. I'd prefer it if I were not the first person that the children had ever seen asleep in a CPAP.
Snoring is funny, too. Just the way it is. Lots of things we do as a matter of course, as humans, are funny as hell when isolated and emphasized. Some of these things are associated with sleep apnea. Wish that the whole syndrome was something you read about in books because everyone was corrected and it was just amusing history, but we are not there yet.
Yep, Jay Leno's writers are ignorant. Then again, the comment is,
"How many people have trouble sleeping?"
"Well, this device will help you sleep better,"
"You'll fall asleep right away with this thing strapped to your face!"
Those are likely all true statements - but, well, guess what - the very last question I responded to was one from someone who has problems with, probably, falling asleep with something remarkably like that thing strapped to her face.
Be nice if they could figure out how to make the whole mess less claustrophobic and more attachable - if the device COULD work more like an O2 cannula, it might be easier for everyone to deal with. Supposing it just clipped to your nostril and inflated a bit to lock in and it was not so big or cumbersome - maybe it would treat people better.
It is a joke, but like many jokes, it contains an important element of truth. Give me higher pressure hose and a diffuser and digital feedback to operate the diffuser and a pressure sensor in the hose so that thin tubing like O2 tubing was all that was needed, with the pressure reduction in your nostril, with everything up the nose and a seal to the nostril that did not require headgear - just something that inflated and locked in - and I think that potentially some people would find that setup to be a better option, just because they would not have to have a huge thing strapped to their head.
Personally, I think the real problem is that when you put all that makeup on and grease back your hair, you worry about getting it messed up and that worry keeps you awake. I mean, look at that guy - he doesn't look like he is ready for sleep, he looks like he is ready for a photo shoot. And he is frowning because he just knows that the headgear is gonna mess up his hair - and because his friends will all have a picture of him in - GAK! pyjamas!
And there is one more problem - it would work a lot better IF HE CONNECTED THE MASK TO THE MACHINE!! I mean, the hose just ends up at the top of his pillow almost out of frame and the other end of the hose is probably somewhere on the floor. You hook that machine up and it will work a LOT better!
Funny or not, at least the person in that picture from Leno's show had a mask ON.
Ironically, on the Respironics site (advertising their new M Series), they show a nice pretty girl sleeping with NOTHING on her face. HELLOOOOOO??? (What are we advertising?)
http://mseries.respironics.com/home.asp
Personally, I don't watch Leno OR Letterman.
Den
Ironically, on the Respironics site (advertising their new M Series), they show a nice pretty girl sleeping with NOTHING on her face. HELLOOOOOO??? (What are we advertising?)
http://mseries.respironics.com/home.asp
Personally, I don't watch Leno OR Letterman.
Den
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Personally, I don't blame Leno for saying what he did in jest. I don't think he was making fun of the people who have to wear it, but rather how absurd-looking the mask is, stating what would seem like the obvious.
I think we need to lighten up and not take things so personally. If he said something to the effect of, "What kind of a moron would wear a contraption like that," I could see getting upset over it. But making fun of something that, to the layman, would look like it would disturb sleep rather than help it, nah. It does carry some weight, too, if you think about it. How many of us had trouble sleeping with that thing on our faces until we got used to it? And like they say, there is no such thing as bad PR. The more publicity this disorder gets, the better. I say make everyone aware of it and then hopefully someone will perhaps come up with a new and improved way to treat it. Not necessarily Jay Leno, but...
I think we need to lighten up and not take things so personally. If he said something to the effect of, "What kind of a moron would wear a contraption like that," I could see getting upset over it. But making fun of something that, to the layman, would look like it would disturb sleep rather than help it, nah. It does carry some weight, too, if you think about it. How many of us had trouble sleeping with that thing on our faces until we got used to it? And like they say, there is no such thing as bad PR. The more publicity this disorder gets, the better. I say make everyone aware of it and then hopefully someone will perhaps come up with a new and improved way to treat it. Not necessarily Jay Leno, but...
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