Like, he wasn’t sleeping at all. 
I also have/had severe sleep apnea. Why I am not dead I do not know. However, I'm alive, and I can tell you that the cpap machine changed my life. Went from a state of "can't drag myself out of bed in the morning and ready for bed 10 hrs later" and needing naps and struggling to keep awake when the driving to 7 hours a night makes me chipper and a nap is an occasional luxury.jez wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 10:48 pm Did a sleep study earlier this month. It was at home, which was nice. Just had a nose thing to measure my breathing, a finger thing to measure pulse and oxygen, and some kind of thing strapped to my chest. Probably to measure movement and gather data from the nose and finger things. Well, go the results today.
I have severe sleep apnea. Seems I had obstructed breathing, or stopped breathing, about every 3 minutes or so on average. Which would explain why I'm always so freaking tired.
As soon as the insurance company makes up their mind, I'll be getting a cpap. I hate stuff on my head and face when I sleep, so I'm thinking it might take some getting used to. Any advice for other users of these contraptions?
Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:02 am I have sleep catnea - interrupted sleep due to cat sleeping with me. Does that count?
Wishing you the bestest!
I resemble that remark.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:02 am I have sleep catnea - interrupted sleep due to cat sleeping with me. Does that count?
Wishing you the bestest!
I don't know what brand you'll get or if you'll have any choice, but I use a ResMed AirSense 11. I bring it up because it has the most "nothing" mask I've ever used. There's a single 1/4" wide elastic band that goes around the back of my head. The back of it is split into two horizontally so you can have one part go up at the top of your head and the other at the bottom, but I never use it that way and it stays in place just fine on me. It connects to a hose that holds 2 nasal pillows at the front. That's it. One pillow rests at the end of each nostril and blows air up your nose. After the first couple of nights, I never noticed the nasal pillows again. They were so easy to adapt to, and there's no risk of air leaking out from the top of the mask and drying your eye out while you sleep (I had that happen with a full face mast I used ONCE an it was horrible, I couldn't open my eye until we flooded it a bunch of times with artificial tears to losen it up.)
We went for a ride,
I’m all for that. I recently got a pair. I’ve had high frequency loss my whole life.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 10:51 amOff TopicI'm getting to the point I'm going to have to break down and get one. Turns out 30 years of transcription/headphones is not good for the ole ear holes. When the time comes, I'll probably start a thread for advice, por favor.
New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds
City is sinking approximately 1-2mm each year on average, worsening effects of sea level rise and flooding threat
Oliver Milman
Fri 19 May 2023 09.30 BST
New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.
The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers.
This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average as the world’s glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes strengthened by climate change.
“A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in New York City,” researchers wrote in the new study, published in the Earth’s Future journal.
The authors added that the risks faced by New York City will be shared by many other coastal cities around the world as the climate crisis deepens. “The combination of tectonic and anthropogenic subsidence, sea level rise, and increasing hurricane intensity imply an accelerating problem along coastal and riverfront areas,” they wrote.
This trend is being magnified by the sheer bulk of New York City’s built infrastructure. The researchers calculated that the city’s structures, which include the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68tn lbs, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-crisis
he's in good company - Rachel Maddow,, but Sarah Huckabee?
Oh I get that. And myself being the only child (grandchild) of my grand parents. When grandpa passed. It wasn't the playing of Taps that got me -- it was that damn 21-gun solute --it is brutal. My body shook as the series of 3 rounds were fired off. 14yo neon having to comfort a widow as that flag is folded and ceremoniously handed to her as we sit in the front row at the graveside.MsDaisy 2 wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 6:42 pm I can’t say that I ever saw a bumper sticker that actually made me bust a tear before, but I saw one today. It said
“Those that disrespect the flag have never been handed one.” It sure struck my heartstrings. My dad’s flag is on my bookshelf in a little triangular glass case beside my sister’s ashes. My dad is on Eisenhower Drive at Arlington National. He served 32 years in the Army Air Corps/Air Force.
Read more here...What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. ...
This is timely for me. I’m reading 1984 right now, and Brave New World is up nextkeith wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 2:07 amRead more here...What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. ...
This is from facebook. I can't figure out how to link directly to the post, but this goes to the content (I hope).
remember that 1984 takes place after an atomic war, where England no longer exists. It is "Airstrip 1" and has become a "security State". also, Winston reads TWO of the three parts of "Goldstein's" book. Chapter three, "Freedom is Slavery" is Winston's story of how he progresses from the "servitude" of having a Will of his own to surrendering it to the Will of the StateMaybenaut wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 8:38 amThis is timely for me. I’m reading 1984 right now, and Brave New World is up nextkeith wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 2:07 amRead more here...What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. ...
This is from facebook. I can't figure out how to link directly to the post, but this goes to the content (I hope).
PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers in metro Phoenix are approaching a milestone in their financial pain from a 2013 racial profiling verdict over former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns: In roughly a year, those ongoing costs will exceed a quarter of a billion dollars.
The bill is projected to reach $273 million by the summer of 2024, officials were told Monday before they approved a tentative budget that included $38 million in legal and compliance spending for the racial profiling lawsuit during the coming fiscal year.
A decade ago, a federal judge concluded the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office had profiled Latinos in Arpaio’s signature traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, leading to massive court-ordered overhauls of both the agency’s traffic operations and its internal affairs department.
