We tape our lips shut and experiment with velcro and elastic and even panty hose tied around our heads and faces. We swamp our equipment providers and the internet with orders for the latest greatest mask. We spend $175 on tht new mask and promptly replace 90% of it with pieces of our old masks because "it'll make it work better". We endlessly debate the merits of cpap vs. apap vs. bipap. We smear our noses with sexual lubricants. We wash our faces with soap made for newborns. We fret about what we look like in our gear. "Does this mask make me look fat?" We take secret pride in having a higher pressure or AHI than our friends. And through it all we support each other.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I hope this stupid mask don't leak.
If I should die before I wake,
Please throw my cpap in the lake!

    

Pantyhose, huh? I never thought of that!

:::runs off to see if I have any old L'eggs hanging around in my dresser drawer:::


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Brian wrote:

We tape our lips shut and experiment with velcro and elastic and even panty hose tied around our heads and faces. We swamp our equipment providers and the internet with orders for the latest greatest mask. We spend $175 on tht new mask and promptly replace 90% of it with pieces of our old masks because "it'll make it work better". We endlessly debate the merits of cpap vs. apap vs. bipap. We smear our noses with sexual lubricants. We wash our faces with soap made for newborns. We fret about what we look like in our gear. "Does this mask make me look fat?" We take secret pride in having a higher pressure or AHI than our friends. And through it all we support each other.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I hope this stupid mask don't leak.
If I should die before I wake,
Please throw my cpap in the lake!

Now that is funny, creative, and clever, your CPAP is obviously doing its job    


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~~~Tammy~~~

Quote:

And through it all we support each other.

And somehow that helps make it all worthwhile.


Thank you, Brian!

sleepyjean


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Cheer up, sleepy Jean
oh what can it mean
to a daydream believer
and a homecoming queen.

The Monkees

         Soooo true Brian


.....Well except for the part of spreading sexual lubricants on my nose
I use that for other things.....

As usual you have totally hit it right on the head!  I love that poem, I think I will make a poster of it for my room!!

Madre


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Brian,

What a great thing to read and start a weekend off!  You have come a very long way since your first post my friend!!

Vicki


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That which does not kill you makes you stronger-Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich must of had apnea.

Brian, I stand amazed. When I saw the lead line I thought of a very old song "The Things We Do For Love" or "What I'd Do For Love". Madre, the poster idea is on it.  I think I'll do my room with the poem written in TALL Caligraphy-type lettering around the perimeter (you know like they do nurseries now?  BTW, Brian, my FlexFit should be here Monday.  Wish me luck.  JuJu

You are too funny Brian. I love the poem too!

Rachel


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Rachel

Funny post...thanks

Brian-That poem was really funny,Man. Thanks!
-Rapunzel111


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Masks are like a box of chocolate-
You never know what you're gonna get !