Biguglygremlin

I planned to get some clear hose and kept putting it off then I decided I didn't need any. A simple bucket is all it takes to measure raw pressure output and, from a cold start, at least 2 out of 3 of my CPAPs are up to pressure prior to adding the mask.

I'm not sure if they maintain it with different power supplies or after several hours of fluctuating power and heat but hopefully, they will. I'm thinking that I should take any weak links, like power gangs, out of the equation.

Then there is the query as to how to ensure sufficient airflow because, in my world, it's possible to sustain pressure in an enclosed space without any assurance of airflow.

An hour after writing the above comments my CPAP tried, one final time, to kill me, and when that failed, it simply refused to function anymore.

I'll have a little party to celebrate my victory, but then I think some kind of farewell is warranted, after all, that CPAP's been my arch-nemesis for several years now, but I'm not sure what would be an appropriate send-off.

Where do old CPAPs go to die and how does it impact the elephants?

You all know how much I love my CPAP right?

Well, this looks like just too good an opportunity to implicate it in yet another crime.

Based entirely, of course, on scientific data and conclusive research! (Or blind prejudice and guesswork.)

I supposedly had diverticulitis for the first time several months ago and it nearly put me in hospital and even Metamucil, despite it's universally restorative powers, was barely able to save me.

So it would suit me just fine to be able to blame my CPAP!

Now let's look at the hard evidence.

Normal people, that's people who are not condemned to using CPAP machines, are permitted, even encouraged, to move around freely and unencumbered during their sleep.

While us CPAP victims are shackled to that noisy machine lurking on the bedside table and pinioned by our mask and hose and constricted by a plethora of straps and clips and weighed down by a perpetual awareness of bondage and restraint aggressively enforced by things that hiss at us if we dare to move the wrong way thereby increasing the risk of diverticulitis.

Obviously, my CPAP could be implicated just on that basis alone.

But wait! There's more!

My CPAP spends the entire night enacting an evil plot to turn me into a balloon by pumping air down into the digestive system!

Air that causes discomfort and escalating tension and pain!

Air that causes frequent disruptions in the digestive processes!

Air that invokes pain, causing the digestive system to constrict, once again increasing the risk of diverticulitis.

My Cpap is looking more guilty by the minute!

So what, you say!

Lots of foods cause flatulence.

Did I mention AIR?

Air, containing oxygen.

Oxygen is quite a different thing from methane or whatever other gasses are produced naturally during digestion.

Oxygen is not supposed to be in the digestive system in such vast quantities.

Oxygen feeds the wrong monsters, starts the wrong processes, multiplying and escalating significant risk factors, including diverticulitis.

So, in conclusion, I don't think we can blame the butler when all the evidence points clearly to my CPAP!

Now, where did I put that reference article?

The solution could be related to the daylight savings issue because, in my twisted world, daylight savings is simply a temporary adjustment of the time zone.

Would it be inconsiderate and tactless to laugh?

If so then my sincere apologies. :(

Resetting CPAP time and Daylight Saving Discussion

I've never bothered to set the time on my CPAPs which would be confusing if I ever looked at the data. What is disappointing is that the suppliers do not bother to set the correct time in the first place.

I had a phone for some years that I was using for work and it had a massive list of past messages. At some stage it glitched back to the year of manufacture but still showed the correct time so for quite a while I was getting no messages until I discovered that they were being chronologically sent back, prior to those hundreds of 'more recent' messages!

Licences and jobs can be adversely affected by an Apnea diagnosis in a number of countries across the globe so it is relevant to this forum.

For much of my life, I have been switching my driving license back and forth between states because in Australia vehicle licenses are our primary form of identification and the one license we are permitted has to be based in a single state.

With the last switch, the inclusion of Apnea invoked the full investigation, approval, and monitoring process that I have been concerned about for some time.

The outcome, for me, was inconvenient and costly but essentially has very little immediate impact on my license conditions but it did establish perpetual accountability and surveillance which is largely dependent on my regular doctor.

I'm not sure how that will play out into the future because I don't have a 'regular doctor'.

It is frustrating that these old presumptions, only one state, a single residence, a personal doctor, still persist in most official circles.

On the other subject raised above, (Insurance) having an Apnea diagnosis would probably impact on health and travel insurance but I couldn't see any reference on my vehicle or property insurance policies that they required personal health information although I imagine that if the licensing authorities were not informed the insurance company might take the view that the license was invalid.

Yes, it's not much to ask really.

But it can be a little confusing.

Just the simple things that seem so easy.

Like, which day should I do it?

Can I still do it the next day if I forget or is that too late?

What time of day is it supposed to happen?

Is 12:00 o'clock midnight pm or am?

How do I change the time on this stupid device?

Where did I leave the manual?

Do I change it forwards or backward?

What does that even mean?

What other devices have clocks?

Should I check on the appliances?

What about the fridge?

Does anyone remember how to reset this microwave?

I nearly forgot the air conditioner!

Do these earbuds know what time it is?

And that stupid alarm system!

I seem to remember installing some powerpoint timers somewhere.

Do any of my tools know the time?

How about the cars?

Could someone please help me find the garden sprinkler manual?

Did I forget anything?

Oh, there are some things at work!

Surely they can wait till Monday!

Did I leave something in a locker somewhere?

How about the devices on loan to family or friends?

Should I chase them down and reset them too?

What about my poor CPAP?

How do I access the menu again?

Didn't someone mumble that this would stuff up my CPAP data?

Should I risk changing it or shouldn't I? :(

Do I have to dig out the spare CPAP and reset that as well?

I don't remember how to change the time on this stupid thing!

Now, where did I put that manual?

How many things already know about daylight saving?

How will I know if they know?

Did they require permission?

How do I know if I gave them permission?

Why is the sun in the wrong place?

Why has MilkyWhite stopped milking?

Where's all this stress and anxiety coming from?

And now the vacuum cleaner's gone feral.

And the coffee machine's on strike!

And the sprinklers are having a revolution in the backyard!

I duck out for a coffee but I'm distracted because the car clock is flashing.

And there are so many confused pedestrians wandering all over the road!

Well, there were until I ran into them.

Because I was tired and distracted and worrying about my CPAP and poor MilkyWhite!

Anyway, after a very stressful day it's finally all sorted.

I can ignore the vacuum cleaner endlessly bumping into the china cabinet and pretend the sprinklers aren't still drowning the lettuces and snuggle up with my glitching CPAP for a good night's sleep, dreaming of Milkywhite in happier times.

Then, first thing Monday morning, everybody turns up two hours early for work!

But no. They're not early, I'm two hours late! How did that happen?

Wait!

Don't tell me I set those clocks wrong!

Do I really have to do this all over again? :(

What's this pain in my chest?

It's probably just indigestion from these messed-up mealtimes.

Nothing a warm cup of milk won't fix .............................

You're right Sierra!

I don't know why people make such a big deal out of it.

We really should do daylight saving more often!

But let's wait till we all have an Airsense 11 and milk in the fridge! :)

Adjusting to Daylight Savings

That was a pretty close vote.

Maybe the chickens held the balance.

What were the main issues?

Watching the sunrise over lunch in winter?

Getting the kids to bed while the sun's still high in summer?

Running out of milk because the cows are all lost and confused?

Seems to me that if you go a bit further north you could watch the sunrise, and set, over a leisurely lunch of poutine with caribou curds. (No cow's milk remember!)

Maybe they should have delayed for a while until the cows, and the neighboring districts, had made up their minds about where the sun should be in the sky.

So does this put you back to glitching CPAPs or was it actually a vote for permanent standard time?

Daylight saving! Of course! It's so obvious now!

History of Time

According to that Canadian article, daylight saving causes heart attacks and traffic accidents! Maybe that's the end result of deleting data.

Cows can be pretty dumb and all Queenslanders (Aussie State) swear that daylight saving stops the cows from milking.

All of these indisputable scientific facts make it highly probable that daylight saving would also glitch the CPAPs!

I read something to the effect that the best thing about ending daylight saving in Tasmania is that you get to watch the sunset over lunch. I guess that's even more true in Canada.

Do we finally have proof of alien abductions?

Perhaps it's just the printer running out of ink!

What happened to the clocks that stopped when the power went off, and the appliances that all started shouting HELP when the power came back on?

Maybe you are tougher or more impervious than you think!

You might not need that much oxygen to support a good coma!

Yet, in spite of Occam's razor, you choose the most complicated posit!