1. That baby is adorable.

The funniest thing is that in most pictures Asahd looks like he’s totally over it. Like, okay, dad, take your picture, it’s only the 500th today. It’s so precious.

My dad has sleep apnea and thank god he is treated for it! I also think my husband suffers from it but here in France it isn’t really discussed.

You have to sleep on your back? Fuck, I better never get apnea.

I have the same model -- resmed full mask with humidifier. The seal starts out fine, but then after I fall asleep I guess I move, and the mask unseals, and it’s all downhill from there. I’ll call the sleep lab Monday and see if they can re-fit me, but I already have the smallest mask. Did you get used to it…

If the air is getting in your eyes then the mask isn’t sealed properly. Does your monitor the mask efficiency for you? If not call your doctor to have them refit it for you or find another design. I have a very long hose and the machine is quiet to so don’t have any issues. At least with that!

You should: my father has one, and found it totally life changing. Undiagnosed sleep apnea can be the secret source of countless symptoms, mental and physical, which people have had for years or even decades.

You need to learn to tune out the background noise of the machine so your body sets it as normal. Though the severety of your sleep apnea can probably affect the urgency of this. In my case my apnea is pretty severe and without the machine I don’t sleep so much as pass out due to lack of oxygen. Now my body associated…

A friend with terrible sleep apnea couldn’t use the mask (he kept ripping it off in his sleep), but he found something new that’s like a retainer that shifts the palate so it doesn’t slide back and block your airway? Something like that. It was expensive, but it has completely changed his life.

I didn’t like it at all at first, but I started really feeling a positive effect the next day when I wore it and THAT is why I kept wearing it. Soon enough I was used to it and now a few years later I can’t easily fall asleep without it.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea last year at 51. Having the sleep apparatus has me waking up chipper and clearheaded after eight hours in bed/7 hours of sleep vs 9 hours in bed/4 hours sleep. I have lost 11 pounds, my cholesterol is down to a healthy level. It’s been a game changer. If you have a loved one who snores…

I was in a mixed gender group, discussing politics a few years ago, when a guy who was unable to support something he’d said about political correctness to a woman in the group completely lost it and snapped “Oh, you are an argumentative little thing aren’t you.” It was so obviously an attempt to silence her, that I…

Also, to add facts, hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus. A hysterectomy is the removal of someone’s uterus. These misogynists need to go fuck off.

I’m dropping this in here (and will expect to add it to Barf Bag later):

After that embarrassing nonsense from McCain with the Comey nonsense, he really should just ride off into the sunset. Instead, he insists on just showing how inept he is and how much he’s lost it.

Weak insecure hacks like Lord and Miller will always see a competent and relentless woman as “hysterical.”

Precisely. She sounded like a prosecutor cross examining a hostile witness. Which is exactly what he was.

Seriously, what the fuck is McCain even doing there if he’s not on the committee?!

Precisely.

Kamala Harris is the only Senator on the judiciary committee who’s an actual prosecutor. This seems to especially bother John McCain (who’s been sitting in and interrupting her despite NOT being a member of the committee).