Readit NewsThe mechanical sound of breathing, the mask getting stuck in my long hair, the intentions posture and breathing form… and dear mercy the pooling moisture on my face.
I shaved a sick beard for it. I stopped sleeping with my partner. It was a saga that I had tried a decade earlier with the same outcome.
Ultimately it turned out that simply staying hydrated and adding a little incline to my mattress is all it took. My O2 concentration has held steady and the snoring has stopped. I’ve taken my alcohol consumption down to near zero, and I have to imagine that helped as well. My weight and body fat have been pretty stable throughout.
I’ve kept my gear in case I have an occasion to try it again. Also they wouldn’t take it back and have got legislation passed to ban CPAP resale. Maybe one day I’ll get around to hacking on an IoT smell-o-vision project and have a decent use for the thing.
I’ve also been experimenting with a slightly elevated mattress recently, it seems to help quite a lot for my OSA.
Create fun games to play in these flights.
The games available are usually poor and slow.
Is it a technical limitation such as too many screens and not enough processing power to go around?
Or maybe no good HID (Human Interface Device) controllers? Touch-screens should be okay, especially for turn-based games, but maybe continuously pushing your finger against the screen would make the person seated in front angry after some time?
Perhaps Management doesn’t realize that video games are a popular thing?
Or is this just too much of a first-world problem and not worth the effort from the airline companies?
I’d love to see games like Rogue, X-Com, Sopwith, Jagged Alliance, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Myst, Vampire Survivors, and so on, available to play at 30,000 feet.
Maybe the airline could have these games hosted on their wifi network for downloading and playing in the browser of your personal pocket computer instead?
Made me laugh.
They are lesser known than CPAPs but are much simpler and way less invasive. They’re often well suited for people who are thinner and/or have milder OSA symptoms.
I couldn’t use a CPAP but using a MAD has helped significantly (although perhaps not completely).
But the type-checking could be a command line parameter, used only during development.