It has come to my attention that some of you have not actually seen the music video for Ghengis Khan by Miike Snow so I've taken it on myself to end your ignorance of this piece of cinema
At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes
Hey friends! If you get diagnosed with sleep apnea and you have health insurance (even shitty health insurance) don't worry! It's a condition that's relatively easy to manage, even if you're poor, and I'll walk you through it.
Pre diagnosis: if you have a neck circumference greater than 16-17 inches, it raises your chances of being diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. This means that you stop breathing for periods of time during your sleep, resulting in poor sleep quality and over time has the potential for more serious issues. Obesity is a risk factor, but you don't have to be heavy to have sleep apnea. If you sleep with someone, they probably already know if you have sleep apnea (it sounds like snoring with periods of not breathing, and then coughing/choking). If you sleep alone, there are recording apps you can use overnight that highlight any instances of sound for you to listen to in the morning.
Diagnosis: Once you suspect sleep apnea, you can bring it up to your PCP as a concern. They'll refer you to a sleep specialist, and they'll conduct a sleep study. Depending on your insurance, this can be at home or in a lab. If they conduct it at home, they'll send you a small machine attached to two pads that will go on your chest and a finger pulse oximeter. This will collect your data throughout the night about your REM cycle, your heart rate, and your oxygen. (I can't speak for the lab sleep study, but I had no copay for the machine) The specialists will examine the results and then send you a prescription for a CPAP machine, mask, and tubing.
Your insurance will rent out the machine to you for a premium every month. The machine will monitor the amount of time you wear it and send this information back to the specialists and the insurance. You are required to wear it for a minimum amount of time every night and a minimum amount of nights each week. If you fail to meet these requirements, your insurance can deny coverage for the machine, which for most people means they won't be able to afford it and they'll be charged for the full price. If you go on vacation, have an irregular sleep schedule, or have a difficult time adjusting to wearing a mask, these can all contribute to not meeting the minimum hours. The amount that my insurance quoted me for the first 6 months was $1200, and after that amount of the minimum requirements of 6 hours 5 nights a week were met, I would then own the machine.
Don't freak out! You don't have to do all that.
Call the sleep specialist and ask them to send you a hard copy of the prescription for the CPAP machine. They will try to get out of this. My office told me twice that if they sent me the prescription then the insurance wouldn't cover all the supplies I need. I had to be persistent and call back and ask for them to send it again. Once they email you the prescription, buy a second-hand machine off Facebook marketplace or craiglist (you might even be able to find someone offering one for free on a Facebook buy nothing group, or you can make a group post searching for one). It took me a few months of searching to find one I could afford, but there's a good market for them, either from people passing away or upgrading. They retail new for 400-1200, so people can get away selling them for a couple hundred bucks. I lucked out and found an excellent bipap machine, but you don't need a fancy, modern Bluetooth CPAP. Any old working machine will do.
Do not use second hand masks or tubes. These can have gross bacteria. Clean the entire machine with disinfectant, inside and out. Consider replacing the water chamber if it came with one. I bought all of my masks and tubing new on a CPAP supply website, which cost about $100, but they're mine forever. You can find people selling sealed, unused bulk supplies on FB, etc.
CPAP vs BIPAP: a BIPAP is just a slightly fancier version of a CPAP that offers two different air pressures for both inhalation and exhalation. It's okay to wait a little while after getting the prescription until you can find a machine you can afford (you've had untreated sleep apnea this long, you can wait a little longer), but after you get a junker, you can always upgrade to a better one in the future and treat your condition.
Using the machine: look up a manual online for your specific model. Look up a YouTube video for how to plug in your prescription. There's a whole bunch of settings, and options to store the data it collects in a USB/SD card.
Buy distilled water. Don't use tap, bottled, mineral, or spring water.
Different types of masks: there are masks that cover your nose and mouth, masks that cover only your nostrils; different types of headgear that go around your whole head or just your ears, and you might find different types more or less comfortable. The tubing is universal.
It's less loud and less uncomfortable than you think to adjust to. I suggest taking some Benadryl the first night just to get used to sleeping with something on your face. The quality improvement might be so significant that you won't mind the lifestyle adjustments. You can even buy small models of cpaps that are meant for travel. If you don't have hundreds of dollars to throw at insurance, it's better to buy one outright so you own it and no one can take it. You're supposed to replace your tubing/masks every 3 months, but if you take care of your equipment and clean it, you can probably stretch it a little longer.
Feel free to ask/dm/reply if you have any questions! Go forth and sleep better!
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.
However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.
That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.
In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.
Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.
It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)
And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower
And held a bike race
For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a spiraling marketplace
But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.
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My store is open for US customers until the 12th of July!^^ Sticker restocks, new prints, and dollhouse arsonist and sketch book avaliable for preorder!! I’ve tried stocking requested proucts so I hope it’s all good:)
#they have so much storage........... literally like filling eclairs#i know they dont need to chew but they don't even swallow either omg
They have crops! Most (but not all) birds have a pouch at the top of their eosophagus where they can hold a whole bunch of food, kind of like a hamster holding food in its cheeks. This allows them to eat very quickly and then get somewhere safe, or in the case of babies, be fed a lot of food all at once. They will slowly swallow the potion of shut the fuck up over time, and when they run out, they will once again Scream.
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