When Technology Outfronts Law

[DJD]

I like that. I wonder what's the best size shot to down a drone at 100 yards.

I read where one town is talking about passing an ordinance making it LEGAL to shoot down flying Drones.

I'm not really looking forward to having these things flying around above my head all the time. It's bad enough having full sized helicopters and space satellites watching us 24/7 these days.

I just completed a sleep study where they video taped me sleeping last night. Drooling and all my snoring were captured on film or digital equipment. They have Infrared Lights shining down from the wall onto my bed and three cameras in the room. One was pointed straight down at my bed and the other two were the black dome type where you can really see where the camera is pointed. Now why do they need those in the room? The only safe place to be in the room was the shower where from what I could tell there were no camera's. At least none visible to me. And I checked too.

The sad thing is that they never could get my face mask to fit right and kept waking me up about every hour to fix the leaks in my face mask. Don't ever do a sleep study without putting up resistance. I don't think that stupid doctors know what the hell they are doing. I've snored all my **** life and it's not killed me yet. Now my doctor is telling me that my sleep apnea is going to kill me. BS I'm thinking to myself as he looks at me and keeps a solemn face telling me that I have sever sleep apnea and could die from this. This is my second sleep study. The first one they hooked my brain up with about 10 wires along with 2 chest straps and 3 EKG wires to monitor my heart and wires on my eye to monitor how many times my eyes twitched while I was sleeping. Oh and then there are the wires on the legs to monitor for restless leg syndrome. Yea right! All this for a mere $3000 per night per study. And the C Pap or Bi-Pap machines cost about $3000 to $5000 dollars per machine. Then there are the face masks, hoses, filters and straps you have to buy. It's no wonder health care is in need of reform. People have snored and lived for 80 Plus years without a stupid sleep study and all the assicated costs.

And at the end of the night around 5 am they come in an say that I'm still having too many sleep events and that they need to keep the air flow higher. Then as the study is suppose to end at 5:30AM because they have shift change of personnel at 7 am they wake me up at 5:15 AM and tell me that I have central sleep apnea and they may not be able to fix it with the machines that they used in the study.

So now I have to go back to the medical supply place and have them try to fit me with another mask that will glue to my face and take the higher pressures needed to make me stop breathing at night.

A sleep event is when one stops breathing for more than 10 seconds.

I'd like to see these medical people do a sleep study on a hibernating grizzle bear some day. That would be interesting.

Next thing you know they will have tiny drone flying around in our bedrooms at night doing more sleep studies so that the hospitals can drum up some more hard cash from us and our insurance companies. No thanks.

I won't want them in my back yard nor my bedroom. It's bad enough that they have all these hidden cameras on every building these days and at every stop light too.

My neurologist sent me to a sleep wellness center last week and I took a small device home with me as opposed to sleeping in the room at the office. I had a chest strap and a finger sensor which were hooked up to the small device. I had a nose and mouth sensor as well. I slept like 3 hours that night (I usually sleep 3-4 and hardly ever continuous. I'm a walking zombie most of the time anymore but anyway they read the data and said I need the mask at night. I'm really not sure if it will work because I sleep so light and anything irregular will hurt my sleep. I may just start taking a shot of whiskey before bed and see how that works.
man I was told the same things about sleep apnea and the risk of all the potential health problems. Good luck !!!

[kygorski]

after working rotating shifts all my life, I cant remember ever having an 8 hour sleep. The past 4 years have been hell. have a non functioning bladder, I usually self cath 3 times a night. BUT I've been retired foralmost 20 years. I sleep when I want to, as long as I want. My life was affected by my work schedule, and developed my own sleep rhythm.

[waterdog101]

I work 10 hour shifts, go to bed at 9: pm get up at 4:30 am. sleep good and snore loud, in fact I snore so loud, I awake myself sometimes. and don't want any Doctor messing with my snoring, if I'm not snoring, I'm not resting good.

[Bonefish]

If you find yourself having apnea duing your sleep time, it truly can cause serious health problems. The severity of the problems will depend on other underlying coditions one may have. If you are not breathing, you are not exchanging pulmonary gases as you should, thus not getting oxygen to vital organs such as your heart. Low oxygen levels in heart tissue will affect electrial conductivity of the heart. However, most people suffer subpar activity during their produtive times of the day because they feel tired. The last thing l would say is, try to pick your doctor and sleep apnea clinic very carfully. You must have confidence they stay updated and know what they are doing. They must be able tailor a workable treatment plan just for you and includes equipment be confrontable and efficient.

[bassin_bug]

My neurologist sent me to a sleep wellness center last week and I took a small device home with me as opposed to sleeping in the room at the office. I had a chest strap and a finger sensor which were hooked up to the small device. I had a nose and mouth sensor as well. I slept like 3 hours that night (I usually sleep 3-4 and hardly ever continuous. I'm a walking zombie most of the time anymore but anyway they read the data and said I need the mask at night. I'm really not sure if it will work because I sleep so light and anything irregular will hurt my sleep. I may just start taking a shot of whiskey before bed and see how that works.
man I was told the same things about sleep apnea and the risk of all the potential health problems. Good luck !!!

In July of this year, my son had a sleep study because he snored and would awake every morning tired and sleepy. In August, during the night he awoke with severe chest pain and was rushed to the hospital. He had never had chest pains. A cancer the size of a golf ball was found in the center of his heart and was removed; he also has cancer in both lungs, his thyroid, and blood vessels. His medical bills are nearing $1 million and he is taking one medication twice a month that costs $32,000 per dose and that isn't the chemo. He has 2 months more of treatments and is improving.

A few years ago my cousin had sleep apnea and slept with a C-pap machine. His wife went in to awake him for work and found him dead with the machine on his face and still running. He was 47 years old.

My mom had sleep apnea and would scare the crap out of me when she would hold her breath for 10 seconds or longer. She had surgery for an ulcer, lost about 40 pounds and the snoring and sleep apnea just stopped. The doctor couldn't understand that one. I wonder if the medical community really knows what causes it or if there is a way to cure it.

[Bonefish]

Most of time people who have a lot fat tissue around their epigotis have this problem. It puts a lot of pressure on the larynx. When someone sheds weight, the apnea can stop. People who have pulmonary disease can have apnea and be at or below normal weight.

[DJD]

In July of this year, my son had a sleep study because he snored and would awake every morning tired and sleepy. In August, during the night he awoke with severe chest pain and was rushed to the hospital. He had never had chest pains. A cancer the size of a golf ball was found in the center of his heart and was removed; he also has cancer in both lungs, his thyroid, and blood vessels. His medical bills are nearing $1 million and he is taking one medication twice a month that costs $32,000 per dose and that isn't the chemo. He has 2 months more of treatments and is improving.t.

Glad he is improving Bug. 32k per dose???? What??? Tell me that was a typo!!!! Omg...

[bassin_bug]

Glad he is improving Bug. 32k per dose???? What??? Tell me that was a typo!!!! Omg...

NO! It wasn't a typo. I wish it was. He told me a few days ago that, if this continued much longer, he was afraid he would have to file for bankruptcy. He has Blue Cross-Blue Shield Federal insurance and isn't sure how much they are going to pay
on his bills.

The insurance won't even discuss the medication that is $32k per dose until the doctor calls the manufacturer. He has to give
them a report on the success (or lack of) and they have to call the insurance company and approve payment. It's a screwed up mess but they deny that it's a new research medication and swear that it is one of the best.

I told him that he is too sick to even have to look at the bills; to put them away in a box until the insurance company pays
their part and then he will know exactly how much he will owe.

A couple of years ago he bought a mountaintop in a beautiful place. He cleaned it off and built a new house on the very top of the mountain. Nobody lives close to him and, with all the wildlife it looks like heaven on earth. Any angle we look from we can see all kinds of wildlife and some of the largest deer I've ever seen. I would hate for him to have to sell his house to pay his medical bills.

I worry what the new Obamacare is going to do to the insurance system. The first of November I had surgery to remove a Squameous Cell cancer from the side of my face and had 12 sutures. Thank God there is no cancer left in my face. I had a reminder call late yesterday afternoon telling me my appointment was at 3:15 pm today (to remove the last 2 sutures) and to bring the money to pay for both surgeries. Duh! They haven't even filed my insurance claim but are demanding payment TODAY. I can afford to pay it but I'm not going to pay until I find out how much my insurance is going to pay. I thought that Tulane Dermatology would have had more class than that; it's affiliated with Tulane University and my doctor taught there for 25 years. If I pay all of the bill today and then the insurance pays, I wonder if I would ever get a refund for overpayment.