Cheers, Randolph. My GP, perhaps coincidentally quoting Dr McCoy on 20th
century medicine, says that in years to come CPAP machines will be seen as
'barbaric', however, that view is not shared in hospital respiratory
clinics, where concern for patients welfare seems to have been superseded
by an overwhelming love of the Great CPAP. It's rather like talking to
fast-food managers about their menus.
A friend who works as a charge-nurse tells me of whole wards full at night
of patients strapped under the machines, which each make a noise like a
fridge overheard in a kitchen, which is fine if it's a door away but not so
fine if it's sitting on your face. And even less fine for those who are in
a whole ward full of the same.
I have to say I have observed it is also lacking in aphrodisiac effects.
Life's horrors though, sometimes, do have their antidotes: I have just
successfully sat through the last part of the Eurovision song contest,
Jedward and Engelbert and Azerbaijan and all, serenely reading Wordsworth:
" Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable touch of Time. "
Grasmere, douze points.
Best
David
On 26 May 2012 18:24, Randolph Healy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That sounds really terrible, David. The CPAP machine is like something
> devised by torture chamber suppliers.
> Good to see you joke, even at Pat's expense.
>
> best
>
> Randolph
>
>
>
>
> On 25/05/2012 12:46, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> This is painful to read or hear, Chris, but also of some interest to me. I
>>
>> have symptoms very like those covered by CFS, in my case diagnoses have
>> taken the form of 'fibromyalgia', (not established), COPD (established)
>> and
>> obstructive sleep apnea (established) plus a helping of other nomenclature
>>
>> like 'supraspinatus impingement' and that old favourite
>> 'osteo-arthiritis'.
>> All of those together, like system of bad rivers, produce what is very
>> like
>> the descriptions of CFS I've read. But, still, in my case, they do not
>> lead
>> to a cure, rather instead to minor palliative treatments (ironically these
>>
>> include the Australian invented CPAP machine, which is rather like a
>> mini-vacuum cleaner, which I have to wear on my head each night :) and
>> which provides some relief but not that of the panacea it is touted as
>> over
>> here).
>> My suspicion, in both your case and mine, it is a matter of there being
>> undiagnosed factors at work, my own doctors have just put me through
>> another round of blood-tests, but looking at the history of CFS I notice
>> that it's early reports, such as Royal Free Disease, seem to be of a viral
>>
>> nature, environmentally viral at that, and I wonder if there's not
>> something like that at work. I know that pneumonia has multiple causes,
>> including viral, and pneumonia is what my 'exacerbations' develop into if
>> not caught by antibiotics in time ( I have become a very alert watcher of
>> the horizon.
>> Either that or, in case some wonder if this has nothing to with poetry,
>> I'm
>> suffering from the effects of reading snaps by Patrick every week since
>> 2003, which could explain things :) - I couldn't resist that - you keep
>> fighting man
>>
>> care
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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