Posts Tagged With: CPAP

The Great Latch Hook Project – Part 8

Posted on April 27, 2024 by pauldelancey

I just finished solved a rather ugly mess with my CPAP company. I’ve decided to and been forced to take more care of my body lately. I’m taking two exercise classes a week. I am getting a back massage once a month and I will be taking a yoga class once a week once my back is up to it.

Last Latch-Hook update saw adverse winds preventing the penguins from invading the rest of the world. The penguins, alway a fractious lot, got bored waiting to board their invasion armada. Tempers flared. Words that couldn’t have taken back were said such as, “Your mother is a communist vegan.” Face slapping escalated quickly. Two penguin demagogues emerged. The one-time cute critters took sides. Penguin civil war broke out. The lights have gone out in Antarctica.* We shall not see them again in our lifetime.”

Well, I know it’s winter in Antartica so there are no lights anyway. Let’s just take this sentence as a powerful metaphor, shall we?

Anyway, I’ve done 94+ out of 113 rows. Here is the work so far.

4/27/2024 Latch hook #8

 

 

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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Hurricane Hilary Thoughts From Poway, California

Posted on August 20, 2023 by pauldelancey

1. I’m glad that Hurricane Hilary wasn’t at all terrifying in Poway, CA.

2. It’s prudent to make precautionary measures in advance of a hurricane.

3. Not driving during a huricane is prudent. So is making plans to stay inside. Closing your windows to keep your carpets and furniture from being soaked from possible rain that comes down in sheets.

3A. However, it is prudent to drive away from your home if you live in valley subject to flash floods.

4. Buying up all the toilet paper, water, and canned food goods the day before the expected hurricane is just plain hysteria. Did none of you read about the expected severity of the hurricane? Did you look at any forecasts? Well did you? Did you think ravioli, cleanly wiped butts, and water were all that stood between you and a looming Southern California apocalypse?

5.  Full disclosure here. Yesterday, I was at the supermarket gathering fresh ingredients for the tonight’s homemade ravioli. Also, I completely ran out of distilled water for my CPAP machine during the height of the COVID crisis. All drinking water was bought up. None left. All distilled water disappeared from the shelves. I woke up one morning with no distilled water for my CPAP machine.(Fortunately, a friend of a friend 30 miles away scored some for me. If I can’t run my CPAP machine, I will get much less sleep and the sleep I will get is much shallower. And there is always a small, if unknown, chance that I could simply stop breathing without the CPAP. So, I am incredibly dismissive and angry toward panic buyers.

6.  You can follow the path and severity of the hurricane by television, radio, and internet. They are quite good at that, really.

7. The hurricane was not bad at all in Poway. Honestly, I went through many much worse rains in Wisconsin.

8. What did I do today? I stayed inside and worked on getting better at making homemade ravioli.

9. News alert: The wind just knocked down a neighbor’s garbage can. Not to worry, Poway will rebuild.

10. I want to thank all of you who worried about me today. I realize that conditions here are often not clear thousands, or even hundreds, of miles away. I feel quite humbled and touched by your concern.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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Late Night Antics

Posted on January 13, 2023 by pauldelancey

Not again, please.

Last night I checked into the hospital at 7:30 pm for a sleep study.  It was my second one in nine years.

At 7:30 pm, I went into my room.

at 7:45 pm, someone knocked on my door. I said, “Come in.” No one did

At 8:00 pm, my nurse,  I’m not sure of my official title starting putting jelly and vaseline in my hair. Then she put electrodes, conductors on the jelly. Then a plastic seal went all over that. My neck was not neglected. All sorts of electrodes went there. She wrapped my chest and stomach in blue straps. This measured breathing or something. Electrodes or something else went on my feet and legs.

9:00 pm, she was done. “Go to sleep,” she said.

9:00 pm, except I didn’t. An electrode was placed on my finger to measure oxygen content in my blood. But she wrapped the wrapping stuff too light and hurt for the next two hours. Also, I had to try to sleep without a sleep-apnea machine. I don’t think I dozed for a few minutes. I was truly afraid that I wouldn’t sleep at all and that I would have to come back!

11:00 pm, she came back to rewrap my finger and to put me on a CPAP machine. I don’t know when I fell asleep.

6:00am or so, she came back to remove all the electrodes and stuff.

6:30am: She was done. She said I could now sleep in as long as I wanted.

6:50am: She came back for some reason.

7:150 am: Someone from the hospital blundered into my room.

7:30 am: Someone else from the hospital blundered into my room. He said he saw no sign telling him not to. There was.

7:35 am: I gave up and got dressed. I went home.

Don’t you want to party with me?

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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