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So a few months ago I complained to my doctor about chronic exhaustion, brain fog, inability to focus, and my Garmin watch never being happy about my sleep quality.

She ordered a lot of tests, then decided, almost as an afterthought, to send me to the hospital for a sleep study. Turns out I have sleep apnea (I have since learned how dangerous this is), and now I am in my first few days of trying out a c-pap machine at home.

So far, I find it interferes with my sleep, though it is giving me increasingly better and better sleep scores. But sometimes I feel like it is suffocating me, and every night I discover I have pulled it off and thrown it aside.

Every single time I have mentioned getting a c-pap machine to someone, it turns out that they or their partner also use one! Who knew this was so common?

So anyone else here using a c-pap? Care to share your experience?

I am seriously banking on this being life changing for me. Was it for you?

Tomatoes are prolific and gorgeous this year. Going to have lots of big ones. Have had one caprese salad so far and will do another tomorrow.

Also parsley, dill, and cilantro for herbs; bok choy, various kinds of lettuces, romaine, red leaf, butter, arugula; made an omelette with kale and chard from the garden this morning; and made a tabbuleh salad with the fresh chocolate mint. Also the nasturtiums are prolific this year and the flowers are great in salad.

@jon-nyc said in Rest in peace, Robert Redford:

Humphrey Bogart

It was Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, which of course was set in Morocco. Lauren Bacall and Bogart first co-starred in "To Have and Have Not" and maybe that was in Cuba? (I'm not sure, it was a tropical setting). They also co-starred in "Key Largo" which was in Florida, not Cuba.

So I think you are thinking of "To Have and Have Not" ?

Redford was so impossibly handsome. And a good guy, too. Such an icon that it seems impossible that he was mortal after all.

He was paid the wages of his own ideas.

Next topic?

I started making my own muesli because the premade stuff is so ridiculously expensive. It's super easy and I control the ingredients.

I buy the components bulk at natural grocers:

1 part rye flakes
1 part oat flakes
1 bag sliced almonds
equivalent amount of walnut pieces
1 bag apple juice sweetened dried cranberries
1 bag date pieces

Mix well and store in a sealed storage container

Breakfast is 1 cup of the homemade muesli mix plus:

Coconut milk, plain unsweetened yogurt, collagen powder, prebiotics powder, and fresh or defrosted frozen berries or half an apple chopped up.

It's very filling and sometimes I don't even need anything more to eat until late in the day.

Hey if it was good enough for Kissinger...

BTW, the accident you describe sounds much, much worse that the little rear-ender I had last fall. I mean, it's hard to believe you weren't seriously hurt, especially if the car was totalled. I was hit in the driver's side while driving my Volvo, 45 years ago, very similar to the accident you describe, and found out only years later that I had suffered a concussion.

I'm glad you are feeling okay. Sorry about your car, but boy we all would be much sorrier if it was you that was totalled.

Hi Bernard, I only just got home from a trip so only just seeing this. Please don't be in a rush to declare yourself uninjured. It's very common when in a car accident to go into a kind of shock that wears off slowly, sometimes over a few days. During that time your body kind of puts up a shield that keeps you from feeling much.

I was in an accident last fall, and at first thought I was just fine, physically. Within a week I found out I had severe lateral whiplash, and a few months later a back molar cracked and broke off--the dentist asked me if I had been rear ended, because that was what it looked like, from his experience. It was ten months before all symptoms from the accident were at last resolved. The other driver's insurance took full responsibility and paid for everything, including OEM parts for my nearly new Subaru Forester.

As for the business end of things, you can still file a police report and should, if you haven't already. Was this a hit-and-run? Did the other driver have insurance? It's his insurance company that is responsible, and so your insurance company will probably go after them, since you haven't put in a claim with the other driver's insurance.

You should be entitled to 100 percent coverage for every out of pocket expense you have had, including the cab, the co-pay on the car rental, your deductible, plus compensation for inconvenience and wear and tear on your nerves. I'd even send the a bill for the roses and the prosecca and call it compensation for the anguish their driver caused.

I'm not a doctor or an insurance adjuster, obviously. Just speaking from my own experience in my own jurisdiction. It may be different with your insurance and in your state. If NH has an insurance commissioner, it could be well worth your while to call that office and find out what your rights are.

oh joy. I've been on Medicare for 2 years now and have really loved it. Plan G: pay your 257 dollar deductible and then not another penny for anything that year. Of course that can't last. We in America aren't allowed to have nice things.

I love this!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B4Twt1v59/

There are two possible reasons, in my mind, why progressive politics haven't been more successful across mainstream America:

1. Americans, overall, are fairly conservative in their values.

2. So long as money rules our elections, the leaders the people actually want can't get elected.

A good friend of mine ran for Montana's lone House seat at least 20 years ago. He had been a very popular state Senator, and had become head of the EPA under Clinton. A highly respected guy, and well-known here. The opposition ripped him to shreds. He later told me that his experience taught him that it was impossible to successfully run for national office unless you become a whore. Our current Montana delegation certain proves that assessment.

The mainstream Democrats are also whores--just a more watered-down version of whoreishness than the Republicans. They also don't dare step out of line, for fear of losing their backers/funders.

Face it, late-stage capitalism is a failure and has destroyed our country. The corporations/oligarchs run it all. The people no longer have a meaningful voice in politics. If they did, we would have had Bernie Sanders as president in 2016. No wonder voters have become apathetic. They know their vote has become more and more meaningless.

People like AOC and Mamdami can only win in NYC. Do you see first water progressives winning anywhere else? I don't. Do you see the rest of the country becoming more like NYC? I don't.

What is fundamental to this problem is money in politics. We have needed deep election reform even long before the Citizens United decision--that decision just made it far worse.

Now the disenfranchisement of the electorate has gotten so severe, about all we can do is overthrow the government to get our voices back.

If someone has a better solution, I'm all ears.

I think Canada and the EU are going to have to take drastic action. If Putin is allowed to get away with this, Europe is next. The gasbag-in-chief is obviously completely useless. Quit including him in anything. Quit deferring to him. Pretend he doesn't exist and go save Ukraine. People have got to learn how to deal with narcissistic sociopaths. It's not by pandering to them.

@wtg for some reason that video won't play.

Mary Anna, any drug store or convenience store or bodega or gas station should sell them.

In Montana, it is considered rude to use your horn unless it's truly an emergency. I can tell how many tourists are in town when I hear car horns.

That is terrifying, Bernard! I'm sure glad your horn works! I think Jodi is right. The kid who rear-ended me last fall was on his phone.

OK I will go buy a powerball ticket.

TWO grand pianos! One in the guest house!

This is just down the road from the music camp I went to in the 1960s. Still a totally idyllic area today. Adjacent to the state forest where I often went xc skiing in the 1980s. I can't imagine anything better than this. Oh, I don't know what I would do with the tennis court. Anybody here play tennis? (Cindy?)

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