Jodi I didn't realize it was you that got Covid--I thought you meant Steve. If it makes you feel any better, I got it for the first time last year a month after getting my fourth booster--so apparently the booster didn't help much. What did help was Paxlovid--a day after taking it, I felt almost normal.
Having said all that, I am going to get both Covid and flu shots this week. I think I can just walk in at CVS....
Feel better!!
I am wishing to, but I am not waiting...
The next NO KINGS march is October 18th. I'm joining our local resistance group to find out what I can do.
not sure how i ended up quoting myself. can't seem to delete.
Applause to you for having the fortitude to do this. It's expensive and disruptive, but I'm sure the results will make you happy every day when it's all done.
I really like Robert Reich, but I've found him to be wrong about just about everything he's written about during the Trump era.
what a gorgeous design! I like it!
Feel better soon! Not understanding the physician requirement--it's so hard to get an appointment these days.
@Bernard said in Now Jimmy Kimmel:
@pique We need a national strike.
For me, watching and reading Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen at The Contrarian helps a lot.
totally agree about the national strike. long overdue. I have had to stop watching all the podcasts and stuff on substack. my inbox was becoming a nightmare.
@Steve-Miller said in Sleep apnea and c-pap machines--experiences?:
Mine is made by ResMed.
The biggest problem I have is with mask fit. My face is between sizes or something. Tried several styles and none of them will stay sealed. Maybe I should try again
I don't have a mask. It's just nasal pillows that fit against my nose. The seal is pretty easy to accomplish, though it took me a few nights to get the hang of it.
Can you go back to the medical supply company and ask to try a different setup--i.e. no mask?
One issue with forgoing the mask is that you have to keep your mouth closed, because there is no seal around it. I'm finding that is hard for me (especially since I had a hard blow to my nose on Friday with lots of bleeding, so a bit stuffed up), so I am going to use tape to close my mouth. Nothing fancy or expensive, just hypoallergenic medical tape. You apply it vertically in the middle of your lips so that you can still breathe through your mouth if you have to, or take a sip of water.
Woohoo! My sleep score this morning was 100! 
My brain was so clear. I sat down to write at 6:30 am and got an idea for a new book. And I got my words back (Mr Pique has been saying for a while that my nouns are missing.) My inability to focus has been plaguing me for a very long time now, so fingers crossed this is going to be my ticket out of brain fog hell. I think it also helped that I got in a long, hard hike yesterday.
My model is by React Health. It seems to be pretty state-of-the-art.
Wondering if Medicare considers these machines to have a limited life span and if they will replace the machine at that point?
Corporations are only interested in one thing--making money for their shareholders and themselves. That's it. They are amoral entities. Which of course is why they should never be considered "persons." Persons, typically, have consciences. Corporations do not.
As for Kimmel, when I heard the news, the first thing I said to Mr. Pique is, "This is getting really scary."
And, it is. I mean, the handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time that this was where we are headed, but here is the proof. We're there now.
I tell myself all the time, lately, that we are foolish for not getting out of this country while the getting is good. But just thinking about it is paralyzing. "Am I really sure it is time to go? How will I know when it is time to go?" Which is how my ethnic group ended up in death camps.
I am heartened by all the strong voices in public life that are still speaking out. We have got to fight this as hard as we can, as hard as we know how. The next No Kings march is October 18th. I've joined my local Indivisible organization and I'm going to take their trainings. It feels like it isn't much, but at least it isn't nothing.
Thanks, Steve. (Sleep score 92 this morning! Up from 50. Woohoo! Except I can't say I feel more rested. Is this some kind of gimmick?)
What brand machine do you have?
This thing is kind of amazing. It turns itself on and off automatically, and it uses cell service to send all my sleep statistics to the hospital. It pre-heats the hose, and also automatically monitors and adjusts humidity.
Yeah when they told me the warranty is up in two years, it gave me pause. Medicare is paying for the whole thing, but after the warranty is up repairs will be on me.
OK now I am curious. Is India just another layover? Or will you be spending significant time in India? Where in India? I haven't been there since the 70s and I'm very curious to know about your experience.
If India is just a layover, what is your actual destination?
I spent my long layover at Heathrow in the airport, so I'm no help.
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.
