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  • Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine.

    It’s a medical device used to prevent sleep apnea, a condition where your breathing stops during sleep, which causes the lack of oxygen (or CO2 build-up? I can’t remember which) to trigger you to wake up, disrupting your sleep. This leads to sleep deprivation, even when you may have thought that you managed to get a full night’s sleep.

    The machine treats the condition by continuously pushing down air down your airways, which makes the breathing interruptions impossible, leading to less sleep interruptions.

    Over time, the condition may lead to complications that are more serious than mere sleep deprivation, such as heart disease.

    One of the symptoms people near you may notice is snoring. Another is constantly being tired, sometimes to the point of for example falling asleep while driving.

    It’s a condition that should be treated quite seriously. If the symptoms line up particularly well for you, then a sleep study might be a good idea.

    The treatment isn’t exactly fun, but I can tell you from personal experience that it will change your life. Being treated actually gave me the energy to take care of the problem of overweight that I had, which was the root cause behind the sleep apnea. I have been symptom-free for many years now.
















  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldI'll be ready
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    6 days ago

    I actually had this happen with PostNord, and managed to get them to fix it.

    I was getting my bike delivered and they gave me the standard 5 hour delivery window. When there were a few minutes left I got a call which I took immediately, and then they instantly hung up on me. A few minutes later I got a notification about a failure to deliver because I was not responding, and that I could go pick up the thing at their facility which was way out in the middle of nowhere.

    There was no chance that I would actually be able to neither get there nor bring the package back since I don’t have a car.

    Thankfully I called their support line and explained the situation, and they apologized profusely and sent the package out for delivery the next day, at which point they actually held up their end of the bargain and delivered properly.

    I suspect there’s some bad incentives going on for the drivers, like them being scheduled to deliver an unrealistic amount of packages etc. Annoying regardless