![]() ![]() i had no intention of reading this - i'm not a fan of clowes' drawing style, and i've only ever read Ghost World, to which my reaction was 'meh.'īut i had picked this up for connor and he soon pushed it right back at me, declaring that he had 'accidentally' read it he had meant to just check out the first couple of pages and before he knew it, he'd finished the whole thing and he thought i should read it, too. I will say it's pleasantly unpredictable. The two books use different SF concepts to tell their stories, but they're similar enough that i was all, "didn't i just.?" once this one started trotting off into that direction. this one is easier on my brain because it doesn't actually try to explain the science and also there are pictures for me to look at. I may have done myself a disservice by reading Dark Matter immediately before reading this book.īoth are stories in which a man who loses a beloved woman tries to get her back through science fiction-y means and whose mistakes along the way have horrifying personal consequences i only partially understand. I wish I'd done it 20 years ago.Congratulations! semifinalist in goodreads' best graphic novels & comics category 2016! "I've been wearing my CPAP since the day I saw that video," he said. Sometimes we'd have men, who had never really thought of themselves having a problem, being tearful." ![]() "The shocking part was that patients actually got very emotional. "We somehow had to find a way to convince these patients of the urgency of their condition," said Aloia. It also raises the risk that a tired sleep apnea patient will fall asleep at the wheel and have a car accident. Left untreated, sleep apnea has been linked to serious medical conditions, including depression, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. "I mean, you're asleep you're consciously not aware of what's happening to you." "Sleep apnea is one of those disorders you never really notice in yourself," said Aloia. That was Aloia's objective from the outset. "It made me cry watching it, and to see myself basically drowning in my sleep, made me very determined to fix that." "It was a powerful moment in my life," said Brugger. In the video, patients watched themselves writhe and periodically gasp for air during the night. "We really created a personal sense of urgency in these patients in order to change their behavior." ![]() "People who watched themselves gasping and struggling to breathe with sleep apnea used their CPAP machines three hours more per night than those who saw no video, and nearly two and a half hours more than those who watched a video of another patient with sleep apnea," said Aloia. "Then we thought, why don't we show people video from their own sleep study and see what the effect is?" "Their reaction was 'Wow, that's really bad,' and then probably internally some of them would say, 'but I'm not like that,'" Aloia said. Aloia recently presented preliminary findings from the study during the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.Īt first, researchers showed patients videos of other people who struggled to breathe while sleeping without their masks. The video was part of a study led by Mark Aloia, PhD, a sleep expert at National Jewish Health in Denver. ![]() I won't even take a nap without it," he said. "It was bulky, and I had a hard time getting to sleep with it on my face," he said.īut after watching a dramatic and disturbing video of himself trying to sleep without his CPAP mask, Brugger has had a change of heart. "I didn't like it, honestly," said Brugger, a father of five from Commerce City, Colo. Brugger tried it a few times, but like more than half of those who get CPAP machines, he simply stopped using it. ![]()
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