This Book Blows: A CPAP Bedside Companion

By Mike Moran

Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a sleeping disorder that affects millions of people but which has only recently come to widespread public attention. Fortunately, an effective therapy called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can treat it. Simply blowing air into people's noses at night gives them new, improved rest and silences their characteristic snoring.

Unfortunately, the adjustment period for this therapy is not of short duration, and most people give up in the early stages, before they can reap maximum, if any, benefit. Who can blame them? They must admit to snoring and then wade through a morass of tests and insurance red tape, all to obtain the pleasure of wearing a not-so-form-fitting mask every night-one guaranteed to thwart alien abductions.

Author Mike Moran, who also suffers from Obstructive Sleep Apnea, offers a comforting and humorous resource for everyone dealing with the difficulties of this disorder-and its treatment. This Book Blows is for all the true "hose heads" who need to know they aren't alone in their quest for a good night's sleep

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595379842
• ISBN13: 9780595379842
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun Reading

I was laughing aloud while reading this book. The author does a great job describing aspects of sleep apnea and the CPAP and making us laugh about it. I am so glad I purchased this and urge others to as well.

A Great Mood Elevator

Being pretty new to the CPAP experience,I am a new member to an online support group called cpaptalk.com. Without that group, I would probably be one of the thousands who receive their prescribed machines and mask, try it once or twice, find it weird and somewhat difficult, and put the whole thing away and forget it; and leave my Sleep Apnea untreated and still damaging my body. The author of this boook, a member of that forum, has realized the underlying humor of this situation,and gives us a reason to laugh our way through adjusting to having a vacuum cleaner attached to your face, blowing air up your nose, every night of your life. I have had many a great laugh at his stories,poems, etc. He understands firsthand what it is like, and it shows! It is a great companion to always put you in a great mood and to make you laugh at the weird thing that happened when your hose got tangled up with your hanging plant- and keep at it until you get everything adjusted so your therapy is just right- and helping you every night to -finally!- feel rested again. .... I definitely would recommend it to any and all CPAP users and their significant others. Thanks, Mike,it's wonderful!I'm still hangig in there, and it is getting better every night- your book stays on my bedside table. ~joan Trinity101

a humorous look at cpap therapy

If your looking for a book that solves your problems, this isnt for you. However if youve struggled at all (and I think we all have), this book lets you know your not alone and gives a humorous look at cpap therapy. If your frustrated or not, this book will let(make) you laugh at cpap.

Laughter is Good Medicine.....

As a CPAP educator I would have to agree w/ C.K. Humor is good medicine and it gives the person going through this an opportunity to laugh. Hopefully a good educator or fellow CPAP user has already presented and proven all of the reasons to continue to be compliant w/ this therapy (that's educator language for "use the CPAP"). This book does not profess to be a saving grace or educational material; and yes it is "sophomoric" in it's humor at times. But actually I can see where writing this was theraputic for it's author and the laughs it provides might give a tattered beginner or an person who has strayed away from their therapy the relaxation from laughter & the patience with themselves and their situation to go onto better / more frequent CPAP use. I think it's actually quite clever in it's conception !!! I am for more humor in this world & taking ourselves a little less seriously; while doing what we must do to function in this world. Two thumbs up !

FUNNY

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR REAL LIFE ADVICE AND TIPS, THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU. THIS IS PURE COMEDY. AS A FELLOW 'HOSE HEAD' I ENJOYED THE BOOK AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT.