If your spouse/partner uses a CPAP machine, where is it during the day?

[Anonymous]

Or you could put a liner on the cart

[Anonymous]

How about your husband makes his own side of the bed??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about your husband makes his own side of the bed??

Not Op but let's be serious who makes half of a bed?

Op seems to be really concerned with the visual presentation of her bedroom so I'm sure a half made bed would be like nails on a chalkboard to her.

It's is to me and I don't even have a pottery barn home and gardens catalogue type bedroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The CPAP should not be on the floor, it’s drawing in the filthiest air in the room at floor level, air filled with dead skin cells and all other sorts of yuck. Yes it has a filter, but it’s still not a good choice.

CPAP should be elevated, on a bedside table where it lives all the time. If for some reason you don’t want to see it during the day, lay a towel or other decorative linen over it. But don’t let it live on the floor.

I’ve been using a CPAP for nearly 20 years and I don’t clean my machine daily, I don’t know many who do. The mask should get wiped daily and rinse the hose at least a few days a week, but a thorough cleaning of the machine’s interior isn’t necessary. The machines that hook up to the CPAP are actually warned against by many manufacturers because they can potentially damage the CPAP.

If you don’t want it on the bedside table, you could purchase a little cart for it that goes into the closet during the day so your bedroom can look like Better Homes and Garden in case the queen drops by.

I know you meant this to be sarcastic, but I actually do like this suggestion. Thank you

-OP

I honestly was only being partly sarcastic. I work in home healthcare and have seen patients who manage their CPAP this way - some are more particular about home decor than others. FWIW, I was diagnosed when I was fairly young (and slender) and was self conscious about having the machine on my bedside table so I always put the mask and hose in a drawer and covered the machine with a lovely embroidered linen cloth.

A nice little rolling cart could hold the machine and the hose/mask and go into the walk in closet every morning. Just make sure you’re vigilant about making sure he’s taking it out and using it every night, to keep his heart healthy.

What if it leaks and the cart gets wet?

And then the cart leaks and OP slips and is TERRIBLY INJURED and has a lot of PAIN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CPAP should not be on the floor, it’s drawing in the filthiest air in the room at floor level, air filled with dead skin cells and all other sorts of yuck. Yes it has a filter, but it’s still not a good choice.

CPAP should be elevated, on a bedside table where it lives all the time. If for some reason you don’t want to see it during the day, lay a towel or other decorative linen over it. But don’t let it live on the floor.

I’ve been using a CPAP for nearly 20 years and I don’t clean my machine daily, I don’t know many who do. The mask should get wiped daily and rinse the hose at least a few days a week, but a thorough cleaning of the machine’s interior isn’t necessary. The machines that hook up to the CPAP are actually warned against by many manufacturers because they can potentially damage the CPAP.

If you don’t want it on the bedside table, you could purchase a little cart for it that goes into the closet during the day so your bedroom can look like Better Homes and Garden in case the queen drops by.

I know you meant this to be sarcastic, but I actually do like this suggestion. Thank you

-OP

I honestly was only being partly sarcastic. I work in home healthcare and have seen patients who manage their CPAP this way - some are more particular about home decor than others. FWIW, I was diagnosed when I was fairly young (and slender) and was self conscious about having the machine on my bedside table so I always put the mask and hose in a drawer and covered the machine with a lovely embroidered linen cloth.

A nice little rolling cart could hold the machine and the hose/mask and go into the walk in closet every morning. Just make sure you’re vigilant about making sure he’s taking it out and using it every night, to keep his heart healthy.

What if it leaks and the cart gets wet?

And then the cart leaks and OP slips and is TERRIBLY INJURED and has a lot of PAIN.

Textbook definition of domestic violence. DTMFA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't he just leave it on the bedside table where it's ready for use the next night?

I agree that leaving it on the floor is a tripping hazard, and will just expose it to more dust, but putting an item you use every single day out of sight seems ridiculous.

I worry that water could leak out of the machine and damage the wood nightstand.

You are supposed to empty the reservoir each morning. It takes two seconds.

[Anonymous]

If he's not cleaning his hoses and mask daily he probably doesn't take care of other things and that's just gross to never clean it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't he just leave it on the bedside table where it's ready for use the next night?

I agree that leaving it on the floor is a tripping hazard, and will just expose it to more dust, but putting an item you use every single day out of sight seems ridiculous.

I worry that water could leak out of the machine and damage the wood nightstand.

You are supposed to empty the reservoir each morning. It takes two seconds.

OP here
Well he doesn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Posts like this make me love my partner so much more. So glad we don’t have this level of nonsense in our marriage.

Was just about to say the same thing. I can't imagine being micromanaged this way or needing to micromanage someone else. Leave the poor man alone, OP.

Agree leave him be. He’s already got to sleep with a mask on his face.