New CPAP mask

I received my new Joyce Cara CPAP mask on Wednesday and immediately its effects were felt, reducing the number of apneic events from nearly 20 per hour to only 3 (and there's room for improvement). My original hypothesis - that I discarded - was that the mask needed to be replaced; this is the real reason for the increase in apneic events. The mask came with the straps already attached; all I had to do was tighten them. I think that in previous years I have had to attach the straps myself, and my three left hands mad this process difficult. 

Last year, I wrote that the company was offering the mask for 799 NIS on its website; the price is now 749 NIS. I spoke to a sales person about this and discovered that this was the price of the mask itself, without the flexible pipe that connects to the mask and brings the air from the machine, and without the filters for the machine. I didn't use to change the filters much in the past (although I do now) and I don't know how much the pipe degrades over a year - if at all - but as I'm not paying anyway, it didn't make much sense to try and save. As my wife said when we were talking about some other health issue, don't scrimp on health.

My weight has also reduced by 300 g this week - not a huge amount, but still considerable. The family came over for dinner last night and we talked a little about the diet. I said that I wasn't used to eating at 7 pm and indeed I had stomach ache after dinner. They asked whether I was hungry in the evenings - I said that I frequently feel an urge at tea time for a little something but I can successfully resist this. I don't know what I'm going to do the next time we have a Friday night dinner: either eat much less or else cook a portion of fish and eat that. Friday night communal dinner is one of the great Jewish traditions.

The first rain fell yesterday and woke me up at 4:45 am. Shortly after I got up and took the dog for her morning walk. It started raining again at about 11 am and didn't stop until the evening, so fitting in an afternoon or evening walk was problematic. Before 8 am yesterday, 0.4 mm fell, and until 8 am this morning another 4.9 mm. Not huge figures but it's a start. The rain is supposed to finish by tonight. 

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