Dandy Panic

Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 - 2:43 a.m.

Had myself a fine and dandy little panic yesterday evening.

I kept listening to things through my headphones and finding them bearing WAY to the left.

Which is my bad ear, which is not good, because if my left ear is doing better than my right ear, I am screwed blue.

Tried numerous headphone sets. The litlte foldy ones, the little cup ones, and the seventy-dollar Sennheisers.

All of them were louder on the left side, and that means my hearing has finally gone round the bend.

Just to make certain nothing is amiss in the 'audio out' settings, I do a double check, and open up my preferences.

And that's when I find out I had recently confused a 'balance' setting with a 'volume' setting.

Whew.

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I got my December ish of Reader's Digest.

On Page 56, there's a really excellent writeup about obstructive sleep apnea. If you can only read one page of text in a magazine about this disorder, this is the one. Eighteen million people have some sort of sleep disorder caused by OSA.

And Kaiser -- bless their niggardly little hearts -- will not cover this item under durable medical equipment. (No, the word 'niggardly' is not related to the phonetically similar racial epither in any way, and if you're so backwards that you thought that, then right now, what I want you to do is take me off of your list of reads.)

Never mind that there are metric assloads of proof of improvement of health after an apnea victim begins using a CPAP -- but such are the mysteries of health care organizations.

If you've been reading Dave Marron's diary, you know that he's just taken delivery of a CPAP machine for his own apnea. I've known Old Buddy Dave for -- good heavens, it's coming up on twenty years -- and until three days ago, I had no earthly idea he was talking through a Ben Stein filter. I presume that was caused by his years of incomplete sleep cycles.

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All rightie. Don't feel like doing the Friday Five today, but maybe next week.

Have a good Friday and a nice weekend, kids!

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