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@DownMoreThanUp having a bit of a giggle here. my daughter uses a cpap machine and the noises coming from her room are all pops and splutters! she is a funny girl 😄

@DownMoreThanUp hoping you get much needed sleep soon. its hard isnt it. is it very warm where you are? is heating up here which i dont like on single bit. BOM has said we will have a wet spring i hope so.

@Bunniekins Haha i relate to that. Our daughter tried one once for a week to see if she had sleep apnoea, but she hated the feeling of the mask and kept tearing it off. Those things do make a lot of noise.

Our daughter has down syndrome, as well as a little touch of autism, and is therefore rather severely mentally handicapped, and hates anything put on her body, apart of clothes then. She will not wear watches or any jewellery either.

So we decided not to use any cpap machine on her, as the test showed her sleep apnoea appeared only very mild. However we had big concerns, that once our girl was used to the mask, she might spew in it when sick at night, for she never calls us when she is sick, but awaits things to go wrong.\

So we knew she could easily choke on her own spew for she panics greatly, and lets front, back, and top, run freely, when unwell, without raising the alarm.

Oure daughter thinks she is naughty when ill.

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@DownMoreThanUp it is hard work having a special needs child (i know only too well) i have 2 with autism and ptsd and one also has schizophrenia and a mild intellectual delay and both also have epilepsy so i can sympathize with you. xx

@Bunniekins No it is not warm here, but it is wet and chilly outside. i have the heater going, but i never let the temp go much higher than 18C. i hate it when heating is up too much in Winter.

i much rather be on the chilly side than hot.

@DownMoreThanUp yes me too. i absolutely hate the heat. summer is over rated imho. does it get very hot where you are?

@Bunniekins Yes our girl has P.T.S.D as well, she got that from before she became our daughter at 5 years of age.

She is 38 now and just a month ago left home, for we saved up her money, and build her her own home, together with some else from Church, who also has a down syndrome girl.

Then we applied NDIS for funding and have had 24/7 care approved.

In preparations of all this it took us ages to wean her from being just with us, but we managed with carefully planning, and the support of two other families, she knew really well. For they took her in two nights a week, very flexibly so, for a few years, as to gently break her dependency on us, and make living on her own a possibility.

She has now two night time carers, and four day time carers and comes home Saturday afternoon till Monday mornings.

She is absolutely loving it, though she is still really loves coming home on the Weekends. Which has been nice to see.

@DownMoreThanUp that is fantastic! i am so glad the NDIS has come to the party to fund it for her. my more disabled son is in a supported living home which will be his forever home. it is hard because he still wants to come home and live with me but other than visits here i cannot cope with him long term plus i need to know he will be safe and happy when i am no longer here.

@Bunniekins Albany is usually coolish compared to other places around. Summer temperatures rarely go above 25-27C.

However the hottest day in my life has been in Albany as well 48.6C My glasses burned my cheeks that day. So it can get hot over here, but hardly ever.

Only when the Wind is from the North, which hardly ever happens.

My wife loves hot weather, she was born in Perth, and thinks Albany is far too cold, for far too long in Winter.😀