How to tell your co driver he has sleep apnea

Just let it go then, once you get your own truck, if he keels over dead later it's no big deal.

Honestly, we only need to care about our family and friends, maybe a few good actors or writers, the rest of the people we don't know are expendable.

 

I love my cpap machine. Saved my life.

 

That's good,
This truck has Opti Idle, it wakes me up before I fall asleep

 

Probably been mentioned but maybe audio record his sleep at the worst times and have a pointed conversation with him and let him listen. Maybe this will get his attention if it's as bad as you say, and he otherwise seems clueless.

When I was young, we called this "snoring real bad", now it has taken on a new life as "sleep apnea" and requires billions of dollars be directed to the healthcare industry so they can mitigate the situation to one degree or another.

I'm sure that for many, this is a serious situation that affects their and their loved one's ability to get proper sleep. But I think in many cases, it's just a person who snores sometimes and they are making mountains out of mole hills.

 

I know for me I never like the idea that I might have a sleeping problem. It had to be a scam I never if it before. Then also add it just seems like a sign of being weak. Also the idea of someone watching me sleep. I did not want people to hear me snore, it's was like a shame thing. After going thru the whole testing and setup it was really not that big of a deal. I changed they way I look at things. I don't think someone watching me sleep is embarrassing.

 

If this guy could have sleep apnea anyone can. It's not just overweight people.

 

Sir, Ive taken advice from young people sometimes. Commands too if they are in uniform especially a Marine. Age is something I fight against because I hate growing old. It has a cost. In my mind im still 19. But those days are gone. Young people to me are like kids still. Does that make sense? It is not meant to be offensive it's just youth is a special asset and old age with it's crown of white hair and experience is a special asset. It's says that in the Bible.

If you want to share something with me or someone, speak up. If you make sense and have a good story by all means pull up a chair, grab coffee and tell this Daddy what's what. That's the other thing. When I was 21 I had what you call Trucker Daddys or what Baltimore called Sea Daddies to take care of you sometimes with food or advice and especially teaching a easier way to crank that loaded trailer up. There is no strings attached.

Someday you will be a Daddy. I hope by then you had alot of fun and good times and are ready to teach the next generation (God help them....) what's what.

Being a team driver is a special honor but it's really scary to me when Im dealing with Monogenhelia Pass in 2 feet of snow downgrade in a winter storm in western maryland with my first trainer asleep in his bunk and Im due in Louisville KY by morning. I was scared. He I think was on the road enough with courage and common sense to understand me and my fears then. And still commended his soul to god and went to sleep anyway. For one thing that 89 volvo E Intergrated sleeper was a very nice truck for it's time awesome in snow. So it was a asset.

(Does anyone still recall the half bags Volvo used to make? The little twin disks?) Ive always hated them.

When I was a team with my wife, it got interesting sometimes when I try to teach her something and she is not in a mood to take learning from me. She was a ##### that way sometimes. I would have another trucker teach her and deflect her anger over something or other. But there were certain rules I had with her and I broke some of them. For example Black Mountain in the east coast on the Smokies was her first no #### downgrade test, and she stopped at the brake check on top of there, woke me up and asked if I can run Black Mountain (By this time in our marriage she had stories of Black, Fancy Gap, Sandstone, Savage etc) and I figured if she made it across the smoky mountains on that WVa road for a couple hundred miles with it's hills and twisties she can have black mountain. But she had to run it a certain way, I think it's 30 or less regulated by a series of flashing speed gates with escape ramps on that one. I had to stay in the bunk and pretend to be asleep to test her on that downgrade. She did good. It took alot of me to do that. But... you have to have courage. Either someone is going to do it or they are not going to do it.

 

I believe that everyone has something medically that is embarrasing. But it's ok. Ive accepted that the Apnea is not a scam, but after carefully researching this, I don't want anyone to have the Apnea at all in life. Im a snorer myself and I actually have a living quarters in which there is a hallway between my bedroom and three other residents because there is thunder from my snoring.

Im getting ready to try a sleep bed and tie to my computer here 24/7 with a mic so I can evaluate my own sleep possibly with software to allow bed to elevate when I snore. I rather do it here at home and make a effort to improve without spending three days in a hospital sleep lab. Did you know that the last time they tried to stick me in there they told me that there will be a device attached to my jewels to evaluate it's function at night? That is not acceptable to me. LOL. Ugh....

 

The sleep test is only 8 hours or less to determine if someone has sleep apnea. Then if you do you go back another night for 8 hours or less to correct the sleep apnea. They have sleep centers so it not away done at hospital. My place had tv and stuff. They try and make it like your bedroom. They don't need full 8 hours to get your numbers. My place/doctor even gave me sleeping pill prescription.