One other thing you might wish to do is write a complaint letter to the US Department of Health (or what ever its called). I would think its illegal to deny life support services.When I get a new one my old one will become my spare
One other thing you might wish to do is write a complaint letter to the US Department of Health (or what ever its called). I would think its illegal to deny life support services.When I get a new one my old one will become my spare
The unmitigated gaul!
I wouldn't worry too much about the Gauls, Gaius Julius Caesar took care of those barbarians quite handily. ;)
I suspect that this probably a confluence of legal *** covering, pre-planned obscelence and inflation of costs of goods and services due to government subsidies and mandates in an industry and an almost European guild structure in the medical industry.
Free ain't free...
Thanks for the heads up on the subject, my elderly mother uses a cpap machine I will check if hers has a software killswitch.
I'm sorry you're so far away. I have an extra CPAP and an extra BiPAP..I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about 6.5 years ago. I was prescribed a ResMed CPAP machine and leased it through Apria. It took some getting used to, but after a short time, it changed my life for the better. I could sleep through the night and wake up rested. What a difference.
Last week it stopped working and an error message on the machine said something like “the motor lifetime has expired.” These machines have a predicted lifetime of about 6 years, and my ResMed is programmed in software to permanently stop, even though everything is working fine. WHOSE IDIOT IDEA WAS THAT? ResMed actually did respond to my inquiry and said that I could not reset it.
Fixing this is not like going down and renting a new gear puller. Apria says they will furnish a new machine, but I need to get a new prescription. My original doctor has retired, and the firm he was in is not in my provider network. There were two, network, sleep doctors in my area. One can get me an appointment in June, and another can get me an appointment in July. If your sleep apnea is severe, waiting 4 or 5 months is not a very good option.
My point is, if you need one of these machines and it stops working, plan ahead for the medical roadblocks and avoid four or five months of misery.
Can u go a few days without your machine? I know I can’t. Kim
A CPAP machine is not a life support unit. If it was he would have to be on it 24/7.One other thing you might wish to do is write a complaint letter to the US Department of Health (or what ever its called). I would think its illegal to deny life support services.
I don't know about all that!A CPAP machine is not a life support unit. If it was he would have to be on it 24/7.
I have a resmed S9 thats at least 10 years old maybe 12 and its never given me messages like that. Just tells me every so often to change my hose and mask.
Veni, Vidi, Vinci!Thanks for the good spell-check catch! I've been pronouncing it wrong for decades by saying, "gaul" instead of "gall".
Although, the next thing you know, some people might have the unmitigated gall to start correcting your grammar for you. Plenty of things to worry about besides the Gauls there, but who would do that kind of thing in this day and age?
Ahhhh, but when in Rome...