#ventilator user

For anyone who wears the same style ventilator or cpap mask I do, some of those acrylic chain links and two swivel clips can replace the manky blue elastic pretty easily and requires no tools beyond fingers to assemble. The chain links have a little opening you use to snap them together.

Something nobody ever warns you about ventilator is how when it's even mildly chilly out, your breath will condense and make your mask all watery and it bubbles. Very annoying. I have to clean it all out after I'm done working outside in the winter and early spring or it'll drive me insane.

Yeah, not a whole lot, but I get asked on the phone if I have a cold about 1/3 of the time and i have to be like "nah thats just my ventilator." That like, stuffy nose talk where all your Ns sound like Ds.

I have to repeat myself sometimes if the person has any kind of hearing disabilities because it's harder to parse my speech than other people's. Also, they can't see my mouth to lip read because the tube is in the way. If I know it won't be long, I take my ventilator off during video chats for people who need to lip read so they don't need to struggle as much, then end the chat when I'm starting to get symptomatic from it.