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Sleep Apnea From a Doctor’s Personal Story I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) By Howard J. Hoffman, DDS
I am Dr. Howard Hoffman. I Snore! So what? It’s just noise. That’s what I thought. I have always been a snorer. I was told that I was a big time snorer by my college roommates. Then my wife and kids. They all complained! My kids even wanted separate rooms when we were on vacation. I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea in 1997. At that time I had no idea what Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) was all about. Until
that moment, I thought it was just an obscure problem that didn’t concern me. Now, I know differently. I have been treating and helping people just like me and perhaps you, for over 20 years. YOU NEED TO KNOW. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I would like to share with you, my experiences in getting help for my own sleep apnea problem. A problem that I didn’t know I had, nor was I seeking treatment for. I have learned so much and can help you begin your
journey to be tested and treated. Statistics tell us that 90% of the people who have OSA have not been diagnosed yet. That’s an estimated 40 million people in the U.S.. That’s 1 in 5 adults. Obstructive Sleep Apnea has reached epidemic proportions. Obstructive Sleep Apnea can kill. It can cause pulmonary hypertension and stroke. Obstructive Sleep
Apnea makes almost every medical condition worse and harder to control. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is the most commonly undiagnosed common disease. Yet, hardly anyone is told to get tested and treated! I know, it happened to me. I had to figure it out on my own and figured out how to help you get through the system.
It was a daunting process finding the right doctors, getting tested, trying different treatments, and working through the insurance quagmire. It was in 1997, at a conference, that I was introduced to a dental mouthpiece, like a retainer, used in place of a CPAP machine for many patients. It is a personApnea, Page 8A
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The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing By John Whitehead - Commentary
No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state. That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every
new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government’s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot. Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economi-
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cally, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon. As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the socalled name of national security, things will get worse, not better. It’s already worse. Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc. authorities. If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention. These may seem like small, necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus, but
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