| Michael and Debra |
Sleep difficulty, and symptoms |
“I like the fact that he recognized the problem and that he cares enough for his family and want to spend quality time with his daughter or children and that he decided to do something about it. I like that he wants to live longer. There are a lot of people who are neglectful and they don’t do anything about it and it shortens their life. This is good. This is a good video.” “For what I’ve seen in black families, it’s always the woman” “Yeah, the interracial couple is an issue.”
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| Loretta |
Living with sleep apnea |
“I could say, one person in a black family getting sick rocks the entire family. That could just—you could obliterate a whole family with one person getting sick. Yep. If it’s the mom, then she’s responsible for the grandchildren. Most black households are run by the grandmother, even if she doesn’t live there. Everything is what her general rule is. If she gets sick, we got a Big Momma thing. If Big Momma gets sick, everybody’s gonna lose it.” “I didn’t know that when you falling asleep behind the wheel, green light, red light, whatever, it was a sign of apnea as well. That I didn’t know. I thought that it was just lack of sleep or you’re tired or whatever. I didn’t know that was a factor of apnea, so that was good. I learned something good today.”
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| Suzanne |
“How treatment changed my life” |
“She did lose weight, she said, “Well, let me try at least one thing I know I can do differently, which is add a little more activity to your life.” I did find that fascinating with her. She seemed more willing to work on not having to use the C-PAP. That I found interesting in her.” “It’s good. It made me more—you know what, I’m more aware of what this thing is about. I really am willing to lose the weight because I don’t want to wear the mask, right, right. It sounds like it could be—I don’t know once you start it looks like you have to wear it for a long time to get—well you know if you don’t do certain things. I don’t want to get high blood pressure and I don’t wanna get that. I’m really motivated, yes, to do that. This was good. This is an eye opener for me. Yeah, yeah.”
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| Ms. Demetrius |
At home sleep test option. |
“You’re at home with it and they monitor everything? Wow. That’s good. That helps, your test…. That’s good you’re at home.’” “Seeing a sleep specialist.” See, that’s what I need to do. That’s what it’s getting me to do, like ASAP. No games.”
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