Sleep Apnea In Entertainment
Question:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:40:53 -0500, "Kees Boer" – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -<keesb…@integrity-computing.net> wrote: >Hi, I’ve got a question for you all. I’m an entertainment correspondent and >as such watch a lot of film and have to review television shows at times. >I’ve been reviewing the show DOC starring Billy Ray Cyrus lately, because I >was interviewing most of the cast. I asked Andrea Robinson today (she plays >nurse Nancy Nichol on the show and she just got a Gemini nomination for this >year (kind of a Canadian Emmy)) about sleep apnea. She doesn’t remember that >they did a show on it, though she had a suggestion for me and that is that I >sleep "upright on a pillow." She had heard that that helped. Anyone heard of >that? >Anyways, this week, I watched an old show of the sixties with puppets called >"The Thunderbirds." This is the show that preceded Universal Studios’ film >this last summer. Anyways in this old show, one of the puppets and >characters is sleeping and the soundeffects are clearly of sleepapnea. >Is there any other entertainment that has featured this sleeping disorder?
Uncle Junior Soprano on HBO’s Sopranos has sleep apnea. A year or two ago, there were episodes where he was fitted for headgear and mask, and his CPAP machine was set up by a technician. Dennis — Dennis McCandless Chicago
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"REP" <r…@inanna.com> wrote in message
news:31srp0F3epni9U1@individual.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In article <IFaud.126506$%x.38104@okepread04>, > "Kees Boer" <keesb…@integrity-computing.net> wrote: >> Hi, I’ve got a question for you all. I’m an entertainment correspondent >> and >> as such watch a lot of film and have to review television shows at times. >> I’ve been reviewing the show DOC starring Billy Ray Cyrus lately, because >> I >> was interviewing most of the cast. I asked Andrea Robinson today (she >> plays >> nurse Nancy Nichol on the show and she just got a Gemini nomination for >> this >> year (kind of a Canadian Emmy)) about sleep apnea. She doesn’t remember >> that >> they did a show on it, though she had a suggestion for me and that is >> that I >> sleep "upright on a pillow." She had heard that that helped. Anyone heard >> of >> that? > You are aware that playing a nurse on TV doesn’t make a person a nurse > or give one any special medical knowledge?
Yes, I’m quite aware of that. Trust me, I wouldn’t be interviewing some of the people that I do, if they were like their character. Like I wouldn’t have interviewed Richard Kiel, who played Jaws in a couple of the Bond films. That would be scary. Although I have to say with the DOC show that they have medical personel working on that show to make sure that it is accurate and Andrea would never claim to be any sort of medical authority, but she has learned quite a bit from having acted as a nurse for the past 4 to 5 years. > Sleeping in a sitting position may make it easier for a person with > sleep apnea to breathe while asleep, but it is no substitute for > diagnosis or proper treatment.
Yes, I just found out that my insurance is paying for me to see a real sleep doctor this Thursday! Kees – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> — > "Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner." > – Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather
Response:
Hi, I’ve got a question for you all. I’m an entertainment correspondent and as such watch a lot of film and have to review television shows at times. I’ve been reviewing the show DOC starring Billy Ray Cyrus lately, because I was interviewing most of the cast. I asked Andrea Robinson today (she plays nurse Nancy Nichol on the show and she just got a Gemini nomination for this year (kind of a Canadian Emmy)) about sleep apnea. She doesn’t remember that they did a show on it, though she had a suggestion for me and that is that I sleep "upright on a pillow." She had heard that that helped. Anyone heard of that? Anyways, this week, I watched an old show of the sixties with puppets called "The Thunderbirds." This is the show that preceded Universal Studios’ film this last summer. Anyways in this old show, one of the puppets and characters is sleeping and the soundeffects are clearly of sleepapnea. Is there any other entertainment that has featured this sleeping disorder? Kees
Response:
In article <IFaud.126506$%x.38104@okepread04>, "Kees Boer" <keesb…@integrity-computing.net> wrote: > Hi, I’ve got a question for you all. I’m an entertainment correspondent and > as such watch a lot of film and have to review television shows at times. > I’ve been reviewing the show DOC starring Billy Ray Cyrus lately, because I > was interviewing most of the cast. I asked Andrea Robinson today (she plays > nurse Nancy Nichol on the show and she just got a Gemini nomination for this > year (kind of a Canadian Emmy)) about sleep apnea. She doesn’t remember that > they did a show on it, though she had a suggestion for me and that is that I > sleep "upright on a pillow." She had heard that that helped. Anyone heard of > that?
You are aware that playing a nurse on TV doesn’t make a person a nurse or give one any special medical knowledge? Sleeping in a sitting position may make it easier for a person with sleep apnea to breathe while asleep, but it is no substitute for diagnosis or proper treatment. — "Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner." – Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather
