After whipping my mask at the stone wall in my apartment the other night, I thought I might start researching inexpensive ways to prevent the leaks from my hybrid mask. It seems like everything is just dandy when I lay me down to sleep, but at some point, usually within a couple hours, I am awakend by a leak. Now if you don’t know, have a leak wake you up is tantamount to waking up to water dripping on your head. Combined with the fog of sleep, the frustration of knowing you have to be awake in a few hours, and the realization that most likely its going to keep happening – well, it makes me a very unhappy man. The hybrid mask has nose pillows but it also has a piece that goes over your mouth, its the first mask that has not given me the blowfish effect. At any rate, I had Sarah cut up some of her panty hose and I slipped it over my face, I looked like I was getting ready to throw rocks at a tank. It worked beautifully, I highly recommend it. The mask stayed in place. As you you know, if you use one of these things, that when you get a leak it only takes the smallest amount of pressure to stop it, the problem is that you cant keep your fingers there when you’re sleeping, so this leads to being woken up every ten minutes by a hissing squeaking sound, or a thin stream of air shooting you in the eye. Give the pantyhose a shot. She originally offered me some fishnets, which would have probably made me look like I had some sort of disease. The lines from the mask are enough as it is, I dont need to walk to the coffee shop looking like a pomegranate.
Also I should mention that my numbers are the best they have ever been. HI 2.7 AI 0.3 thats freakin amazing!
