• Etterra@discuss.online
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah these are fun. Men (and some women) in my family have hearty lung capacity. My dad was a lifelong smoker and always passed this for respirator use during his annual physical. I actually surprised a nurse once with the highest score she’d seen in 20 years on the job. It’s not particularly useful, unless one of us wishes to be heard from about a county away lol.

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    17 hours ago

    Long day? Dented cranium keeping you down? Well head on down to Melva’s High Tech Seances where we’ll let you kill a ghost with your own breath. Do not inhale while using the device as your own soul will be destroyed.

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      21 hours ago

      Serious answer: having been subjected to this by my pulmonologist annually for years, they do multiple runs (often including runs after a rescue inhaler is administered), and it’s about precisely comparing the results - so no, they don’t trust people to pinch their own noses 🙂

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      18 hours ago

      For real this shit is the worst. I didn’t know exhaling could be painful until doing this. And they make you do it so many times!

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        10 hours ago

        Right?! The worst part for me is that there is absolutely no resistance to breathing out. I mentally expected it to feel like blowing up a balloon or something, but it’s just an open tube