CPAP Breathing Machines and Senior Travel

CPAP breathing machines are not only for seniors, but any one who suffers from sleep apnea.  Sleep apnea is where you stop breathing while you sleep.  Without the machine you will wake up every morning feeling tired all day because, you didn't get the deep sleep you need, to get  through the day.  After a while it could cause your health to go down hill and even cause a fatal heart attack.  The CPAP can save your life.  To travel with a CPAP is a must, if you want to travel, so the travel industry has to acknowledge what it is and how important it is.

The airline industry has acknowledged the CPAP, and has a special procedure for you to go through, at the security check line.  They ask you to take the motor out of its travel case and put it through the x-ray machine alone.   They also recognize that the CPAP is important enough to have to go on the airplane with you, and not with the luggage.  When you get to where you are going, I don"t think the hotels, motels, and resorts, have the recognition yet, on what they have to provide you to use the CPAP.  What is needed is an electrical plug near the bed you will be sleeping in.

In my travels with a CPAP, I found that the plugs near the bed are for the lite on the night table, and the clock, that you can use to wake up by.  If I am lucky the plug is right behind the night table and all I have to do is unplug the clock and plug my CPAP in.  But I found in some hotels, motels, the plug is behind the bed and I can't get to it without tearing the bed apart.  The answer to this problem is to ask for a plug to be available to you, when you make the reservations.  The travel industry will eventually become aware of the CPAP and how important it is and will make it easier to travel with.