What I was going to medical school I decided that I wanted to specialize in sleeping disorders.  Many members of my family suffer from sleep apnea and I knew it was something that I wanted to research into more.  During that time I wanted to see if I could make a sleep apnea machine that was better than the ones my family is at home.

I contacted a CPAP supply company to get all the parts that I would need to build my own machine and experiment a little bit on what would work and what would not.  I purchased the parts and some extras so that I could make a machine that had improvements over what was currently on the market.

I did end up building a CPAP machine that worked just fine and I had my sister try it out and she thought it was great.  I took it before the board to see if I could get a patent on it but is very depressing to find out that they could not mass-produce these machines as it would cost them about four times more than what it costs them to make the ones they make now.

Oh well, it was worth a try, right?