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IN THE NEWS
SEAFORD DRIVER SAVES HIS MARRIAGE BY INVENTING ANTI-SNORE PILLOW HE DREAMT UP IN HIS SLEEP
After years of strife, this cabbie says that he saved his marriage by invent- ing a pillow to stop himself from snor- ing. According to the Good News Net- work, 42-year-old Phil Moore was forced to sleep alone for five years because his loud snoring was too much for his 43- year-old
wife
Stephanie, banished to nights on the liv- ing room sofa. His loud wheezing and
spluttering, which sounds like a Phil Moore and his wife Stephanie “steam train”,
caused a rift in the marriage – and left Stephanie in tears at the end of the bed. But Phil had a reve- lation when he
designed a pillow to stop the snoring – and ironically, the idea came to him in a dream. And now, the pillow is hitting shop shelves after a
chance encounter with a patent lawyer in the back of his cab. The special pillow, which costs £169, is flexible with a raised center so that people can sleep on their fronts and place their hands comfortably underneath. Phil said: “My wife was at her wit’s end. I remember her sit- ting crying on the end of the bed. She’s been through a lot. It was putting so much strain on our marriage and became really diffi- cult to cope with. “When our boy was born it was really tough. The baby would wake up in the night and then she wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep because of my snoring. Then one day I woke up with the idea – and I said to my wife, ‘here, I’ve dreamt of this thing’. “It’s
scientifically
proven that sleep- ing on your front reduces
snoring,
but unfortunately, it’s
the most
u n c omf o r t a b l e position to sleep in. I used to wake up with pins and nee- dles from lying on my arms. “This way, you can lie on your front and reduce snoring.” Phil and Stephanie live in Seaford, East Sussex, with Steph- anie helping run the pillow business. She
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said:
“Phil has
snored for years. It sounds like a train – he had his mouth wide open and head back all through the night. “I would nudge him to roll onto his front, and he still snored, but not as bad. “I was sleeping downstairs on the sofa for five years. Not sleeping in the same room for years isn’t nice, [but] I just couldn’t bear it any more. The living room became my bed- room. “We would argue and it felt like we were going out of sync even though we loved each other. “I filmed him [snor- ing] on a few occasions and he was quite embar- rassed.
Those
videos won’t see the light of day. “I would push my hand under his chin in the dead of night
to see if it would help and it would stop for a few sec- onds. Imagine my relief to experience silence. Then when I removed my hand, he would start again.” The pillow is called MooreZzzleep and was launched at The MooreZzzleep Store in Seaford at the start of Novem- ber. On the firm’s web- site, it is described as “the ideal pillow for side sleepers, front sleepers and back sleepers” and has a “flexible curved shape, with a distinctive hollow area for your arms”. The
description
says it “enables you to lay comfortably on your front or side” and “keeps your head and neck supported when lying on your back”. Pillowcases
cost
£19.99 and are available in cream or white.
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