Yes, Billy--a whole bunch of us have the August Anniversaries, mine was this
past Sunday Aug-3rd. 11 years. In the early going, I spent 1 month with
Pneumonia on a ventalator in ICU.... then got transfered to rehab and fought
for another 3 weeks to wean off of Oxygen. ( Had a Treach ) you are so
right---it is sweet to breath on ones own again, I'll never forget those early
days.
Dan H. C-6
Quadius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have chosen not to think too much about the anniversary of my accident,
but I have decided to embrace the first time I was able to breathe for 24 hours
without any ventilator assistance.
I was shooting for my birthday, August 4, but I managed to breathe on my own
for the entire day on August 6 (today) 13 years ago. In fact, I have only been
put on a ventilator once since then to aid me in getting out secretions. Well,
I do stuck on the end of a ventilator hose daily in order to get some
medication into my lungs, but I didn't start doing that until February 2007.
I had planned on doing something today, but that didn't work out. Tomorrow I
will definitely doing something worthwhile.
--
Quadius
C2-3 incomplete
13 years post injury
