Wow I really should read what dragon puts out sometimes before I send it lol
Daniel Espinoza 26/m/California Occupation before accident - Network engineer / SR. Network security engineer What happened: I broke my c2,c6,c7 and had to get donor bone at c2, which left me as a <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriplegia> Quadriplegic. I had a <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury> Traumatic_brain_injury from blood going to my brain from my spinal cord, but its getting better with time. I am off a <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator> ventilator "woohoo" however only half of my <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_diaphragm> diaphragm works right now "due to an asymmetric <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury> spinal cord injury....." <http://spinalcordinjured.net/> http://www.thespinalcordinjured.net <http://www.myspace.com/dannylnx> http://www.myspace.com/dannylnx From: Daniel Espinoza [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:41 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] 35 year anniversary I gone to the hospital with them on your kind of often. Don't need help breathing but I really don't want a whole in my neck again... only been a quad for 3 1/2 years, so I guess I'm kind of a newbie. I fight UTIs and pneumonia, the UTIs I usually don't need to be hospitalized unless my doctors worried however the pneumonia is something I go and visit the hospital for. I really don't like being in the hospital or being suctioned through the nose, or getting a trumpet in my nose because it's so raw and bleeding in there. Right now I have tried using a therapeutic vest and the jury is still out on how well it works. Thanks a lot for this information may be one day I'll end up giving in and getting one also. Right now we were turned down for a home suctioning kit, I think with the trach they wouldn't have a problem with me getting one. I've got some thinking to do I still really don't want to have the trach but maybe someday. Daniel Espinoza 26/m/California Occupation before accident - Network engineer / SR. Network security engineer What happened: I broke my c2,c6,c7 and had to get donor bone at c2, which left me as a Quadriplegic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriplegia> . I had a Traumatic_brain_injury <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_brain_injury> from blood going to my brain from my spinal cord, but its getting better with time. I am off a ventilator <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator> "woohoo" however only half of my diaphragm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_diaphragm> works right now "due to an asymmetric spinal cord injury <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury> ....." http://www.thespinalcordinjured.net <http://spinalcordinjured.net/> http://www.myspace.com/dannylnx From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 7:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] 35 year anniversary I can't believe I made it to my 35 th year anniversary. My parents were told after each hospitalization I might not make. It seems I was strong enough to defeat their predictions even though I appeared to be weak at the time. I was given a tracheostomy after each of my surgeries, but it was removed before I came home. I had so many long hospitalizations trying to get off the ventilator and over pneumonia. I was given another tracheostomy during a pneumonia in 88, which they changed to a trach button before I left the hospital. It has kept me out of the hospital except for a UTI that got into my bloodstream causing a coma for 13 days. I had a pneumonia last year. The trach buttonallows me to get over the bronchitis at home. I didn't want it, but it turned out to be a good thing for me and not very noticeable. It is mostly capped, unless I have a lot allergies or congestion and might need suctioned as needed. It is easy for anyone to learn how to do. I am quite healthy almost all of the time. I love to enjoy life going to concerts, which is one of my favorite things to do. Sorry this has been such a lengthy post. I have forgotten, who has the longest survivor that we know of. They had saved that information, but have lost when this computer was reformatted and my brother thought he had saved. I haven't got a lot of posts this summer, and I'm sure everybody is busy. Just wanted to say I miss those that I have not heard from. What does everybody think about the new health-care bill as nobody has mentioned. I know that is a political issue, but very important for our ability to survive and get what we need. There has been talk about taking away from Medicare. Medicaid is also having problems with reduced state revenue for problems. Kansas has mentioned there will be some reductions with populations such as ours, but I don't know where it will be targeted. PCA hourly pay is very low and hard to find people that want to work with no increases at all for a number of years. Just wondering! . _____
