congratulations. On August 8 I will celebrate the 14th anniversary of the day I was able to successfully breathe without the aid of a ventilator.
I like celebrating this day as opposed to worrying too much about the day I was injured. I like to accentuate the positive. Quadius On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > > > . > > > > > > ------------------------------ >
