Dorothea came through the tracheotomy procedure just fine. The ventilator is now attached to the tracheotomy tube. As long as she needs help breathing the ventilator will be attached. Which means that she will not be able to speak during this time. When she no longer needs the ventilator, she will be able to speak by covering up the hole on tracheotomy tube. The doctor says that when they are ready to wean her off of the tube that will take 10 days to 3 months.
Harold clarified for me that the infection in her lung is not a rare infection, but it is not normally seen in the lungs, and the nurses were unfamiliar with the infection.
The doctor is also wanting to remove her nose feeding tube and have a stomach feeding tube inserted. This will be so nice for her to not have anything attached to her nose or mouth!:)
I am grateful that all went well with the procedure today. Every time they have to put her under anesthesia is unsettling.
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