Tue, 27 May 2008 13:29:55 -0500:
Angels,
Trudi just got back into her room after another surgery. She has a tracheotomy and is breathing much better. The breathing tube is out and I can hear the difference. Her breathing is deeper and easier for her to take breaths. The machine is assisting her with her breathing, but they are reducing the size of the diameter of her tracheotomy every four to ten days, by 2mm. She has an 8mm trache and then wil go to 6mm and so on until she is breathing on her own and can swallow on her own, and they can close the tracheotomy.
In an hour or so, she will have a feeding tube inserted into her stomach. She will be unable to swallow for a while while her throat heals from the irritation caused by the tubes down her throat. This may help her communicate by lip sinking, and if I can read her lips, that will be most excellent. If I can’t ready her lips, her nurse says she’s pretty good at it since she deals with this every day.
More great determination from Trudi, she’s fighting this and will continue to progress each day. Your prayers are working and we are witness to those miracles that have occured and will occur. We are so deeply grateful for all of your prayers, and be certain, they are coming through loud and clear.
More later, after the feeding tube insertion.
Love you all, and know that each of you are in our prayers.
May God Bless You All.
Bob
