Our wish was for Audrey's trach to come out by Christmas. When we said it it seemed very unrealistic. However, just a few days shy of Christmas, Dr. Morgenstein gave us our wish. After almost 5 months Audrey had her trach removed. In fact, Dr. Morgenstein gave me the honor of doing it.
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| Best goal EVER! |
About a week before her trach was removed we went down to Riley and Dr. Morgenstein put a smaller trach in. During the day we kept the trach plugged and we took the plug out at night. This was a special time - we were able to hear Audrey make noise. It wasn't quite her regular voice, but it was still music to our ears.
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| Audrey gets a smaller trach |
Then we went back down to Riley. First we stayed overnight and they "plugged" Audrey's trach overnight to see if she could breathe ok on her own. She was just fine with it plugged so the very next morning Dr. Morgenstein came in bright and early and had me take out her trach. This was kind of weird. I thought this would be a BIG deal or procedure or something. I mean, it was such a big deal going in, I thought it would be the same way coming out. WRONG. I took it out right there in our room. The nurse covered it with a little gauze and they watched her overnight again to make sure she would be ok. She did a GREAT job so we got to go home - trach free just in time for Christmas. It was the best gift anyone could have given us.
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| Trach free baby girl |
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