Tracheostomy

Tracheostomy. That was the end result of a summer long hospital stay. I could go into the details of all the tests & procedures leading up to it. How the doctors tried every other option to avoid it, but many of those details are also a bit of a blur. Even to me, who knew nothing of what a tracheostomy was, I knew it would help Jordan. He was not getting better.

July 26th he had a T&A. Because Jordan was so sick & unstable, he did not fair well coming out of anesthesia. Another memory I have of that summer, is seeing my peanut not take a breath on his own. He was intubated, and used a ventilator to breath. He has several bronchoscopy's, these showed his airway was not healing from the previous surgeries, the tube in his throat was continuing to irritate the site. When they would reduce Jordan's sedation, he would become agitated & move about making the healing process more difficult. When he was sedated, he wouldn't breath. The only way to move on with the healing process was to place a trach. This happened the 2nd. week in August 06.