[tri-med] Re: Passy Muir valve

That's wonderful!! I've worked with a lot of patients with the Passy=20
Muir valve and they are great. I bet she's glad to hear her own voice=20
again too! Best of luck! Michele, mommy to Caleb, 18 months and Chloe,=20
17 weeks gestation

Annette O. wrote:

>Hip, hip, hooray!  Annette got her Passy Muir valve today.  It has been =
five months since I have heard a sound from that girl.  Our OT told me to=
 put the pmv on for only 60 seconds at first.  I surely didn't know what =
she was talking about.  I put the thing on that girl, held the oxygen tub=
ing to the pmv, and waited for her to make a noise.  Then, she sneezed.  =
I guess because it didn't come out of her trach, it hurt coming out throu=
gh the mouth and nose because she started to cry.  Then she heard herself=
 and stopped.  I was tempted to pinch her just to hear her cry. LOL  I le=
ft the pmv on for about 30-40 minutes.  She did fine.  No desats.  I thou=
ght,  "That OT does not know my nena."  Well, when the nurse came over, s=
he did not believe that Annette stayed on that long.  So, I proved it to =
her.  I am sooooo happy I can hear my child again.  I can't wait for the =
trach to come off.  Five months and no pneumonia.  Yea!
>
>Annette, wife to Jesse (20 years), mom to Michael (18), Amadeus (almost =
7), and Annette (17 months and still counting) t18. =20
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