Surgery went great today
Jun. 30th, 2023 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteToday was the eleventh throat surgery I have had since January 2022.
This one went great! I was out of the hospital exactly five hours after arriving, which is a fucking RECORD. (The longest stay was six days, three of which were in the ICU on a ventilator.) (I watched SO MUCH curling, as the 2022 Winter Olympics were on at the time.)
Intubating me through the tracheostomy continues to be effective. It's why I HAVE a tracheostomy at all -- an after-market access port for anesthesiology teams so they do not struggle to keep me alive. (I am what we call "difficult to intubate.")
There's not a lot of swelling, I can breathe normally, the doctor did not use the laser cutter so my pain levels are not bad, it's all good.
Next surgery is in nine weeks, not six, because the throat dilation appears to be becoming effective and my throat is not growing closed as much or as rapidly between each surgery.
Breathing is SO nice. I recommend it.
This one went great! I was out of the hospital exactly five hours after arriving, which is a fucking RECORD. (The longest stay was six days, three of which were in the ICU on a ventilator.) (I watched SO MUCH curling, as the 2022 Winter Olympics were on at the time.)
Intubating me through the tracheostomy continues to be effective. It's why I HAVE a tracheostomy at all -- an after-market access port for anesthesiology teams so they do not struggle to keep me alive. (I am what we call "difficult to intubate.")
There's not a lot of swelling, I can breathe normally, the doctor did not use the laser cutter so my pain levels are not bad, it's all good.
Next surgery is in nine weeks, not six, because the throat dilation appears to be becoming effective and my throat is not growing closed as much or as rapidly between each surgery.
Breathing is SO nice. I recommend it.
Re: FWIW
Date: 2023-07-01 02:58 am (UTC)