This is what he looked like the day before the surgery:
This is what he looked like following surgery:
This is what he looks like today:
It was an agonizing decision to allow surgeons to cut a hole in his trachea and insert a plastic tube through which he would breathe. And there are definitely pros and cons to a tracheostomy. But he flourished after he got the breathing tube out of his mouth and all the tape removed from his face. In retrospect, we wish we would have had the operation done sooner.
We were told at the time that he'd likely have the trach for 18 months to two years. Looks like he's going to have it a while longer than that until his lungs heal. But his doctors are still optimistic that he will shed this too one day.
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