Re: Another "Country" Heard From
Jeff Gray (nirusers(AT)ptdprolog.net)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:54:58 -0400
>I have been receiving mail from the vent-users mailing list for a couple of
>months now and so far have mainly just read what interested me, deleted what
>didn't, kept quiet.
>
I'm a 35-yr old female w/Muscular Dystrophy.
> I went into respiratory failure on October 1, 1994. I was a full-time
>employee for a govt. agency at the time. Three years later find me feeling
>better than I have in a very, very long time. I am still working for that
>same govt. agency and attending college in the evening. The vent is just
>another piece of hardware to me. My nurses even forget to put attach the
>vent back on me after transferring me to the commode because they don't see
>me as "a machine."
>
>Karen in California
I was reading the vent-users e-mail and I ran across your post. I haven't
run across many females with Muscular Dystrophy. I'm a 34 year old with
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. I'm also vent dependent. I was wondering what
life was like for women with Muscular Dystrophy.
Jeff in New Jersey