Re: Intro -chat

michael bowell (michael.bowell(AT)virgin.net)
Sat, 3 Jan 1998 16:48:25 -0000

Hi to every vent user and happy new year hope we all have
a good one last was not one of my family I had bad problems
with my tracky tube and had to have two minor opperations to
put it right and I could not talk for eight weeks "how often
do you other vent users have your tube changed"mine is only
changed every ten weeks.

Also last year my mom had a heart attack in may my dad had one
nine years ago a year after I was ventilated.

I've been very interested how people in other countries have to
buy their own vents we are lucky in england that we do not but
I have had the same two vents for the last ten years.

Best wishes to all.

MIKE the uentman BOWELL.
http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.bowell/index.html
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> From: CKSwedberg <CKSwedberg(AT)aol.com>
> To: skoots(AT)worldnet.att.net Moonnrize(AT)aol.com vent-users(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Intro - Bio
> Date: 03 January 1998 13:03
>
> Hi Karen! I want to welcome you to the list, too. I am a polio survivor;
I had
> it as a child in 1952. In '89 I had a trach and now am on a vent to sleep
at
> night or whenever I go down for a rest or nap. Like Becky described to
you,
> while I'm up I don't need to be on my vent. I deflate the cuff of my
trach
> tube and plug it at these times. It's possible for me to live a fairly
active
> life this way. I'm also married and have one 16-year-old daughter.
>
> Carol Meyer
> Massachusetts