This is strange. If she’s not on a vent, then the trach would be neededfor her to protect her airway, which leads me to think she’s either not conscious or she’s have difficyluty swallowing. Somebody in the media isn’t being honest. Listening to news reports they practically have her ready for discharge.
On Fox this morning one of the guys said that she might be released from the hospital in a few days.
What a stupid lie. Wishful thinking. They really are really really stupid when it comes to medical stuff.
Like on Inside Edition they said doctors took her breathing tube out for a while this week to let her breathe on her own. They just made that up.
I was hospitalized with a very severe case of staff pneumonia in 2007. I was on the ventilator for almost two weeks as the doctors didn’t feel I could breathe on my own well enough without it. They told my husband that if they left me on the ventilator much more than 7-9 days I could end up on it for the rest of my life. The doctors wanted to remove me from the ventilator so I would not need it if I recovered completely from the pneumonia, and wanted to do a trac on me because they were afraid I would not be able to breathe sufficiently to keep my blood oxygen level up well enough on my own once they took out the breathing tube. My husband asked that they let me try to breathe on my own before they did the trac and fortunately I was able to do so. Had I not been able to do so they would have gone through with the trac. The way I understood it they left me on the ventilator as long as is possible without it becomming a permanent necessity. For a few days after they removed the tube they had to use a bipap machine on me a few times to help get my blood oxygen levels up, but somehow by the grace of God I got stong enough that it wasn’t necessary after that and was able to just breathe additional oxygen using a canula.
I can only assume from my own experience that the congresswoman was on the ventilator long enough that the doctors were concerned about getting her off of it so she wouldn’t need to be on one for the rest of her life. If they were still concerned about swelling a trac is likely the safest way to insure she is able to get sufficient oxygen as she recovers.
When you have a trach tube in for a long period of time the throat can remain too swollen for air to pass through it without being held open by a tube. She can breath on her own, but they have to open airway for her. Whenever I had surgeries that lasted longer than 10 hours they had to do this.