January
2010
Late Night Talk Show2
Miss Dorrie’s late night partying and sleeping in continue unabated. Right now, her average time for going to sleep is probably around 2:30am or later, and she’ll sleep past noon if we let her. Further updates as events warrant.
But the other thing she has been doing is learning that she can use her voice. When she has a cuffless trach in, she is able to make sounds without too much effort, and she is learning that when she does it, she gets attention. Most of the time all she says is “ahh”, but I have seen her experiment with other sounds too. She seems to do it most often when she is connected to the vent, since the slight amount of pressure it provides makes it that much easier to get air past the trach to her vocal chords. And thankfully, we now have two cuffless trachs, and there are two more on order, so we should be cuffless all the time from now on.
Great!
Wait till she learns NO!
(January 8th, 2010 at 11:39 PM)
Oh, she already knows NO even if she can’t say the word.
(January 10th, 2010 at 1:18 AM)