Plugging and congestion worsening, and what could have gone very very wrong!

Well, lately, things  are really starting to look uglier in reguards to my health.  I had plug after plug last night, and One where I could not receive air from the ventilator. Those plugs are complete plugs, and they're becoming more frequent.   There's not much that can be done. I'm going to start putting an HME in line with my circuit. I have a humidifier obviously, It's an HC150 as you all know from reading previous posts, but It's PAP therapy grade, so It's not even halfway near trach ventilation standards. I'm going to see what happens if I place a Heate Moisture Exchanger along with the Humidifier inside the ventilator's circuit to see if my humidification gets any better. We'll be going through HMEs continuously, but that's all I can do unless I get a Heated Wire setup. It just means that my DME will be sending a lot more HMEs. HMMMMMMM. Maybe if they have to do that, they'll  have a shorter supply, and they'll realize their patient is ordering a higher stock of HMEs than  normal, and then they'll eventually question me on that, and I'll tell em. "OK, Listen. You guys can't supply me vent grade humidification, so I'm having to use these HMEs, even with the HC150 humidifier, and until I have trach grade humidification that's just how it's gonna have to be, and that's it. If you actually somehow decide to supply me with humidification that is going to help me, and will thin my secretions out, and thus reduce the amount of plugging, and the amount of suctioning, that'll be wonderful, and You'll definitely get a lot less HME orders, at least from me anyways. Not only that, maybe your other patients will appreciate tracheostomy grade humidification as well as ALL PATIENTS WITH TRACHS SHOULD!!

But until that happens, you'll be sending me a lot more HMEs, than you would otherwise!"



LOL!

I'm a nut, and I'm proud of it!! IN OTHER WORDS, I've learned a lesson I won't forget. I take the garbage down every week wo It can be picked up. Well I did something really dumb that could have gone very very wrong. I took the garbage down this morning with Nobody up to watch me, and without my VENT!! I got very dizzy from a massive desat, and well  you all see where this could've went. VERY VERY BADLY!! I won't do that again. I got in, and put my vent on, but seriously, I could've ended up in very very bad condition, and then either somebody driving along on the road would've discovered me, OR my parents would've if I hadn't made it back. That would be very very bad.  What've I learned? 1: I'm to just stay on the vent at all times, and It doesn't matter what I wanna do, If It can't be done on the vent, then somebody else'll have to do it, or well It just will have to not get done. 2: If I'm gonna get the trash, or take it down, DO IT ON THE VENT, AND WHEN MY PARENTS ARE AWAKE, so that if something goes in the wrong direction, I'll be discovered quickly and I'll survive the incident, therefore have further concerts in the future, and not end up dead because I had a massive DESAT, and I went into cardiac arrest!

I will never do what I did this morning, because It could've gone very wrong, and I should know better.

Other than that, I'mstill loving life to the fullest and learning from life's events. I always try to take something out of everything that happens  in life. There's always something that we can learn from things that go on every single day, and we need to look at it and pick out what there is to learn!

Thank you for reading another blog post, and God bless all of you.

REMEMBER, ONLY HE, can love you PERFECTLY!!!