Tracheostomy Tube

🗣️ My Story: What I Thought I Knew About Trachs When I was first told I needed a trach, the ENT described it as a quick, routine procedure — about 20 minutes, done under local anesthetic. It sounded simple enough. But maybe because of my own medical background, something about that conversation didn’t sit right. […]

Almost 60 years ago, I worked in a charity hospital in Texas that had no air conditioning, still allowed patients to smoke in bed, housed patients in wards with anywhere from four to fifteen people in a single room, and admitted all kinds of folks across the spectrum — pick whatever spectrum you want, and