Day 587 - ENT Appointment👂👃 🗣️
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 We had an early morning ENT appointment. We hadn't seen them since January. The goal of this 6 month check-up appointment was to see where we are at in getting off the ventilator and plan for decannulation. Needless to say but she was also disappointed that we didn't start the trials off the vent yesterday. She explained that once James is off the vent completely it will be about 9 to 12 months after that until he gets his trach out. She did a bronchoscopy to check his airway and look at the granuloma in his stoma. She was able to cauterize that with silver nitrate. James was not a fan. (It stains your skin brown and takes forever to come off.) He tried sticking his fingers into his stoma blocking the doctor from applying the compound so Mom and Dad had to hold his hands down. The doctor let us know that the secretions she saw looked thin and white. However at home we typically see thick and yellow. She was concerned about James doing another round of ...