caregiver fear and courage
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My Father – Part III: Learning to Live With a Tracheostomy
By the time “tracheostomy” entered our vocabulary, cancer was in my father’s breath, not just his reports. The trach, we were told, would help him breathe and clear secretions. What no one really says is that a tracheostomy doesn’t just change a neck; it changes a household – the sounds in the room, how you…