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I had an emergency tracheostomy. Rather unpleasant.
I’ll skip boring details, but went to the OR for a rather routine 1 1/2 hour operation only to wake up 4 hours later with a tube in my windpipe and a bunch of frantic doctors around me along with my wife and daughter. Seems they had an oxygen crisis and another doc rushed in to do an emergency, then regular tracheostomy. Otherwise I was fine. Spent all last week in ICU. First day was horrible getting used to it and (gross alert!) hacking out of that tube. Got so I could hit the toilet three feet away using Kentucky windage.
Not to trivialize a potential deadly situation, I just focused forward and this past week at home the hole has already closed up with no air escaping. Long winded (get it?) post, but I got pretty used to writing a lot not speaking for a few days. As soon as the trach was removed I ate a giant lunch and could eat & drink anything like normal. I only took three Ibuprofens since all this and won’t touch that Norco stuff. Amazing that something so scary looking was so painless.
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10-14-2018, 01:35 PM
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Sorry to hear of your troubles brother and glad you are on the mend.
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Must have been from all that Wyatt Burping.
Glad your mending well. 
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I’m glad you are recovering well. Not to make light of your post, but the statement about Kentucky windage caught me off guard and I laughed til I had tears. Get well soon!
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Matt, I am glad all ended well and I pray you mend quickly.
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Hope and pray you continue to heal and feel better. I've had a tube through my nose down in my belly , catheter and I.V's. I took all the Morphine and Norco allowed, very grateful for the Doc's and Nurses that took care of me.
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10-14-2018, 01:59 PM
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THEY had an oxygen crisis???
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Sounds like quite an ordeal, both for you and for your family. Glad you are on the mend.
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Yikes!
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Sounds pretty unpleasant all things considered.
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Happy to hear you're recovering!
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Wow, what a pain in the neck!!!
following the humor in your post
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Must have been from all that Wyatt Burping.
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And hanging out with my pal Wild Bill Hiccup! BTW, all my Kaiser nurses and various respiratory/speech specialists were fantastic. Really great people and cute, too. But it’s hard to be charming and witty in a nightgown coughing up lungers out of my neck. My surgeon was noticably upset afterwards. He once had me do an MRI and found an unrelated tumor in my saliva gland and removed it. Turned out benign. This one really scared him. Goes to show that even minor (in this case lipoma removal) can turn very serious for other reasons.
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You say routine & minor, inquiring minds want to know what the hell happened?
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I'm glad you're doing well. I had to look up lipoma removal.
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... hacking out of that tube. Got so I could hit the toilet three feet away using Kentucky windage.
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So ya tried a rifle, dint like it, went back to shotgun, eh?
Glad you kept a sense of humor and are on the mend. Difficulty breathing is a really scary event.
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WOW ! Never fun with a airway tube. Been there done that ugg. Get well soon
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Glad you pulled thru okay. Stay safe.
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Glad to hear you are on the mend...scary stuff!
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To bad what happened, but I am glad that you are on the way to recovery and you have a great sense of humor.
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Matt, so glad that you are on the mend!! Sounds like a scary episode.
Keep us posted.
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Wyatt, I am intrigued that it went that way.
Weren't you intubated and ventilated for your procedure? When you suffered your oxygen crisis they could have just turned up the O2. If this was under propofol anesthesia you would not have been intubated.
Lots of times, in my very limited experience, they start with an emergency cricothotomy through the cricothyroid cartilage then when things settle down they do a tracheostomy.
Were those Doctors worried about you or their own assets? You definitely went from bad to worse before their eyes.
Anyway--heal up quick and get back to the range.
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Waking up from most any operation is stressful enough without that sort of thing! Glad to see you are ok.
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Glad you are OK.....at the very least you have an interesting story to tell.
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Sounds as if it was touch and go for a while there. I'm glad they pulled you through it and you're recovering well.
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Planned medical procedures.....
Planned procedures are bad enough, but those unplanned ones......
Glad you are doing better.
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Very glad that everything turned out OK. That was a tough go.
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I'm not sure how well I'd have done with what you described. My prayers for you and your family, and your complete recovery.
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It is great to see you looking at it with some humor and that your doing well.
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Thanks for the warm thoughts, everyone. The hole in my neck has already closed up and the only problem is the band aide causes some irritation around it. My shoulder/neck lipoma area aches a little.
It was my idea to have this fat mass removed for the second time in eight years. If it comes back I don’t care if I look like Quasimodo. I’ll never do that again unless my life depends on it.
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My thoughts exactly.
Wyatt, you might want to consider getting your medical records and then at least talking with an attorney. What you experienced might have been medical malpractice on someone's part. It is very curious that a routine surgical procedure would have involved such extreme measures to save your life. I am sure you are grateful to your doctors for what they did for you, but someone could have made a mistake that falls within the realm of negligence here.
By the way: the emergency procedure is a 'tracheotomy." The hole that's created is the tracheostomy...
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Wyatt; Glad to hear you are recovering well. I know what you mean not wanting to go thru that again. I've had 2 major surgeries since Aug. 3rd. Three stents into my arteries & a Pacemaker in Sept.
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I had a lipoma taken off my back under local. Surgeon using something to cauterize. OR smelled like hamburger.
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It does sound odd that they performed a trach before intubation. Did they attempt an intubation and couldn't do it? Before getting an attorney involved, ask your surgeon what happened.
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since 9/1 I have been largely a couch potato with a triple fracture of my humerus. find out Friday if they are going to operate or not (?).
fortunately, being a Fed, I have 20yrs of sick leave accrued--been out 6 weeks. going crazy. weaned myself off of oxies the first week.
I commiserate, bro
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Hard or easy....
Hard or easy, just so's you're still with us!
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