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This blog is a record of events in the life of Joseph Taggart and his family since his spinal cord injury while body surfing in Guatemala in January 2006.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Keeping my Nose Clean -- Monday 2/6/06

Joseph has been able to eat and drink enough for the last three days to prove he doesn't need the feeding tube up his nose. Dr. Dodds came in this morning and said "I've never had a patient off of the feeding tube before they were off of the ventilator, this is amazing". They removed the tube from his nose and the tape etc. from his face . . . What a relief! While they were at it, they removed the PICC line from his right arm. (this is the semi-permanant direct access to the blood supply for meds etc). One more step forward.

Joseph got in a lot of physical therapy today and still had enough energy to be on the speaking valve all day and breath without the ventilator for 3 hours. He is doing amazingly well and he looks really great too!

2 Comments:

Blogger Stephanie (Record) Davis said...

WOW!! I you are doing so great, but I wouldn't expect any less from you. You are such an inspiration to everyone! We all love you. Keep up all the hard work.
Stephanie Davis (Record)

Feb 7, 2006, 4:40:00 AM  
Blogger Gym Rat said...

You rock!

I'll bet it's worth all that hard work just to have some personal comfort---having tubes all over the place can't be fun.

Hugs!

Feb 7, 2006, 5:19:00 AM  

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