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Toddler lives with benign tumor  -  25 May 2007
Hendersonville Times News,Ashby says Emelia is scheduled for speech therapy due to her tracheotomy and should begin daycare in a few months. "I just wanted to say thanks for all the

Amid mounting deaths, Fallujah  -  25 May 2007
France24,Inside the hut Harth's father explains that his son underwent a tracheotomy three years ago after scar tissue began to close his windpipe following a

The road back  -  25 May 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,She agonized over allowing a tracheotomy so Lana could be fed, but she finally signed the forms. A backlog of work prevented the procedure, but it was never

Highland's Cundiff rolls for his father  -  25 May 2007
Gary Post Tribune,If things don't work out with this morning's tracheotomy surgery, a doctor would be asking Chris the toughest question of all.

Let me tell you why I'm such a lucky guy  -  May 19, 2007
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,I use an electric wheelchair to get around; breathe through a tracheotomy and portable respirator; and write this column using a laptop computer equipped

the Compassionate mother  -  May 14, 2007
Flint Journal,You just bond," said Melody, while cradling adopted daughter Lexi, 3 - who has a tracheotomy in her neck and was born with bronchial pulmonary dysplasia,

Local woman helps Nicaraguan boy get medical treatment  -  May 24, 2007
Sewickley Herald,After the accident, Zapata received an emergency tracheotomy at a hospital in Nicaragua to save his life, but has since been required to live with a metal

11-year-old allegedly shot, killed by friend's father  -  May 13, 2007
Houston Chronicle,His wife died recently and he had lost a machine that enabled him to talk through a tracheotomy tube in his throat, she said.

Student perseveres despite disability  -  May 24, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,After nearly two months in an Iowa City hospital - where she got a permanent tracheotomy to breathe and a temporary feeding tube to eat - doctors released

Tumor removed from Dominican teen's jaw  -  May 24, 2007
Shreveport Times,She has a tracheotomy and can't speak, but she is passing notes to the doctors, nurses and her house mom." Ghali removed the tumor; Dr. David Kim rebuilt

Medical bag sought for girl  -  May 24, 2007
The Republican,It also had a suction machine, needed to keep her airway clear, some spare tracheotomy tubes, and some asthma medication, she said.

Commencement to start new life for woman who almost lost hers  -  May 11, 2007
Cleveland Plain Dealer,They won't see the mark from the tracheotomy that sits at the center of her throat like a dark jewel, or the light patch of skin along her hairline,

Beloved teacher Bob Grandgenett dies  -  May 8, 2007
Forest City Summit,But his illness and the new challenge of teaching with a tracheotomy were hardly enough to slow him down. By the time he retired again just weeks ago

Fraser Valley Walk for ALS offers hope  -  May 23, 2007
Langley Times,He now has a tracheotomy and breathes with the aid of a ventilator. He communicates by using an “alphabet board.� “He can still yell without talking and he

Stephen Hawking Experiences Zero Gravity  -  Apr 27, 2007
The Moscow Times,...explain black holes and other celestial phenomena, lost his ability for natural speech after a tracheotomy that followed a bout of pneumonia in 1985.

Physicist Hawking marvels at life's existence  -  Apr 26, 2007
ReutersHe lost his natural speech after a tracheotomy that followed a bout of pneumonia in 1985. Hawking's insights about black holes, which he wrote about in the

Hawking: Humanity's Future Is in Space  -  Apr 26, 2007
Discovery ChannelApril 26, 2007 — Noted cosmologist Stephen Hawking, paralyzed by a progressive and incurable neuromuscular disorder and stripped of his voice by tracheotomy

Roger Ebert doesn't "give a damn" about paparazzi  -  Apr 26, 2007
Xinhua,Ebert also had a tracheotomy that left him unable to speak. While he has written some movie reviews during recovery, his TV show has used guest critics.

Roger Ebert gets standing ovation  -  Apr 27, 2007
ImediNews,Unable to speak because of a tracheotomy, Ebert had his wife Chaz voice his thoughts about the night's festivities: This is my happening, and it freaks me

Fans welcome return of Ebert at film fest  -  Apr 26, 2007
CBC Nova Scotia,He also underwent a tracheotomy — a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe — to allow him to breathe, but left him unable to

US: Roger Ebert soaks up fan adoration at film festival in 1st ...  -  Apr 25, 2007
Brocktown News,A tracheotomy has left the 64-year-old film critic unable to speak. But at his first public appearance since cancer surgery last June, Ebert smiled widely

Does 'Rambo' trailer tip hand or shoot foot?  -  May 22, 2007
Hollywood Reporter,There's also some exquisite carving skills on display as he disembowels one poor sap and performs on another combatant an unwanted tracheotomy.

Drivers found guilty of death in crash  -  May 22, 2007
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription),Beard testified last week that she woke up at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's burn unit with a tracheotomy and having no idea where she was or why.

Closing arguments today in deadly drag racing accident trial  -  May 21, 2007
Elizabethton Star,Courtney Beard said she woke up at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's burn unit with a tracheotomy and having no idea where she was or why.

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Endoscopic Partial Laryngectomy Using ...  -  May 10, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),This technique is minimally invasive with no incision or tracheotomy. Patients spend less time in the hospital and have a quicker return to normal activity.

A bishop's controversial position  -  May 7, 2007
renewamerica.us,One may wean someone off the respirator or attempt a tracheotomy, but to merely shut off or pull the plug on the respirator after it has been connected and

Goodacre awaits another operation  -  May 20, 2007
Santa Fe New Mexican.com,Her tracheotomy tube was removed shortly before she was taken to Craig Hospital. On April 19, she began eating solid foods again -- pureed carrots.

The best gift  -  May 19, 2007
Blue Springs Examiner,A chest tube was inserted and he had to undergo a tracheotomy so he could breathe. "That was very tough on Zack, seeing his dad with that tube down his

Victim of fiery crash shows burns to jury, and driver says he wasn ...  -  May 18, 2007
CourtTV,..."I couldn't talk because I had a tracheotomy." With Beard's testimony concluded and a short lunch break over, Mullins took the witness stand to tell how he

Soldier in Iraq helps Orange County youngsters on their pilgrimage ...  -  May 18, 2007
The Photo News,...defect called PDA which has since been repaired but later needed surgery on his lower male anatomy, which resulted in complications and a tracheotomy.

Videos protest possible cuts in Medicaid  -  May 16, 2007
DetNews.com,Born with only one lung, 20-year-old Jacob West sits in a wheelchair as his mother injects liquid nutrition into his stomach and cleans the tracheotomy

Our readers' views  -  May 16, 2007
The Columbian,Also, she can no longer board an airliner with a box cutter to perform an unscheduled tracheotomy on a flight attendant. Beyond those two inalienable rights

Couple's love for their little fighter  -  May 15, 2007
Swindon Advertiser,Nathan said: "His chest collapsed and he stopped breathing, which meant they had to perform an emergency tracheotomy. "He was rushed to John Radcliffe

School nurse humbled by honor  -  May 15, 2007
Albany Democrat Herald,...regular classroom teachers — how to monitor catheters, clean tracheotomy openings, adjust gastrointestinal “g-tubes,� mix and inject glucagon,

Surgeons prepare for extraordinary operation  -  May 15, 2007
Shreveport Times,Surgeons will need to give Lusila a tracheotomy that will allow her to breath during the operation and then until the swelling in her mouth goes down.

‘Renaissance' teen inspired by family  -  May 14, 2007
Lompoc Record,First a visitor spots Wayne, seated nearly upright in front of his two computers, his tracheotomy tube descending down his chest.

‘Poytry,’ pruning and the birth of Jane St. Garden  -  May 17, 2007
The Villager,I took Polaroids and visited Bill, who still had a tracheotomy tube. He seemed pleased with the photos, but when I mentioned the pyracantha,

Raising Awareness  -  May 14, 2007
Carlisle Sentinel,...“All they could really do was trach me,� he said, referring to the tracheotomy procedure used to help people breathe. “I was literally begging them to do

Riva's Dolls  -  May 12, 2007
Chabad.org,He moved into a hospital room, with a tracheotomy and respirator to keep him alive. Five years later when he succumbed to his illness, Riva found herself

Commencement starts new life for shooting victim  -  May 12, 2007
Canton Repository (subscription),They won’t see the mark from the tracheotomy that sits at the center of her throat like a dark jewel, or the light patch of skin along her hairline,

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