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Eight Weeks and Counting

Our days are starting to feel like the plot in the movie "Groundhog Day." We go to the hospital, and one of three things occur.  Justin is asleep (floating on pain medication and/or increased CO2 levels).  Justin is awake and in excruciating pain (not enough pain medication).  Justin is awake and in moderate pain, attempting a new breathing trial.  The latest experiment is the dosing of the fentanyl arm patches.  Too much, and he's asleep all day and can't work on his breathing.   During breathing trials, the respiratory team lowers the ventilator support, and Justin tries to last as long as he can with the lowered support--up to 12 hours.  He generally does very well at mildly or moderately reduced support.  When they move him to trach mask breathing, when he is breathing primarily on his own with a little oxygen tank boost, he has quickly faltered.   This cycle has pretty much repeated itself for the last seven weeks.  The difference now is that with the trach, they

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