Yesterday I went to the hospital and took Victoria with me. While we were there the RTs were doing some therapy on Sara. Well, one of the RTs decided to do a breathing test on her and plug her traech. They pulled the cannula and screwed on a cap and Sara started nose and mouth breathing. It tickled her throat a little bit and she coughed. She was taking real good deep breaths when somebody said something funny - and she laughed out loud!
She is able to vibrate her vocal cords! It sounded so funny that she laughed again, and then again. It was a evil sort of sound, but she was able to provide enough stress to cause the cords to vibrate.
This is huge news. It means that she will not be mute. It also means that at some point she will be a good candidate for speech therapy. She has already started mouthing words, but needs a lot of help in that area, and time to continue to heal.
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That is SO AWESOME to hear!!! :D :D :D
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