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This is a video I made in 2020…yes that year…I was having some weird physical issues which no one was figuring out what the cause was. I started making video tutorials and a big binder, to detail out various ways of doing different things for Alex that he and I had figured out work for his body such as suctioning. This was just in case I was unable to help him. Curiosity Can Save Lives One of the things I’ve learned over the past twenty-one years is that sometimes the most important question isn’t, “What do I do?” It’s, “Why does this happen?” Years ago, I noticed something about Alex’s tracheostomy. When I suctioned him, mucus plugs often seemed to collect in one particular spot near the end of the trach tube. I could remove many secretions, but that same little area always seemed more difficult. Instead of simply accepting that it was “just the way it was,” I became curious. Why that spot? So I took an old tracheostomy tube that was no longer b...
