keep her healthy enough for it.

Ok, go back to the clinic on tuesday fersure.

No, we hadn't, Kat. So good. I want to watch it again tomorrow.

Snoring cats are adorable. Switch snores sometimes, when he's not groaning like a little old man.

Are the surgeries helping what they're supposed to, Kat> And that's great news about the passy-muir thing.

She's just such a wee skinny thing, the deep snoring is hilarious.

Jeeves snores sometimes. It's a squeaky sound that sounds like something out of a cartoon. Utterly adorable.

Sara, no guilt. It was just a comment. She was pretty gunky today and smelled funny (you can actually smell an infection in Grace before it goes full blown). I think I need to give her some sinupret.

Amy, they are, I think. She's gone down in trache size and she's breathing more through her mouth. Last surgery, they didn't do any laser-ing at all (I'm not sure if that was because they had to surgically remove a granuloma or if she didn't need it).

Wearing the PMV means she's not relying on her trache much to breathe. From adults I know who are trached, a PMV feels like breathing through a straw if you have to rely on it for your only airway access. For people who are breathing more from all available sources, it's not as panic-inducing.

I dunno what it means, long term, but it's a positive movement.

Tomorrow I have to go to UCLA for a field trip. On a sunday. ugh.

This must be such a weird series of sensations for Grace.

So far, curling up with Amy Garvey is paying off.

Okay, this is weird, Cage:

"I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales – sentient life – insects, reptiles," says Cage, who is currently getting great reviews for his performance as a drug-addled detective in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, a quasi-remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 tale of a destructive cop.
He continues: "I actually choose the way I eat according to the way animals have sex. I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds.
"But pigs, not so much. So I don't eat pig meat or things like that. I eat fish and fowl."

Yay Grace!! Is it possible that she'll eventually be un-trached, or is that not possible?

I have finished cleaning. I suspect there are things I am overlooking, but now am too nervous to do anything else. Eep.

There is an elf somewhere that is not only eating my socks, it is eating my lipglosses. Which is bad, because the ones with my favorite colors are no longer being made, so I don't want those to disappear!

This must be such a weird series of sensations for Grace.

I think every thing Grace experiences must seem horrifically weird. Except all the weird things she does experience as totally normal.

Lately, she's been covering her mouth when she sneezes or coughs. Super cute but also not the area that needs to be covered.

Yay Grace!! Is it possible that she'll eventually be un-trached, or is that not possible?

Yes. The goal of all the surgeries is eventual decannulation.

Skipping way too much on the far end of shabbat, because, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is (still! In the board's timezone, at least - so sorry for being so last-minute-y!) one of those lovely double Buffista events: it's both Jessica's birthday, as well as (according to sj "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Nov 12, 2010 9:59:29 am PST ) sj's anniversary.

Happy birthday, Jessica! With lots of wishes for a great, um, end-of-the-day, and a wonderful year!

Happy anniversary, sj and TCG!