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Date Posted: 12:45:07 03/30/24 Sat
Author: Gunner
Subject: Re: Intubation or a mask at night
In reply to: Grant 's message, "Intubation or a mask at night" on 10:09:19 03/30/24 Sat

I'm Grant's older brother and we both discovered this site together. Grant has particularly bad sleep apnoea and has gone through all of the usual things like sleep studies, having his adniods removed, a deveated septum fixed, his tonsils and uvula removed. When he was 14 he came to live with me after our Mom had passed away from cancer, i did my own sleep study on him both at the hospital and at home. Also around this time he got appendicitis and was in the hospital for that, i got permission from my department at the hospital to try using some different equipment on him to try to help with his sleep appnia as the regular equipment used for it didn't really help him much. Most nights we just use a mask with a machine that maintains normal air pressure and has a co2 scrubber attached to it otherwise he's just on room air with nothing else which helps him fairly well, when I'm more free and am able to monitor him more is when I'll put in a breathing tube, he likes to watch me do it because I use a video assited scope to put it in which he says helps him relax more. Also on nights when I tube him i also put in a catheter as he can't easily get up to pee if he needs to.

>I'm a 20 year old guy and since I was 14 I've lived
>with my older brother who is an anastisiologist. When
>I was younger I had some surgeries and woke up with a
>breathing tube in and I told my brother that I thought
>it was kind of cool. He decided to help me out with it
>at home. Every night before we go to bed i lay down in
>either my underwear or pajama pants depending on the
>time of the year and my brother hooks me up to a blood
>pressure monitor, heart monitor and oxygen monitor
>before he either puts a mask on me or inubestas me
>after giving me an anastic spray in my mouth so that
>the tube doesn't hurt going in. He then let's me go to
>sleep well he watches me and makes any adjustments to
>the equipment before he goes to bed. When he wakes up
>if I was intubated he helps me take out the tube if
>it's just a mask i usually take it off.

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