http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/02/14/ventilator-tube-intensive-care-unit/#comment-3369 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:19:42 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/02/14/ventilator-tube-intensive-care-unit/#comment-3369 That was a saga! I kept trying to talk. Then I tried hand signals. THen I tried writing (my parents have the sheet of paper somewhere; apparently, I wrote some profanity, which is completley out of character for me, so I have never been shown the paper). But all that to say "GET THIS THING OUT OF MY MOUTH!" Finally, they did, and I said, "As soon as we get home, we're taking sign language!" That was a saga! I kept trying to talk. Then I tried hand signals. THen I tried writing (my parents have the sheet of paper somewhere; apparently, I wrote some profanity, which is completley out of character for me, so I have never been shown the paper).
But all that to say “GET THIS THING OUT OF MY MOUTH!” Finally, they did, and I said, “As soon as we get home, we’re taking sign language!”

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