Originally Posted by Spoiler

They said I can go home after I can breathe on my own without this trach sticking out of me. Each day they plug it momentarily until my eyes gloss over and I start kicking. They are trying to work with me on that.

They moved my feeding tubes from my nose to my stomach about a week ago and have taught me and the wife how to pour the smoothies in through there. They said that hopefully I can learn how to swallow and speak again in about 8 weeks and then that set of tubes can be removed too.

So maybe home in 5 days and then hardware free in two months...