00:00So this is a tracheostomy, it helps you breathe, so if I pull this out here, it goes into my
00:05windpipe and it helps me breathe.
00:35Right, so I have two different valves, I've got this one here that I wear at day time.
00:47When I breathe in you can see the air goes in, and when I breathe out it kind of cuts
00:51off because it helps me get a voice, so it pushes the air over my vocal cords.
00:55Now at bedtime I have a different valve, so this is the HME, can you see that?
01:01A bit higher.
01:04And there's my other valve as well, here it is.
01:07My daughter is behind the camera and she's going to take this one out and put the bedtime
01:12one in.
01:13So are you ready?
01:14Pull it, pull it!
01:15Whoa, speedy.
01:16This is, as you can see, it sticks out more, so I can put this on, which is a HME, which
01:33stands for Humidify and Moisture Exchange.
01:36I breathe through all three, my nose, my mouth and my trachea, so there's three different
01:54ways that air can get into my lungs.
01:57I don't know how I do it, I don't know how I split it, because I've literally done it.
02:02Excuse me, I've done it since I was a baby, like I've always had my trachea, if I have
02:07a blocked nose then it affects me like if I have a cold, so then I breathe through my
02:14mouth and my trachea more, but yeah, there's literally no, I can't explain how I do it
02:21because I've literally done it forever and it's just how I breathe, I guess it's just
02:23how you guys breathe when you're breathing through your nose or whatever, yeah I can't,
02:28there's no real way I can explain how I do it because I just breathe.
Comments