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I Lost My Ability to Speak After Surgery — Here’s What the Passy Muir® Valve Means to Me

Aug 10, 2023 | News

Dear David,

You don’t know me, and I only learned of you recently. Your type of muscular dystrophy was different than mine, but we both had medical crises that left us with a tracheostomy and the inability to speak. This happened to you in 1984; to me in 2022. I wonder what it was like for you at the hospital…. Was it as traumatic, scary, and frustrating for you as it was for me?

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