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Re: Please Vote: Trach or Dementia.

Posted by Pamela on March 27, 2002 at 21:37:31:

In Reply to: Please Vote: Trach or Dementia. posted by GBoogie on March 27, 2002 at 20:49:26:

"Sometimes what we see as a poor quality of life in someone else doesn't really bother the patient that much. She is better off without the trach."

I don't understand his reasoning in that comment. Does he think that the trach would somehow be harmful to your mother? I would want the trach rather than the dementia.

Pamela

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