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Home > afriend was placed in a medically induced coma after having a lung removed due to cancer, they want to replace the ventalator with a trach-tube then rehab, they said 2 days ago if they took hi off the ventalator he would die, so why the trach?

afriend was placed in a medically induced coma after having a lung removed due to cancer, they want to replace the ventalator with a trach-tube then rehab, they said 2 days ago if they took hi off the ventalator he would die, so why the trach?

By Anonymous
Created 04/08/2010 - 06:55

friend who has lung cancer and had a lung removed they put him in a medicaly induced coma and he is on a ventalator, 2 days ago the doctors said if they removed him form the ventalator he would die, now they plan to use a trach-tube then Rehab- so why the trach ?

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