Better - yesterday morning was the worst I am not sure where most of these people went school - but common sense was clearly not a priority - to being accepted - so far there have been 3 decent nurses - I know that sounds not bad considering I've been here 5 days but - that's out of 10 - the rest for the most part Aren't great not sure if I would entrust the care of a sack of potatoes to them- I am doing most of my own care - they check in occassionally to see if I am breathing - but that's about it - and let me tell you - yesterday I almost wasn't - I am in a room - have been since Saturday - I can't talk - but when I push the alarm bell the wait is at least 5 minutes - except yesterday morning when I was really having trouble breathing and had to wait 40 minutes - because they were doing report - I was hysterical by he time they got to me - I don't get the mentality - it may have been 17 years since I graduated but as far as I recall - airway should still be number one since if there isn't any breathing being done then that person's dead. they had to remove the NG tube Saturday night because it got coiled somewhere behind my throat - then a resident came in the next morning and tried to put it back in - he handed me a large glass of water with a straw and said swallow when I try to insert it - dumbass - my tongue is swollen - my airway is swollen - I can't breath properly but I am supposed to swallow water? Needless to say 2 tries later and a lot of gagging he was unsuccessful - yesterday an ENT res came in froze my throat and it went in not comfortably but better - really - some people have no common sense - however I get the trache - a lot of it is positional - if you are drooling and phlegmy - which I am very much the queen of both - head needs to be to one side or the other at all times or you end up gagging as it runs down the back of your throat - so that is what I do. And this helps with the NG too - today should be better - as they are likely removing the last drain in my neck- repositioning the iv from my foot to somewhere on my arm - the one without the cast - (the one I have two bruises the size of Australia on - because it too 3 nurses 8 tries to draw blood..) And most importantly they are putting in a fenestrated trache so I should be able to talk which will help matters.