Healing is coming along about as well as can be expected -- Still have all the machines, although the air mister is making me quite chilly -- The suction machine is very useful! Hope I can get rid of this trach pretty soon -- Doc wants it in there in case anything goes wrong and I do see that the throat swelling is going down a lot slower than with the previous surgery, so I will continue to defer to his judgement -- Followup visit tomorrow.