Trach Cake
When it was time for Adam to be trached, everyone was offering their condolences, saying "I am so sorry...". We had already been through so much, that we decided we HAD to make this a positive thing, after all, it was in Adam's best interest. So I baked a cake and decorated it with a picture of a little boy with curly brown hair and what I imagined a trach and ventilator tube to look like, that said "congratulations Adam". This was our "trach cake". The day of surgery I brought the cake in and the whole NICU and ENT team enjoyed our cake. One of the nurses made the comment, "Tina, you are either handling this very well, or you have finally lost it..."
Adam's trach was the best thing that could have happened for him at that point in his life. We thank God he had that option. He went from a drugged up kid with an ET tube to a thriving little boy with open eyes and a huge smile.
