http://www.trachkids.org/medical-conditions/respiratory-insufficiency View Categorized TrachKid Profiles. en http://www.trachkids.org/members/246 <div class="trachkid-profile"> <span class="portrait" style="float:left;margin:0 0.5em 0.5em 0"><a href="/members/246"><img src="http://www.trachkids.org/files/imagecache/UserImage_Icon/files/portraits/tabitha.jpg" alt="tabitha.jpg" title="tabitha.jpg" /></a></span> <p>My name is Wilda Croxton and my daughter is Tabitha Machart Forcier. She was born June 30, 1996. She was a normal healthy little girl. She started getting sick with colds, flues, and pneumonia’s when she was about 1 ½ years old. Her chest started to collapse and with some fighting with doctors, we found one that agreed that there was something we needed to do. So she had her first surgery in October of 1998. They reconstructed her rib cage. We had hope that would be it but she did not get any better, in fact she got worse. She was finally hospitalized in January of 1999 with pneumonia.</p> </div><p><a href="http://www.trachkids.org/members/246">read more</a></p> http://www.trachkids.org/members/246#comments Female North America Apnea aspiration bronchomalacia G-Tube portocath Reflux respiratory insufficiency thoracodystrophy Ventilator Dependent Wed, 21 May 2008 08:54:17 -0400 Tabitha Forcier 251 at http://www.trachkids.org