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The Wright Face & Tracheostomy Nebulizing Mask: The invention of a new respiratory-care device
The call came late one night in the Fall of 2000.
“I need you,” Dean Wright said to Vivian.
The two had been longtime friends, dating back decades to when he was a pilot and she a flight attendant; now Dean was battling head and neck cancer.
Vivian immediately dropped her life in Arizona and moved to Florida to help him through months of radiation and chemotherapy. Then came the tracheostomy. A port was put under Dean’s skin for IV/chemo delivery. A feeding tube was inserted in his stomach. And his quality of life rapidly melted away.
Dean and Vivian both knew he needed to nebulize, to keep his nose and mouth and his tracheostomy moist. But he hated it. It was a laborious process, and he had to do it 10 times a day – five times for his tracheostomy and likewise for his nose and mouth. Each took 30 minutes, with a mask on his face, tethered to a nebulizer.
Dean started cutting back. At first, he’d wear only one of the masks for 15 minutes. Then he cut back to once a day. Ultimately he stopped nebulizing his nose and mouth. “Later,” he would tell Vivian when she urged him to do so. Thick mucous clogged his mouth and his trach. “His breathing was very labored,” said Vivian, who married Dean on June 26, 2001. “It wasn’t enough.”
Finally, on an airplane flight, a piece of dry tissue got into Dean’s trach and clogged the tube. “He started gagging for air,” she recalled. “It was a horrible experience. All you could hear was Dean gagging for air. He was dying up there, with nothing I could do.”
Dean survived the flight, and Vivian checked him into the hospital for 48-hour inpatient nebulizing. “When I took him home, I said, ‘Never again.’” Gathering twine, electrical and masking tape, elastic bands, extra medical tubes, hoses and spare face and tracheostomy masks, she began piecing parts of her collection together: the necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention start to the Wright Mask.
This allowed Dean to simultaneously nebulize his lower- and upper-respiratory systems. Ten sessions a day were cut to five. Now, Dean would be properly hydrated and have 2½ hours free each day to spend with Vivian. He cried tears of happiness.
“Promise me you’ll patent this,” he told Vivian. “Promise me.” And she did. From that day on, Dean nebulized five times a day for 30 minutes each. His nasal, mouth and trachea tissues were moist and healthy. Mucous and secretions were thin and easy to expel. Even his lungs felt better. He never again had to go the hospital for a costly nebulizing stay.
Since Dean’s death in early 2002, Vivian has spent all her free time—nights and weekends—developing the Wright Mask for other trach patients. “I absolutely can’t give up,” she insists. “In a way, this has been keeping Dean alive for me. And there’s nothing better than keeping alive somebody you love.”
But it’s more than that. The Wright Mask has become part of Vivian. Her passion is to get it into the hands of all trach patients, so they, too, can nebulize in half the time. In the end, Vivian believes, all we have to hold onto is our quality of life and hope. And what is quality of life but dignity? “I feel so sorry for trach patients who don’t have it. They are losing out on a level of quality in their lives that they could otherwise have.”
The Wright Mask (www.wrighttrachsolutions.com) hit the market in February 2009, with versions for adults and children. Wright Solutions LLC is an approved vendor in 23 states and with client facilities including Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition, Wright Solutions is a supplier to three FSS VA vendors, and the Wright Mask is nearing completion of a clinical trial at the University of Miami.
It’s taken seven years to get this far, and Vivian is not about to give up now. “Every trach patient deserves the opportunity to have this in their life.”
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Written by: judiv (for uwemp.com)
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