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Lulu Miller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1965 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

And in a way, that's what this story is really about.

This tiny piece of plastic with odd existential potential that would come to have a profound and kind of unexpected effect on Alice's life.

In early 2025, Alice is in a hospital.

Where she lives in San Francisco.

It almost looks like a shampoo cap, bottle cap or something.

And then does that go, do you know how it would go in?

Yes, that's in my next answer, young one.

Alice explained this valve attaches to a person's trach tube right where it goes into their neck.

Oh, that's an elegant design.

And the cherry on top for Alice was that this valve, this sleekly designed little contraption.

I was excited that he was a disabled inventor.

Was invented by a disabled guy.

He was a quadriplegic due to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.

His name was David Muir, PASI Muir valve.