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With body and soul

Food production has always been a fascinating topic for Wolfgang Schneider. The graduate agricultural engineer specialised in dairy science and spent his professional life in this sector. What has remained to this very day is cheese production, which he now pursues at home. The laryngectomised senior also looks after a small wooded area, his "outdoor fitness centre", as he refers to it with a twinkle in his eye.

Enthusiasm included

After his total laryngectomy 25 years ago, Willi Kuhlbörsch thought his days of intensive football playing and swimming were a thing of the past for ever. However, an amateur football team accepted him as just another player completely without reserve or any thought of his condition. Since then Willi has been an activist encouraging inclusion in sport and elsewhere.

A love of stones

At the age of 84, most people are long into their well-deserved retirement. Not a topic for Alois Jung, the passionate road builder and authorized expert loves his profession far too much for that.

Coping through art

Child Care

"Children are not little adults!" - even if this sentence may seem a little trite to some, it remains true.

HME Filters

The continuous use of a filter system for 24 hours a day, such as an HME filter cartridge, alleviates symptoms and promotes pulmonary rehabilitation.

Weaning from the tracheostomy tube

Decannulation is also known as weaning from the tracheostomy tube. Here we describe the actual process, which depends on many different factors.