1.   He spoke in a gentle rasp, his hands over the tracheotomy hole drilled in his throat to help him breathe.

2.   A respirator tube is linked to the tracheotomy hole rather than reaching down the throat to the lungs.

3.   But he remained on a respirator hooked to a tracheotomy hole that doctors cut in his windpipe Wednesday.

4.   He is being fed by a tube inserted into his stomach and breathes through the tracheotomy hole.

5.   The respirator will be linked to the tracheotomy hole rather than a tube reaching down his throat.