My partner was in ICU for 6 days after suffering a cardiac arrest. He is doing fantastic and he is on his feet, although not too steady.
His past memory seems fine but he is making up stories about stuff as in being friends with famous motorbikers, him owning a garage and different other things.
Is this normal?
He's not really making it up. He's having hallucinations when I was in ICU I believed I had been watching a cricket match played at John Lennon's Esher house with Mick Jagger and Roald Dahl. Given that John Lennon had been dead 30 years I knew it wasn't real but boy it felt real. If my hallucinations had been possible I.e meeting someone who was still alive I might have believed it. The drugs you're on are responsible.
Hi jackyk it took me two weeks after waking up to pluck up courage to ask my son if he had two secret children in Scotland. The dreams were so real . Who knows what effect the drugs have on you . I don't think even the docs know
Hi Jackyk
I was convinced my daughter was engaged and was worried about not sending a card. I also was very friendly with Joan Collins and was concerned about the giant slugs crawling up the bed opposite. I told my brother that his wife had bought a pony to be a friend to his dog ( they had neither).
We laugh about it now but at the time it was very real. It's definitely the drugs and effects of the coma. Please try not to worry.
Try not to worry it's all part of the bizarre world of ICU sedation many of us can relate to, I was convinced my daughter had brought a highly tuned classic Mini Cooper much to my son's envy, the strange thing is her partner now has one that he's restoring.
I spent 3 months in ICU almost 2/3 of it in and out of sedation and I can remember all the strange dreams & hallucinations almost 6 year on as if it was yesterday and some are still just as amusing and the others are safely tucked away in the back of my mind.
Bill
I was very angry because willy Walsh wouldn't let me on his personal jet. I was also convinced I'd been to Corfu (I've not) and that my best friend was pregnant (she's not). It's all part of the hallucinations and nightmares / dreams associated with sedation in coma. Don't worry, you will laugh about it one day xxx
Completely normal. My husband was in a coma for almost 3 months and the stories he's told, that he thought were real are hilarious now. At first I thought he was losing his mind. He owned 2 Pearl White Escalades back in the 80's that he sold for over $100,000.00 each and hid the money from Aliens trying to kidnap all of us. He looked at me, we were coming up to our 25th anniversary and was convinced I was an Alien posing as his wife, and said, "You get none of that bitch, my real wife will, when you return her to me."
There are more but that is my favourite.....lol
Lots of spiders on my hospital bed, my family talking to me via a screen link, staff nurses who looked like old friends and bomb alarm systems going off. These are some of my weird wonderful dreams.
I had what felt like real happenings while I was in a coma for 10 days and for a week afterwards. That I had been fighting a fire on the ward, some fire fighters had called in to see a colleague that had been admitted while I had been in a coma, I am told that coma patients do not keep there eyes closed so may see things that can trigger dreams. Playing cricket for Yorkshire in the West Indies , a person in the bed opposite was Jamaican and relatives talked loudly, he left the unit before they brought me round so people in a coma do hear what is happening around them.
Memory loss from induced coma
42 days in COVID icu
Always Have Faith!!! 
