BD Today

[BigH63]

I get to spend my 2nd Birthday since discharge today. I’m so thankful ICU saved me so I can spend this day with my partner my children my grandchildren and brothers a sister.

Things are still hard and upsetting but things are improving slowly.

Things do get better.

🙏

[Sepsur]

I found the first few anniversaries were very poignant - thankfully life takes over again in time 💙

[BigH63 in reply to Sepsur]

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[Heretotellthetale_]

happy birthday!! Enjoy a day with your loved ones ❤️

[BigH63 in reply to Heretotellthetale_]

Thank you

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[Lux95]

Happy Birthday!!

[BigH63]

thank you 🙏👍

[Lassie2011]

I'm celebrating my 2nd birthday since coma tomorrow also, very strange feeling and full of mixed emotions , honestly feel blessed and guilty at the same time! But hey, life is very much for living and have a wonderful day my fellow survivor!

[BigH63 in reply to Lassie2011]

Thank you Lassie2011. Yes I agree with everything it is strange. And Happy Bithday for tomorrow the survivors 🙏🤔❤️‍🩹🍸🍺

[oggyy]

my dearest wife will be celebrating her 3rd birthday this year after being in ICU for 8 weeks followed by a further 8 weeks in another hospital for related issues. I want to say thank you to everyone in the ICU of the Queens medical centre hospital here in Nottingham who looked after my wife and showed total dedication to their work. Angels in uniform is the only way I can describe them. Pete.

[BigH63]

I’m glad your wife is able to spend her 3rd year out of ICU with you and yes they are Angles in uniform, without them I would definitely not be here. Even underfunded and broken they still perform miracles.

[Jamiesnanny]

I actually 'celebrated' my 56th birthday in ITU with Covid and my family were told to expect the worst. However the next day I was transferred to St Thomas hospital where they managed to stabilised me enough to get a tracheostomy and things improved from there. On the 8th May it will be my 4th anniversary of admission to ITU but on the 29th I will celebrate my 60th birthday (although technically I slept through my 56th so have to discount that one so I am still only 58!) I am incredibly grateful to both the fabulous hospitals that never gave up on me. My family are the biggest reason I kept going so look forward to celebrating with them. Wishing you a wonderful birthday. The milestones do get easier and less overwhelming. All the best. Kate

[BigH63]

H Kate

Thank you.

I’m glad you’re get to celebrate another birthday post ICU. It is strange it’s like you’re living in to life times one before and one after and both are very different.

Hope you have a fantastic 60th birthday. I spent mine at the top of my driveway with social distancing and people from my Cul de Sac and my sister and brother in law. I had a big party planned but alas it didn’t happen so I’m waiting until my 65th instead. I ended up in Covid ward a year later twice once with Covid and then after coming out I went back in with bilateral embolisms one on each lung on Xmas day 2021 and came out in Jan 2022 Then back in January 2023 but into ICU that time with a myriad of nearly life ending issues

Have a good one

[ZanderB]

I hope you enjoy the big day! Like sepsur says getting back to real life has rather taken over for me, thank goodness. But in the early stages, I remember there being so many milestones: a week, a month, three months, et cetera. I hate the cliché about how time heals but I have really found that to be the case.

2 1/2 years after leaving ICU, I finally began to enjoy being alive. Now, 3 1/2 years on, I find myself doing all kinds of interesting things that I would never have done but for that horrific diversion into ICU. I can’t quite go as far as saying I’m glad that it happened to me, but perhaps the experience has had some positives.

[BigH63 in reply to ZanderB]

Thank you that’s uplifting and somewhere down the road I hope that is how I feel. Because if this is life now and how it’s going to be? I’m ready to give it a miss. 🤷‍♂️