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A good day

I'm having a good day! It doesn't happen often but when it does it should be celebrated! Yesterday I decided to start a new patchwork quilt. I hunted out...

I'm having a good day! It doesn't happen often but when it does it should be cel...

•12 years ago

Finally

To everyone thankyou you dont realise until you listen to other people who have been through critical illness that your not going nuts......its so...

To everyone thankyou you dont realise until you listen to other people who have ...

•12 years ago

Has anyone else looked into post traumatic stress disorder and realise you have it!?

I came out of hospital in feb 2010 and have spent some time trying to research why I feel as I do! , I am getting on with my life but have realised I am...

I came out of hospital in feb 2010 and have spent some time trying to research w...

•12 years ago

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Spatial disorientation

I was in an ICU for 3 weeks in December 2010 following a Boerhaave spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus. My lungs packed up so was on a ventilator; nil by...

I was in an ICU for 3 weeks in December 2010 following a Boerhaave spontaneous r...

•12 years ago

The long road to recovery

After 88 days in ICU I was tranferred to a ward, something I found very daunting, suddenly in a place knowone seemed to know where I had come from or what I...

After 88 days in ICU I was tranferred to a ward, something I found very daunting...

•12 years ago

Compulsive reading thank you!

I have known about ICU steps for some time and used the booklets on the critical care unit where I work. I just joined the website and wanted to express my...

I have known about ICU steps for some time and used the booklets on the critical...

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•12 years ago

New year's eve

About this time of year, three years ago, I began to notice occasional difficulty swallowing. It was December before I saw my GP. and was sent for an...

About this time of year, three years ago, I began to notice occasional difficult...

•12 years ago

Suntan Sea and ICU

I had come home from a wonderful 2 week holiday in Spain with my wife. I felt refreshed and relaxed ready for the working months ahead. With the aim to earn...

I had come home from a wonderful 2 week holiday in Spain with my wife. I felt r...

•12 years ago

This sounds silly, but does anyone else have difficulty cleaning their teeth since being on a ventilator?

When I first came home I found putting a toothbrush in my mouth made me gag and retch, I just couldn't do it. I still sometimes have problems after two years.

When I first came home I found putting a toothbrush in my mouth made me gag and ...

•12 years ago

How Many of You Still Have Dreams and Nightmares Since They Have Left Hospital?

As I have said elsewhere these are driving me mad. Is it normal to keep having them?

As I have said elsewhere these are driving me mad. Is it normal to keep having t...

•12 years ago

How life can change so fast.

2010 had been such a great year, my wife's parents both celebrated their 80th birthdays and 60th wedding anniversary and my son got married at the wonderful...

2010 had been such a great year, my wife's parents both celebrated their 80th bi...

•12 years ago

ICU wasn't in my birthing plan!

I was pregnant, but had gestational diabetes, so went into hospital on 6th January 2011, 2 weeks before my due date, so I could be induced. Everything was...

I was pregnant, but had gestational diabetes, so went into hospital on 6th Janua...

•12 years ago

My ICU story and after.....

On the morning of 17th July 2007 I was particularly happy. Summer Term had just ended so I had 6 weeks of holiday from my Teaching Assistant job ahead, my...

On the morning of 17th July 2007 I was particularly happy. Summer Term had just ...

•12 years ago

My ITU Experience

It was 7am in the morning back in December 2007 when my carer arrived to shower and dress me. She found me unconscious in my recliner chair. Previously,...

It was 7am in the morning back in December 2007 when my carer arrived to shower ...

•12 years ago

Does anyone else feel like a' changed person' since Icu, if so are you able to say in what way, I have withdrawn into myself and am 'nervy'

•12 years ago

Does anyone else suffer 'flashbacks' ? I was in a shop and the beeping from a till took me back into Icu, the bleeping from the machines etc

It was very scary , I still dream the dreams I had in Icu, has this happened to other people ?

It was very scary , I still dream the dreams I had in Icu, has this happened to ...

•12 years ago

One Year On from the ICU

Its been one year since I started my recovery from an attack of Weil's Disease which very nearly killed me, and put me in ICU for 5 weeks. It has been a much...

Its been one year since I started my recovery from an attack of Weil's Disease w...

•12 years ago

How understanding were the consultants/staff when you explained about the your experience of icu psychosis?

I found that whilst they had had patients with this before, their priorities were to make me physically well - understable of course. The post icu interest and...

I found that whilst they had had patients with this before, their priorities wer...

•12 years ago

How have you communicated with your family and friends about the experience?

Even after almost 14 years I still find it difficult to speak to my family about what happened and how I felt, or what it was like for them. This has felt...

Even after almost 14 years I still find it difficult to speak to my family about...

ICUsteps•12 years ago