An account of ICU delirium, which some patients on #ventilators will experience. Scary. (I count myself lucky; I haven't had it.)

https://bit.ly/3a1m2ue 

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"In the months after I left the ICU, a numb post-traumatic stress disorder set in, punctuated only by bouts of crying when I’d see hospitals on TV or someone swimming underwater."

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"I quit writing jobs because I no longer felt I had a point of view. It took six weeks before I could walk up a staircase without getting winded, but six months to start pitching projects again. It was another year before the nightmares went away."

P.S. Ian Williams, the author, talks about how doctors will ask patients, “Who is the president of the United States?”

One of my #coronavirus roommates at the hospital would always respond, "Don't make me say that man's name."

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