Thank you all for positive posts. He was absolutely filled with all sorts of drugs to keep him sedated for over 3 weeks. Plus he was chilled for 24 hours to prevent brain damage. I AM so lucky he did not suffer brain damage. On
He did suffer hallucinations though - ICU Psychosis - at one point I really though another man had come back to me as they said that they wouldn't be able to tell if there was any damage until he was talking.
I was in his room and two nurses had left. My DDH signed that he wanted to write (he had a trachy) I held the pad for him and he wrote 'nice pair of legs'
I was mortified - this wasn't the man I married, this wasn't my man. I was very tearful and put the note in the bin in case the nurse (who he was obviously talking about -in my mind - saw it) When I got home I rang my best friend, my sister, his sister in tears. A couple of weeks later when he had his speech back we were talking about the strange things he saw in ICU. I mentioned the note and he said that he saw it made me cry and he didn't know why. 'I was talking about the mannaquin that was lying on the floor' Phew!!! he still couldn't believe that I never saw it.
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