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❤️‍🔥 Hello all, I’m a 27-year-old life coach, coma survivor, and disabled left lung amputee. I help chronic illness warriors build mental resilience around...

❤️‍🔥 Hello all, I’m a 27-year-old life coach, coma survivor, and disabled left ...

•4 months ago

Do you ever feel the same again?

I was in a coma due to chest and throat infection and had the most terrifying vivid twisted but realistic dream while I was under for a month and honestly part...

I was in a coma due to chest and throat infection and had the most terrifying vi...

•4 months ago

Is this normal

Hi last year I spent several months in intensive care and still to this day don't fully understand why or what caused this since then I dint think I am coping...

Hi last year I spent several months in intensive care and still to this day don'...

•4 months ago

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My brother got into a car acciddent and nurses put him back to sleep eveytime he gets agitated (please help)

Hi guys over the weekend my brother crashed into the free way with the wall concrete that divides the cars its been reported he wasnt able to breath properly...

Hi guys over the weekend my brother crashed into the free way with the wall conc...

•4 months ago

Lung damage, ECMO, time taken to recover.

Hi, my uncle was diagnosed with pnemonia and a 90% lung damage on 18Dec. He was put on ventilator and ECMO on 20th, its been 35 days ans there has been no...

Hi, my uncle was diagnosed with pnemonia and a 90% lung damage on 18Dec. He was ...

•4 months ago

Loss of use Hands and Feet after medically induced coma

My husband was on a ventilator for 24 days with a fentanyl and propofol medically induced coma so that his lungs could heal from Covid. Oddly, it took him...

My husband was on a ventilator for 24 days with a fentanyl and propofol medicall...

•4 months ago

mum in nccu

my mum had a fall and injured herself so badly that she is paralysed in hospital…. This just happened on Saturday and I could really do with hearing from...

my mum had a fall and injured herself so badly that she is paralysed in hospital...

•4 months ago

Home now

Hi I would like to share what I've encountered the last 6 months and would love some feedback from anyone I fell ill back in late June 23 It seemed like a cold...

Hi I would like to share what I've encountered the last 6 months and would love ...

•4 months ago

⭐️⭐️my COVID journey ⭐️⭐️

⭐️covid survivors let’s keep on fighting, let’s help each other & spread awareness of the real impact & life changing difficulties we face❤️❤️ Ladysurvivor1...

⭐️covid survivors let’s keep on fighting, let’s help each other & spread awarene...

•4 months ago

⭐️covid survivors let’s keep on fighting, let’s help each other & spread awareness of the real impact & life changing difficulties we face

🧏🏽‍♀️My COVID Journey: A Tale of Resilience and Hope (Part 1) In the depths of January 2021, my life took an unexpected turn when I found myself in the...

🧏🏽‍♀️My COVID Journey: A Tale of Resilience and Hope (Part 1) In the depths...

•4 months ago

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Anniversary

on May 7 2014 I was admitted with sepsis etc. Hospitalized 30 days. Not expected to live. I did. My anniversary is approaching with me feeling joy but...

on May 7 2014 I was admitted with sepsis etc. Hospitalized 30 days. Not expected...

•4 months ago

Ruptured Aorta Recovery

I have recently bee discharged from hospital following a ruptured abdominal aorta aneurysm. I spent 10 days in the HDU and was discharged from hospital after a...

I have recently bee discharged from hospital following a ruptured abdominal aort...

•5 months ago

dad with sepsis not waking up

hi there,I’m really needing some sort hope and would appreciate any positive story’s my amazing dad 12 days ago had the worst tummy ache of his life. He...

hi there,I’m really needing some sort hope and would appreciate any positive sto...

•5 months ago

Agitation will waking from sedation in ICU on vent and ecmo

Hi my uncle had a low oxygen stroke on 18 Dec and diagnosed with pnemonia and put on a vent machine and Ecmo on 20th Dec. He still has low recovery on lungs...

Hi my uncle had a low oxygen stroke on 18 Dec and diagnosed with pnemonia and pu...

•5 months ago

where can you get help to deal with what’s happened..?

Hi everyone…… My husband had a ruptured aorta and kidney failure back in July, he was in an induced coma etc, lost him twice but we are among the lucky ones,...

Hi everyone…… My husband had a ruptured aorta and kidney failure back in July, ...

•5 months ago

sleepiness or agitation

hi My husband suffered a brain injury in a RTA on 24/11/3023. He gained consciousness about 2.5 weeks ago. He is still in ICU being weaned off his vent with...

hi My husband suffered a brain injury in a RTA on 24/11/3023. He gained consci...

•5 months ago

A question if you've had a tracheostomy.

Is it just me or does anyone else regularly get food and drink into your windpipe. Its not a full blown choking episode but very close, and requires a slow big...

Is it just me or does anyone else regularly get food and drink into your windpip...

•5 months ago

mom in icu, opened eyes and was showing signs of consciousness, but now cant open eyes and wont respond

Long story short my mom has been in the ICU for pneumonia for 2 weeks about, recently a couple of days ago she opened her eyes and was able to respond to us...

Long story short my mom has been in the ICU for pneumonia for 2 weeks about, rec...

•5 months ago

icu lower the sedation Propofol or whatever then she start shivering so bad that they have to add mor sedation propofel to stop it. we stuc

I have a question about my mother icu condition. after cardiac arrest she was responding and they did some type of thematic hyperthermia treatment where they...

I have a question about my mother icu condition. after cardiac arrest she was re...

•5 months ago

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help icu. shakes

I have a question about my mother icu condition. after cardiac arrest she was responding and they did some type of thematic hyperthermia treatment where they...

I have a question about my mother icu condition. after cardiac arrest she was re...

•5 months ago

Continued fatigue/weakness.

Hi all.I was in icu hospital for 3 months this time 4 years ago with acute respiratory failure and pneumonia. I was on ECMO for 25 days with 4 failed attempts...

Hi all.I was in icu hospital for 3 months this time 4 years ago with acute respi...

•5 months ago

coma survivors group

if you are looking to get connected with other life support survivors please Visit the Coma Survivors (Survivors of life support) group on Facebook.

if you are looking to get connected with other life support survivors please Vis...

•5 months ago