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Testimonial: ICU Recovery After 69 Days — Clara’s Mom Survived Ventilation & Tracheostomy!
Today, I have another testimonial from a very
happy intensivecarehotline.com client.
Let me read out the email from Clara.
My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com, and this is another quick tip for families in intensive care. Clara writes.
“Hi Patrik, firstly, I wanted to thank you for your help and support over what was the most trying and scariest time for my family while we sat beside our 80-year-old mom’s bedside while she was in ICU for an extended period of time of 69 days. We were approached on multiple occasions by teams of doctors in ICU, alerting us to them holding out little hope for mom’s recovery.
Without your help and insights, I think we could have eventually been pushed into a different choice. Having someone with insider knowledge armed me with confidence, vocabulary, and knowledge of our rights in this most difficult and trying situation. We knew that we just had to give mom time, and she would show us which direction she wanted to go.
Fast forward to
the present, and my mom is now in her 3rd week of rehabilitation at a different hospital and is going strong. She’s eating diced food. The tracheostomy stoma has fully healed, i.e., this lady had a tracheostomy and was long-term
ventilated initially, and there’s not even a scar. She’s feeding herself, attending to most of her own personal care, like feeding herself, brushing her teeth and hair, etc.
The OT team has visited her home without making arrangements for any adjustments to the family house ready for mom to return. The highlight of every day for me is going to the hospital after work to chat, share a meal, and have a laugh with my mom. Such a blessing, which none of us can take for granted.
Again, a very
heartfelt thank you from myself and my family. Your service is literally a lifeline, which I would recommend to anyone going through having a loved one in ICU. I’m glad we didn’t require a service for intensive care at home but grateful that it was
an option and know that the ICU team, I’m not going to mention the hospital here, are now very aware of your service, Intensive Care at Home. I wish you all the best for establishing this service in my hometown.
Thank you and kind regards,
from Clara.”
Thank you, Clara, for sharing all of this, obviously remember very vividly working with you and your family when your mom was in ICU after a car accident with multiple fractures, ventilated, tracheostomy, and
ICU was becoming very negative, saying she wouldn’t survive and was giving you and your family the doom and gloom. And like I always
say, 70 to 90% of ICU patients survive.
The odds are in a patient’s favor. Why would your mom not survive, age
doesn’t really matter. With your positivity and also your ability to take guidance, which is also very important, families in intensive getting, they can do it all by themselves. They’re often mistaken. Give yourself a pat on the shoulder that you have taken guidance. And we’re able to be instructed, that is also very important as part of having a family member in intensive care.
Many families just
give up, they don’t know what to do. They know our website, but they just can’t get their head around getting some help and sitting down and making the effort and outcomes are often, they’re not good if families don’t get help. Kudos to you and your family for taking advice.
I have worked in critical care nursing for 25 years in three different countries where I worked as a nurse manager for over 5
years in intensive care. I’ve been consulting and advocating for families in intensive care since 2013 here at intensivecarehotline.com. I can very confidently say that we have saved many lives with our consulting and advocacy, because of our insights. You can verify that on our testimonial at intensivecarehotline.com.
You can verify it on our intensivecarehotline.com podcast section where we have done client interviews. Because our advice is absolutely life-changing.
The biggest challenge for families in intensive care is simply that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t know what to look for. They don’t know what questions to ask. They don’t know
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That’s why we help you to improve your life instantly, making sure you make informed decisions, have peace of mind, control, power, and influence, making sure your loved one gets best care and treatment always. That’s why you can join a growing number of members and clients that we have helped over the years,
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Thank you so much for watching.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com and I will talk to you in a few days.
Take care for now.
