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Aged 41-50
Interview 01  

Interview 01

Age at Interview: 41
Sex: Female
Background: Occupation: nurse. Marital status: married. Number of children: 1. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:Was admitted to intensive care in 1998 because of a complication during pregnancy, leading to septic shock. Was in ICU for 11 days and in general ward for 2 weeks. Recovered well and has had no further problems related to that illness.


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The follow-up team explained how she might feel over the coming months and a psychologist helped her talk about some of her feelings and experiences.

 



So I was home within three weeks. I'd had a chat to a couple of the consultants from the Intensive Care and they already, the hospital I was in already had a follow-up clinic that they'd asked us a few months before and they'd only actually followed a couple of patients up. So they asked me if I'd like to be part of the follow-up clinic which I'm glad I did really. 

As I say they explained how I'd be feeling over the next few weeks, or the next months. I also saw a specialist in Behavioural Medicine who's part of the follow-up team and she was absolutely brilliant. At first I was quite dubious 'cause I thought it would be like counselling and they asked my husband as well, not because, with several reasons, obviously as I was a member of staff on the unit, I'd been a patient on the unit, we'd lost a baby, I'd remembered being resuscitated, my husband had witnessed some of it 'cause it was a few minutes into the resuscitation before they'd realised that he was just stood there in the wings, so he'd witnessed some of that as well. So they thought it would be good for both of us and we were both a bit dubious and a bit sceptical and he declined. He said that he would be fine, and I said, "no I would". I wanted to go ahead and see the specialist, the behavioural specialist, and she was absolutely brilliant. I don't think I could have done it without her and I suppose it was a bit like counselling but it was probably a bit more involved than that.
Jonathan Miller - Intensive care
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