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Aged 31-40
Interview 05  

Interview 05

Age at Interview: 40
Sex: Female
Background: Occupation: housing officer. Marital status: married. Number of children: 2. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:Had pneumonia and severe sepsis. Was in intensive care for 22 days, the High Dependency Unit for 10 days and just over a week on a general ward.


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She found it difficult to hold a pen and felt frustrated because her writing was unintelligible (she had pneumonia and sepsis).

 



I just couldn't speak and I was so frustrated because I couldn't speak. I couldn't even write, 'cause my sister gave me a pad and a pen, and she said try and write, I couldn't write. And I'd write things, I'd go like, I'd point to them, and then when she looked it'd just be scribble and she would be saying, "I can't understand, write it down or try and say it but try a bit." But she was really good at understanding what I was trying to communicate, my husband was like hopeless. He was like saying thinks like, "Hoarse, you're hoarse?" [laughs]. He was just hopeless, and she was like really good but I couldn't write anything.

I couldn't even really, could barely lift a pen up to write on the pad and then the writing was just, it wasn't even writing, it was just marks on the pad. I thought I was writing stuff, and I thought that my writing was okay and I was frustrated with people when they were like, I'd write something and they'd all look at each other and they were like...
Jonathan Miller - Intensive care
Intensive Care: Patients' Experiences
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