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• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 18 >> Although she was very weak, gradually her friend was able to sit up, stand, walk with a Zimmer frame and have nutritional drinks to help her recovery.

Her best friend spent two weeks in ICU. She was the closest person to her, visited her daily and is now her main carer.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 18 >> Her friend was scared about being on a busy ward and having to do more for herself when she was still very weak.

Her best friend spent two weeks in ICU. She was the closest person to her, visited her daily and is now her main carer.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 61-70 >> Interview 27 >> She felt her husband needed specialist support for his brain injury but wasn't getting this on the ward he was moved to.

Her husband had cardiac arrest and was admitted to ICU. She is his full-time carer and worries about leaving him on his own because of his memory.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 61-70 >> Interview 37 >> After several bureaucratic problems, he was able to transfer his wife to a private hospital, where she would get the physiotherapy and psychological s

His wife spent 49 days in ICU because of severe lung problems. After her illness, he became involved in helping improve services for ICU patients.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 61-70 >> Interview 31 >> His wife needed a lot of support and, in the rehabilitation unit, nurses had time to spend with her and physiotherapists helped her become mobile agai

He cares full-time for his wife, who was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1998. She has been admitted to ICU several times and recently had a stroke.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 30 & under >> Interview 21 >> She was glad to have her partner back home but he had just begun to realise how weak and debilitated he'd become.

In 2005 her partner had a car accident and spent over four months in ICU. She visited daily while her mother looked after her new baby.