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• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 51-60 >> Interview 20 >> To help his wife understand that she'd been hallucinating, nurses took her back to visit ICU when she was on a ward.

In 2004 his wife and her mother spent six months in hospital and was admitted to ICU three times because of sepsis and heart problems.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 61-70 >> Interview 14 >> Doctors gave her husband a brain scan and reassured her that, though he was hallucinating, there was no evidence of brain damage.

She has cared for her husband full-time since he had a heart attack and life threatening infection that meant he had to have his leg amputated.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 51-60 >> Interview 05 >> Seeing his wife hallucinating was very distressing and he wished he'd known more about hallucinations beforehand.

In 2003 his wife was involved in an accident in the home. He stayed at the hospital for two weeks while his wife was in the first ICU.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 51-60 >> Interview 20 >> Their relative had a lot of hallucinations while on the ward but became more aware as time went on.

In 2004 his wife and her mother spent six months in hospital and was admitted to ICU three times because of sepsis and heart problems.

• Intensive care >> Intensive care: experiences of family & friends >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 23 >> His partner regained physical strength quite quickly and is back to work but still asks questions about her time in ICU.

In 2006 his partner spent four weeks in ICU because of pneumonia. He visited her every day, sharing the visiting with his partner's parents.