And after a few days of that they started to give me some sleeping pills which didn't really work either. And not, you know, not be able to sleep at all.
And then they'd all go away and it would be night time and I would just stare at the clock and stare at the machines. And so I'd have a kind of day pattern of people visiting me. And I was convinced if I let myself fall asleep I'd stop breathing or I'd choke on all this gunk in my throat.
But also I was utterly terrified to go back to sleep because I understood enough that there was a problem with my breathing. And I had no idea whether it was morning or night or, you know, it was like kind of an extreme form of jetlag.
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And part of that was I couldn't go back to sleep because you know, obviously I was just kind of pumped full of drugs and totally disorientated. The strongest kind of impression I had having been woken up was that I then couldn't go back to sleep. Others were put off sleeping by nightmares. Some people were afraid to sleep in case they pulled out breathing tubes. One man said the nurses made him stay awake all day so that he would gradually adopt a normal pattern.
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Some ICUs have no windows and, along with disrupted sleep patterns, this can cause loss of normal day / night pattern of wakefulness and sleep. And she said, "Oh, I'm the midwife that's looking after you, she said, "it's three o'clock in the morning and I may be popping in and out." And I said, "Look I haven't had any sleep at all, and I just managed to get off and you've just woken me up so I don't need anything, if you could just let me sleep and then maybe in the morning you could talk to me." So she said to me "Um, well I do need to pop in and out." I said, "Ok, whatever." I said to her, she might have thought I was a bit strange, but I couldn't focus on her cos she was very close to me. And she was right in front of me so I said to her, "Can you just go and stand over there and put the light on?" So she gave me a sleeping tablet.Īnd throughout that night a midwife, I think it was about three or four o'clock in the morning, one midwife walked in, and stood right up next to me and woke me up, said, "Hello, hello my name is and I'm the midwife looking after you." So I opened my eyes and she was right in my face and she wore glasses, and I think my head was spinning because I had actually got a bit of sleep I think, but she woke me up before I had got enough and my head was very spinning. So she said, "what I want to do is I want to give you some sleeping tablets, and you can at least just have half an hour's sleep because you haven't slept and you're snappy at everybody and you're very anxious at everything." So I said, "ok". And the nurse, midwives come in and out so I didn't get any sleep throughout the day and I didn't get any sleep throughout the night and this was going on til Friday. I was awake all throughout the day because I had so many people in and out, and also because I had my own visitors come in and out and they had to come in because they had to help me with my son. On the left hand side of me there was a door with a light shining right through and also I think with the effect of the morphine I wasn't getting any sleep I couldn't like, you know, settle at all. The Thursday I didn't get any sleep, when they took me into that room because the fluorescent light was on ahead, on top of me, adjacent to me where the sluice room was, a fluorescent light was on. Throughout the Thursday I had so many people come in and out, while I was in ITU on the Wednesday when I just come round I didn't get any sleep at all because of, I don't know why, because the light was on I just didn't get any sleep. Intensive care: Patients' experiences Sleep, dreams and hallucinations in ICU Attitudes to life during and after recovery.Information for people admitted to ICU for emergency treatment.Sleep, dreams and hallucinations in ICU.Coming round and regaining consciousness in ICU.
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