Story about Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome .

Something Unexpected

Jun 11, 2017

By: Darrell


 

 
ABOUT ME
   

I AM JUST YOUR NORMAL GUY THAT WENT THROUGH A TRAUMATIC ICU EXPERIENCE AND WANT TO HELP OTHERS. 

_I WENT IN FOR A ROUTINE KNEE REPLACEMENT ON MAY 26 THAT WENT BAD. THEY SAID THERE WAS AN ALLERGIC REACTION THAT CAUSED ME TO GO SEPSIS. FROM THERE I WENT INTO SEPTIC SHOCK WHERE IT STARTED SHUTTING DOWN MY ORGANS INCLUDING KIDNEYS AND LUNGS. MY RIGHT LUNG COLLAPSED WERE I NEEDED A CHEST TUBE AND INTRODUCED ME TO ARDS. THEY HAD TO QUIT GIVING MY BLOOD THINNER AND ADD A FILTER TO BLOCK THE BLOOD CLOTS THEY SUSPECTED WOULD COME AND THEY DID. THEY ADDED A TRACH TO HELP ME BREATH AND REST. WHEN I STARTED WAKING UP SOME 20 DAYS LATER I HAD LOST ALL MUSCLE MASS AND COULD NOT MOVE OR TALK.AFTER THE TRACH WAS INSTALLED I SEEMED TO GET BETTER WHERE I STAYED IN ICU UNTIL JUNE 30. I WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO 2 OTHER REHABILITATION HOSPITALS FOR TRACH REMOVAL AND OVERALL STRENGTH. SOME  18 MONTHS LATER I STILL HAVE LINGERING PROBLEMS FROM THIS TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE SUCH AS PTSD, ANXIETY, MUSCLE WEAKNESS, NEUROPATHY,  AND MENTAL ISSUES. I ALSO HAVE A SCARRED LUNG FROM THE ARDS ALONG WITH OTHER ISSUES IN BREATHING. I COULDN'T HAVE MADE THIS JOURNEY WITHOUT MY FAMILY AND ESPECIALLY MY WIFE ALONG WITH THE DOCTORS AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY._
_PLEASE CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE:_
_WWW.EZ-CAREGIVER.COM_
 


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