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Lena L.

Ms. Lena L. accompanied her partner through a serious neurological illness that resulted in a stay in an intensive care unit and rehabilitation. She recorded her partner's time in an induced coma and the many unusual experiences that followed in a diary.

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Ms. Lena L. suffered from the long waiting times and the uncertainty.

In order to visit her partner, Ms Lena L. had to wait outside the intensive care unit for a long time. This caused her anxiety and insecurity.

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Once in this intensive care unit / I think that was also when I was there for the first time, I don't know either. No, when I saw something, that was easy for me. I didn't know there what was going on behind the door in the ICU. You always have to sign in. I signed in. They said he was just still / there had just been some incident. I think I then waited outside that door for about 1 1/2 hours. Yes. That's where I got a little worried. I don't know to this day what happened there. I do not know if he / he is purpose / exactly. He fell out of bed once in the first intensive care unit. That's what they told us then. I don't know if he didn't fall out of bed there too or if something with the chair pan or something / something was there that they had to work really hard. Yes. And once there he really / there he couldn't breathe. That was also in the intensive care unit. I don't even remember how that happened. Um, yes, that was still bad. But I had the feeling that the nurse had it 100% under control. He then worked with him to make sure that he could breathe again.

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