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Evelyne E.

Ms. Evelyn E. can no longer remember exactly when she was admitted to the intensive care unit. It all happened very quickly. When she woke up after the two weeks in the coma, she was very confused. She reports feelings of anger, questions or apologies, and the importance of communication in the ICU.

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Mrs. Evelyne E. wakes up slowly and in confusion.

Mrs. Evelyne E. slowly woke up and was confused between hallucination and beginning perception of reality.

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So, I don't remember when I went in anyway; so, along the way, I don't know when, I woke up and I was hearing loud music and in my head I was thinking, there's a party in the village next to me. But it was strange, I was there in my bed, suspended; in fact I was drugged I think and then I had visions. Then, I saw people; and then suddenly, I recognized my daughter and my son. Then I said: "well, they are also at the party", but I saw them with distance anyway, it was not clear my vision either. Then. after my daughter approached me, then she said to me you like this music? Then I was going to answer, then she told me you can't because you have a tube in your throat. I didn't ask myself any questions about it. So I nodded my head and said no. And then what do I remember of this passage? That I wanted to communicate something and I asked if I could write; and then they handed me a slate where I could write on it. But I don't remember at all what I asked, what I wrote, so I've forgotten since. This is the first contact I had with it, it was this party in the village, I thought we were at a party. It must have been a bit euphoric, I don't know.

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Ms. Evelyn E. can no longer remember exactly when she was admitted to the intensive care unit. It all happened very quickly. When she woke up after the two weeks in the coma, she was very confused. She reports feelings of anger, questions or apologies, and the importance of communication in the ICU.

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Mrs. Evelyne E. wakes up slowly and in confusion.

Mrs. Evelyne E. slowly woke up and was confused between hallucination and beginning perception of reality.

State of consciousness and memory issues

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Feelings of inferiority.

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