Experience of Intensive Care Unit

He had some multiple problems at the time when he went to the hospital. To start with, he had some sort of heart attack. It was a mini heart attack, put it that way. And eventually they found out in a matter of days, it took them that long to find and to say, oh, he got pneumonia. What happened, the day he was taken to the hospital and we thought probably he'd be in and out for a day or two at the most. And the sad situation is the first day when they reckoned that they couldn't help him to maintain his breathing, and he was put onto the ventilator overnight. And that was a cut-off point to us because we couldn't say a word to him before he He has gone. When he was conscious, we left him in good state of health, in a sense that he was at least communicating and telling us, don't worry, it's OK, you go home. There was a birthday party, so you go ahead with that. During the day, he had a fantastic communication level. One night we went, he was choking up, OK. The following day, we saw he got a tube through his throat, I think linking up to his stomach, lungs and from there onward he ended up being breathless. Although there was quite a support of oxygen, but this was of no use to us because we thought they could have done a better job and although the consultant was there at hand to tell us the progress, it seemed to be very fictitious, you know, because if there was no ray of hope they should have told us, they should have spoken in clear cut terms that the family We should have been ready for that, but when it all cut off at Stoke one night, we were called in, and we thought probably there could be some good news, but they said, we'll give you a chance of seeing him for a few minutes, and then we'll switch off everything. And it was a very, very sad, disturbing moment for all of us who were around at that time. God bless you.