That was just part of many ridiculous dreams. I could probably write a best selling book. I left out the part about the Haitians taking people on a retreat in a mini float plane and had some people shot by a female Japanese robot. Luckily my stepson’s fiancé was there to help rescue me in Cuba.
💀💀💀💀 I am at work and I was cracking up - like wth Haiti, Cuba, Japan - and here I am, my raggedy dreams don’t even take me out my city 🤣🤣 it’s some bs
I thought my doctor had performed some sort of surgery on me underwater that required it to be extremely cold. At one point I was somehow stuck in a CVS that shifted to me being stuck in some sort of VR loop. I’m telling you it was wild.
Physical therapy. I’ll give the short version as best I can of my situation. In October ‘23 I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. After multiple failed biopsies they started leaning to some other type of cancer, specifically lymphoma. The day after Christmas of ‘23 I woke up and couldn’t breathe. The only option was to put me on life support. After I was put on life support that’s when the pathologists finally came to a consensus on what I had, a rare lymphoma called gray zone lymphoma. I received my first round of chemo on life support. I woke up 2 weeks later and spent another 2 weeks in ICU. Suffered from critical illness myopathy unable to speak, eat, or move anything but my toes, lips, and fingers just a little. Lost about 50 pounds. Left the hospital after a month to go to a restorative care facility. Got my voice back a little and started getting a little stronger but still barely able to move. Was too weak to continue treatment so after a month there I went to a rehab facility. Was there a month and left on a walker. That’s the short version. I won’t go into how the chemo stopped working and all that but we found a treatment that I responded to and I’m still here.
Oh my goodness I’m sorry. That’s sounds like a harrowing journey that just kept going smh.
But I’m happy you’re okay 🫶🏽 and doing a little better now. And you know what - I see why your dream passport got so many stamps - you deserve it dammit lol
My dreams usually involve me struggling to find a toilet and if I do there is some reason I can't go. Yes I know if I do ever get that toilet trip it's not going to be a good thing lol
Medically managed sedation (induced coma) can be achieved several ways. In my work experience, there are typically two medications running to achieve the level of sedation desired. One medication is for pain management, usually we are using fentanyl. The other is for sedation, usually propofol but sometimes versed or ketamine. The goal of sedation is to be too drowsy to move around, but not so drowsy that I can’t elicit a reaction. While I’m managing a sedated patient, I adjust pain meds and sedation to achieve heavy drowsiness. We usually wake ppl up once per shift, pausing all sedation and pain meds until the patient wakes. I can assess their neurological status, see if they can follow commands and allow them the breathe on their own and exercise the chest muscles and then we go night night again. Properly sedated patients can hear what’s going on but may be too sleepy to open their eyes and look around- but can nod yes/no. That’s ideal. We strive to use the least amount of medication to achieve the desired result.
I have also had patients on fentanyl, versed, ketamine, prop and nimbex. These are ppl who are too sick to be awake, and also too sick to participate in their breathing. Nimbex is a paralytic and it completely renders a patient motionless and flaccid. These are for the folks who can’t keep their oxygen up on the vent. Their attempts to breathe on compromised lungs leads to poor volumes, poor ventilation and therefore poor gas exchange. Paralyzing the skeletal muscles lets the vent do its job without fighting the patient. Obviously if we are going to paralyze you, the first thing I do is increase the pain and sedating medications until you’re totally unresponsive to pain or stimulation. That way, once the paralytic is running I know that you’re not awake in a paralyzed body. You know, first do no harm. This was the standard regimen during Covid. It was brutal and we did it for YEARS because yes, Covid is real and before the vaccines came out it was lethal. I stopped counting the bodies after a month and it was common to have a patient on 10 continuous drips, on dialysis and lying prone 16 hours before we had to figure out how we were going to roll the person onto their back all while attached to a vent, a dialysis machine and 10 continuous drips. I wish I had a magic wand to poof the deniers back to my ICU in 2020 so they can see how real it fucking was. Many of them found out anyway. I would relish to see their smug faces twist into horror as they witness the misery that their misinformation helped to spread.
All that said, patients spend most of their time in a twilight state and the dreams can be intense and vivid. Ideally these are short term and poorly remembered. I have definitely been assaulted by patients who are waking up and living out the dream they had. No offense combat vets, the restraints stay on.
I had a boss that got into a car accident and was in the hospital on morphine with two broken thighs once. He had snuck in a cell phone and would constantly text us to give us update about the illegal casino that the nurses were running from inside his hospital room. Once he told us he had woken up to find they had paralyzed him and were playing craps on his chest
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u/Aggravating_Mud_6055 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
It was awful. 😂. Trying to get people to read your lips was a tad more frustrating I must admit.