Diaries can help!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/diaries-aid-mental-recovery/

The War Is Not Over: PTSD Common Among ICU Survivors. |

Dr. Michael Green, a doctor who is involved with Comics and  Medicine (http://www.graphicmedicine.org),  kindly forwarded me this link.   The War Continue reading →

Great article in NYT blog

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nightmares-after-the-i-c-u/

AFTER the ICU, animation

a short explanatory animation by Riley Thompson https://vimeo.com/67394158

Booklet “After the ICU”

by RileyThompson for download here: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/icudelirium/docs/AfterTheICU_RileyThompson.pdf

What you need to know

by Robin Owings Over 5 million U.S. Adults enter an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) each year. Roughly half of these Continue reading →

1 in 3 have PTSD

This is evidence of what  often happens to folks who have been on ventilators in the ICU.  Note: PTSD can Continue reading →

Caregivers and Music

Nice article from Sally Abrahms (also in the AARP Bulletin March 2013). http://www.sallyabrahms.com/health-and-medicine/sally-abrahms-how-music-therapy-helps-people-heal