Originally Posted by
shorthauldad
Not wishing to seem dismissive, but I've never really understood what the phrase "life-changing" is supposed to mean, it always felt a bit too much like newspeak to me. The UK [still] has a Prime Minister who seems to be doing just fine, if somewhat more cautious about the risks of Covid than he was before he ended up in ICU.
If you speak French, there is a patient who got COVID this Winter, ended up in ICU but not on ECMO, survived and is explaining what happened to him during and since. He has been interviewed for various newspaper and is very active on Twittter. He is still in hospitals dealing with the aftermath (he was able to walk only 3 months after being COVID free). He is very clear he is lucky and was not even in the most damaging ICU there is. It is very sobering and a good view of how life changing it can be, because it truly is. A lot of things are different after, as it is the same for people who got diagnosed chronic diseases for example.