re: #103 wrenchwench

Thanks for introducing the pump head phenomenon to me. Something like it also affects those who have been mechanically ventilated, which I was for 4 or 5 days. I was lucky to have a stay in a rehab hospital after the ICU.

My husband. He was badly affected (perhaps due to his advancing Parkinson’s). However, when he had a triple bypass, he came through it well, and they told us he was lucky that all repairs were on the front of the heart, and the heart didn’t have to be taken out to work on the back side. They said that was where real personality changes could come about. We know personally six people who had such changes, and four of them had their marriages fail very quickly. Some of those affected seemed to wake up as different people altogether.