Blindness: perceptions under mechanical ventilation
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Otavio T. Ranzani
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Blindness: perceptions under mechanical ventilation
Received: 4 February 2013 Accepted: 28 February 2013 Published online: 28 March 2013 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and ESICM 2013 O. T. Ranzani ()) Medical Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Medicine Discipline, Hospital das Clı´nicas, Universidade de Sa˜o Paulo, Rua Ene´as Carvalho de Aguiar, 255, sala 6040, 6° andar, Cerqueira Cesar, Sa˜o Paulo 05403-000, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: ?55-11-26616457 Fax: ?55-11-26616336
I wrote these words and constructed these images after conversations with a patient who I attended during my first year of critical care fellowship. He was 71 years old and had been mechanically ventilated two times in his life because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations. After ICU discharge, I followed him until hospital discharge. When one reaches the ridge of the stone castle, the inconsistency of the sea dawns on. as a baby cry going to the undesired cradle; as the birds coming from a sunny vacation.
When the moon’s essence breaks in through the lonesome thought, the glasses fog up with a cloud of breath! like the window wiping feelings out of smiles, like butterflies floating in the rain. When one comes upon the edge of the abyss, and life spreads out your arms and you cannot perceive little ants eating up your memories, the wind can stroke the inner door, and then your eyes must realize: Life is something wild Touching your ears While your mind tries to puzzle out the honest truth. Otavio T. Ranzani
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