THE 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO BE DIFFICULT AND DEMANDING WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS CRITICALLY ILL IN INTENSIVE CARE!

Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM , where we instantly improve the lives of Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care, so that you can have PEACE OF MIND, real power, real control and so that you can influence decision making fast, even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse in Intensive Care!

In last week’s blog I showed you

“The 5 questions you need to ask when the Intensive Care team is talking about “Futility of treatment”, “Withdrawal of life support” or about “Withdrawal of treatment!”

and if you haven’t read, watched or listened to the update, you can check it out here.

In this week’s blog I want to talk about

“THE 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO BE DIFFICULT AND DEMANDING WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS CRITICALLY ILL IN INTENSIVE CARE!”

If you have found yourself in the situation that your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care, you have probably found yourself in a difficult and challenging situation. You have probably also found that other people(the Intensive Care team) are driving the bus and you probably feel like you have no or little control, power and influence about the decisions that the Intensive Care team is making.

Those decisions may or may not be in the best interest of your critically ill loved one. You probably feel very vulnerable and you may struggle, feel overwhelmed and you’re probably frustrated by the situation that you, your Family and your critically ill loved one are in.

More importantly, depending on the diagnosis and prognosis of your critically ill loved one, you may have found that the Intensive Care team may paint a pretty grim “doom and gloom” picture of your critically ill loved one’s situation and you may feel like its all negative. Overall, it appears to be a one- sided coin with the Intensive Care team holding all the power…
It’s not a very good position to be in and you should always contemplate what’s behind the Intensive Care team’s positioning.

Why you need to be difficult and demanding

Even more important, you need to start being difficult and demanding whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care, because if you’re not, your critically ill loved one may actually not receive the best of treatment and care.

It could even be worse and if your loved one is in a really difficult, life threatening situation or is a long-term Patient in Intensive Care, the Intensive Care team may position your loved one’s prognosis and diagnosis as a situation where they suggest to “withdraw treatment”, “withdraw life support” or they start talking about “futility of treatment”.

If it has come to that point, it may already be too late and that’s why it’s so important that you and your family are difficult and demanding from the start, when your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care.

Why you need to go against the grain

It sounds counterintuitive and it sounds like you need to go against the grain, when you’re difficult and demanding whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care.
The reality is that if you’re not difficult and demanding you are like 99% of Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care who don’t position themselves correctly and those Families have no influence, no power and no control and those Families and their critically ill loved one are at the mercy of the Intensive Care team.

Who do you want to be? The choice is yours…

You certainly don’t want to be one of those Families. You want to be a Family who has control, power and influence. The minute you start becoming difficult and demanding that’s the time when the dynamics shift in your favour! Therefore, I’ll give you

“THE 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO BE DIFFICULT AND DEMANDING WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS CRITICALLY ILL IN INTENSIVE CARE!”

Let’s look at those 5 reasons in detail.

1. Most Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care put the Intensive Care team on a pedestal and they think the Intensive Care team is “superior” to them

It’s a shame that almost 99% of the Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care put the doctors and the nurses in Intensive Care on a “pedestal” so to speak and they therefore think that the doctors and the nurses are “superior” to them.

Those Families hand their power over on a platter and they’ll never be influential, have power and control over their critically ill loved one’s destiny. You need to stop doing that and you need to become difficult and demanding and you need to start asking the right questions now!

2. The Intensive Care team and the Intensive Care Unit have their own hidden agenda and their own-often negative positioning, especially in difficult, time and resource intensive treatments for your critically ill loved one

You really need to understand how an Intensive Care unit operates on a psychological level, because if you’re not, the Intensive Care team might walk all over you, especially if a prolonged treatment of your critically ill loved one is on the horizon.
The Intensive Care team may not have an interest in going through a lengthy, difficult and resource intensive treatment for your critically ill loved one and save their life. The Intensive Care team therefore may position your loved one’s prognosis and diagnosis in a very negative light and they may suggest to “stop or limit treatment”, because they don’t want to invest the time, the money and other resources into your critically ill loved one’s treatment.
You need to know and understand the moving parts of an Intensive Care Unit in order to counteract the Intensive Care team’s positioning and you can do so by reading our blog, get access to your FREE “INSTANT IMPACT” Report at the end of this blog and you can do so by being difficult and demanding!

Recommended resources:

THE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW IF THE MEDICAL TEAM IN INTENSIVE CARE WANTS TO “LIMIT TREATMENT”, WANTS TO “WITHDRAW TREATMENT” OR “WITHDRAW LIFE SUPPORT” OR WANTS TO ISSUE A “DNR” (DO NOT RESUSCITATE) OR AN “NFR” (NOT FOR RESUSCITATION) ORDER FOR YOUR CRITICALLY ILL LOVED ONE!

INTENSIVE CARE’S HIDDEN SECRETS AND MYTHS BEHIND THE SCENES, THAT THE INTENSIVE CARE TEAM KEEPS AWAY FROM YOU AT ANY COST AND OTHER FAMILIES OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THOSE HIDDEN SECRETS!

3. If you’re not difficult and demanding whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care, you’ll never find out the truth about your critically ill loved one’s situation

Especially if your critically ill loved one is in a life threatening situation or in a situation where he or she is expected to be in Intensive Care for long periods of time, you and your Family need to be difficult and demanding!

You want to know exactly what is going on and you only find out what is really going on, if you are asking the right questions and if you are difficult and demanding. Families of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care who aren’t difficult and demanding are always getting the short straw and if you’re not asking the right questions, your critically ill loved one may miss out on life saving treatment and life saving care.

You can also get more information about what to do if your critically ill loved one is a long-term Patient in Intensive Care or is facing treatment limitations by clicking on this link below.
“FOLLOW THIS PROVEN 6 STEP PROCESS, ON HOW TO BE POWERFUL, IN CONTROL, INFLUENTIAL AND HAVE PEACE OF MIND, IF YOUR LOVED ONE IS A LONG-TERM PATIENT IN INTENSIVE CARE OR IS FACING TREATMENT LIMITATIONS IN INTENSIVE CARE!”

4. You need to be difficult and demanding because the Intensive Care team are like “Fish in water” and you and your Family are like “Fish out of water”

The Intensive Care team is living and breathing Intensive Care every single day and they are like “Fish in water”. You and your Family on the other hand are like “Fish out of water” and most Families are completely out of their comfort zone.

The Intensive Care team are most of the time in their comfort zone. They therefore often don’t even contemplate the questions you want to know, let alone take those questions seriously.

They often also have the attitude of talking over you, rather than entering into a proper dialogue and discussion. Often, the Intensive Care team thinks they “know what’s best” and they therefore don’t really want to know your opinion. But that’s why it’s even more important that you’re difficult and demanding and that you’re asking the right questions!

5. You need to be difficult and demanding because it leverages your control, power and your level of influence

Again, as I mentioned earlier, if you’re not difficult and demanding, you’ll never have control, power and influence. If on the other hand you’ll get informed and learn what questions you need to ask, you become difficult and demanding and that’s when the power dynamics change and shift in your favour.

How can you leverage your level of power, influence and control whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care?

You’ll get to that all important feeling of power, control and influence when you download your FREE “INSTANT IMPACT” report NOW by entering your email below! In Your FREE “INSTANT IMPACT” report you’ll learn quickly how to get real power and real control and how you can influence decision making fast, whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care! Our FREE reports help you with in-depth insight that you must know whilst your loved one is critically ill or is dying in Intensive Care! Sign up for your FREE membership and download your FREE “INSTANT IMPACT” REPORT now!

In your FREE “INSTANT IMPACT” REPORT you’ll learn how to speak the “secret” Intensive Care language so that the doctors and the nurses know straight away that you are an insider and that you know and understand what’s really happening in Intensive Care!

In your FREE report you’ll also discover

How to ask the doctors and the nurses the right questions
Discover the many competing interests in Intensive Care and how your critically ill loved one’s treatment may depend on those competing interests
How to eliminate fear, frustration, stress, struggle and vulnerability even if your loved one is dying
5 “killer” tips& strategies helping you to get on the right path to PEACE OF MIND, control, power and influence in your situation
You’ll get real world examples that you can easily adapt to your and your critically ill loved one’s situation
How to stop being intimidated by the Intensive Care team and how you will be seen as equals
You’ll get crucial ‘behind the scenes’ insight so that you know and understand what is really happening in Intensive Care
How you need to manage doctors and nurses in Intensive Care(it’s not what you think)

Thank you for tuning into this week’s blog and I’ll see you again in another update next week!

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This is Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVECAREHOTLINE.COM and I’ll see you again next week with another update!

Sincerely, your Friend
Patrik Hutzel