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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com today with another testimonial from a client that we worked with actually last year and he sent me an email today. And I want to read out the email so you can see what results and outcomes you will get when you work with us 1:1, when your loved one is critically ill in intensive care.

Now, before I read out the email today in the testimonial, if you find value in my YouTube videos here, I encourage you to subscribe to my my YouTube channel. Click the like button, click the notification bell, share the video with your friends and families and of course, always comment below what you want to see next or what questions and insights you have from the videos that will help me create better content, really tailor-made for you and what you want.

Okay, let’s read out the email from Tony who we worked with actually last year.

 

Hi Patrik,

I hope this email finds you well.

I’m not sure where exactly we left off and whether you recall my father’s particular case. Tony, I do recall your father’s particular case.

My father’s name is… and I’m keeping this anonymous here. I’m not going to read out names here. I had been in contact with you at the beginning of last year when my father was hospitalized with pneumonia, then later put on mechanical ventilation for two months. The doctors told us that his chances were not good.

I guess I have heard that before when the doctors are telling you the chances are not good. But we know what happens when you don’t give up.

I want to tell you that my father survived. He eventually woke up and was taken off the ventilator. However, he subsequently was given malaria infected blood during a necessary blood transfusion, and he was readmitted to back to ICU. This started another process of fighting for survival. Eventually, he was sent to another hospital that specializes in infectious disease and they were able to treat his malaria with strong antivirals. Altogether, he required a lot of therapy, dialysis, hospital visits with different specialists to rehabilitate, and although fragile, he is alive and well today.

I’m not sure if I ever had the chance to update you on his condition and I apologize if I didn’t. It was really a hectic ordeal and I got lost in the thick of things.

My family and I want to give you our utmost sincere gratitude and appreciation for providing the support we need throughout what was one of the most critical periods of all of our lives. The guidance you were able to provide and also stepping in to talk with the doctors was incredibly supportive and immeasurable.

We cannot thank you enough for everything.

We are all grateful for what you do, and it is a blessing that we were able to find you.

I wish you always the best of health and happiness. You deserve it all.

Tony

 

Well, Tony, I really, really appreciate you sending this email and giving us an update. When we work with clients one on one, we really mainly work with them when they have loved ones in intensive care, outside of intensive care.

Besides what we do with Intensive Care at Home, it is really not our area of expertise, when patients leave ICU and they’re going on to rehab and they’re going home. It is outside of our area of expertise. Again, with the exception when people go from intensive care to Intensive Care at Home. You can find more information at intensivecareathome.com if you’re curious.

But I really appreciate your email here, Tony, and I can only say what I’ve been saying for the longest. Don’t let the negativity from intensive care teams bog you down because the negativity is driven from an agenda. And the agenda often is to maximize their revenue or profits. The agenda is to empty intensive care beds as quickly as possible whether that’s by letting people die or whether sending them, in the U.S., in particular to LTAC (long-term acute care) and you have to read between the lines. You have to understand intensive care in and out to understand all the moving pieces and also anticipate what the next moves are. If you don’t know any of that, you’ll be lost. And I’ve made countless videos about when people come to us when it’s too late.

Tony, you didn’t come to us too late. You obviously saw the writing on the wall, and you knew that you were out of your comfort zone, and you knew that you needed help and you’d gotten the help you were probably praying and hoping for.

So that’s my testimonial for today.

If you have a loved one in intensive care, go to intensivecarehotline.com and call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected].

I offer 1:1 consulting over the phone, via Skype, Zoom, WhatsApp, whichever medium works best for you. I talk to doctors and nurses directly. I can represent you in family meetings so that someone on your team speaks the medical language and communicates with the intensive care team on par on the same level. And who can question everything because that’s your job here and my job too. Question everything.

Now, also have a look at our membership for families in intensive care at intensivecaresupport.org. There you have access to me and my team 24 hours a day in a membership area and via email and we answer all questions intensive care related.

And we also provide medical record reviews in real-time so you can have a second opinion in real-time. Please contact us for that as well.

We also provide medical record reviews after intensive care. If you have unanswered questions, if you need closure or if you simply suspect medical negligence.

And again, if you’re finding value in these videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Click the like button, click the notification bell, share the video with your friends and families, and as always, comment below what questions and insights you have from these videos.

Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com, and I’ll talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.