After the ICU: Nancy Andrews at TEDxDirigo Generate

Nancy Evelyn Andrews makes films, drawings, books and objects. She is currently working on her first feature film, The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes.
The Museum of Modern Art has collected six of her films; her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliotheque Nationale and Franklin Furnace Archives. Andrews is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in filmmaking.
The Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Flaherty Seminars, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Film on the Rocks- Thailand, and others have presented her work. She is featured in the 2013 deCordova Biennial on exhibit through April 13, 2014.
She is currently participating in Artists in Context's "Artists' Prospectus for the Nation" in the category of health, where she and other artists are bringing their aesthetic modes of inquiry to real-world situations, showing the value of drawing on knowledge from other fields and moving beyond conventional modes of problem-solving.
Andrews is on faculty at College of the Atlantic
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[@SilverTwinFins]

Wooaaa!?! OK, Husband JUST transferred from 11-day stay in our local hosp.ICU 18 hrs ago. Called me EARLY am chatting away/making NO sense re: a handful of topics so I called new unit, Neuro, to ask if they'd noticed anything odd since he came to their floor, asked if she'd check his O2 Nasal Canula to see if in correct place. Charge RN told me Doc claimed it last night already as ICU Delirium, which, as an RN I was VERY surprised as NEVER heard of!?! EVERYTHING I just heard you discuss is inline with things spouse has said/nurses have observed. THANK YOU so very much for sharing your story, this helped get an idea of what we'll be handning now. :-/

[@tnijoo5109]

I can’t imagine being able to sleep in the icu when the monitors are so insanely bright. When I asked the nurse about this, I was completely shot down, as if there was absolutely no way to fix it. I could think of many ways to fix it. It’s hard when you’re watching someone you love fighting for their life and these doctors and nurses can’t even figure out how to make the room darker. Sleep is the most important thing when healing brain and body. And it’s something so very simple to remedy.

[@PaulaStreet]

This is a highly motivated person who has always been creative, is able to use her creativity to somehow survive this trauma. But what about those who are not confident in that way - God help those.

[@terribrun9207]

Never heard of Post ICU syndrome. One year post intubation and I still have physical and emotional effects. 😮

[@phillkj]

So powerful talk, very enlightening. Than you for sharing

[@tnijoo5109]

I love her drawings.

[@banzobeans]

9:55 The process of drawing was the key to my healing.

[@CarinSottedEagle]

Your Wellness Police just has to blink back the tears after witnessing this video... and watching what really happens after long-term ICU admissions with too many patients. I believe it's incumbent that medical teams better explain what can happen

[@cats8399]

Thank you, than you, thank you for this talk. I'm 2 months out and it's exactly as you say. I look for ways to cope with no support that understands what I went through. Please tell me it gets better. And how

[@mrluck5846]

Check out Vanderbuilt University Post Intensive Care Syndrome.

[@Spencer121583]

Dr. James Jackson at Vanderbilt - we have a Post Intensive Care Syndrome support group for people like us! Please reach out. You are not alone

[@nikikop2282]

I experienced this exactly. I’m 4 years out and still struggling cognitively. I just turned 50.

[@chrisc7470]

amazing talk!

[@banzobeans]

5:08 post-ICU syndrome

[@TheMadmax2299]

Thrive sccm