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Walking Home From The ICUAuthor: Kali
Kali Dayton, DNP, ACNP-BC, is an ICU nurse practitioner and consultant on a mission to create Awake and Walking ICUs. She hands the microphone to ICU survivors and bedside caregivers to reveal the realities of ICU experience and patients' journeys after discharge. The big picture of sedation and immobility is discussed and we explore how to improve short and long-term patient outcomes. We shift the vision from transferring out of the ICU to walking straight home after the ICU. www.DaytonICUconsulting.com Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Episode 215: Penthouse Incarceration: Anjan's Journey Through Post-ICU Recovery
Episode 215
Wednesday, 10 June, 2026
From 180 lbs at peak athleticism, intelligence, and financial prosperity — to 120 lbs, isolated and locked in his penthouse. Anjan Chatterjee tells the harrowing reality of life during and after prolonged sedation in the ICU.Most people think surviving the ICU is the hard part. For Anjan, it was only the beginning.On August 14th, 2022, a routine run ended with a slip, a fall, and a traumatic brain injury that left him clinically dead — resuscitated only because his dog, Kingston, wouldn't stop barking. What followed was two weeks in a medically induced coma, seizures, facial fractures, and a mind that couldn't tell dreams from reality.He woke up convinced he'd been arrested, shot at by police, and sentenced to death. He burst through hand restraints. It took 14 nurses to hold him down. Then he was discharged — to a psychiatric ward — still hallucinating, still terrified, and completely alone."I sat in this lavish penthouse, and I was a prisoner. I didn't talk to a single soul for six months."In this episode, Anjan opens up about the psychological and physical toll of post-ICU syndrome — the delirium, the 60-lb muscle loss, the cardiac deconditioning, the brain fog, and the crushing isolation that followed. No referrals. No support. No one who believed him. Just a man, his trauma, his dog, and four walls at the top of a building.This is a story about what it really means to survive — and what it takes to actually come back.Stay tuned for upcoming online courses!www.DaytonICUConsulting.com
