I can not remember my 5 days in ICU.  As soon as I was coherent they moved me out of ICU to a floor room.  I do not remember being sick in the ICU, but I might have been. What I do know is that I threw up the first night I was in a regular room and it continued for 4 months.  My neurologist told us that throwing up is a byproduct of brain surgery (or maybe a brain injury). We asked her about it all the time and she always said that in a very matter of fact way.  I am sure it was just a matter of fact, but when you live it, it is miserable. We tried many ways to relieve the sickness and none of it worked. In the end I just stopped throwing up. I started to write on my calendar how many times a day I got sick.  It happened 0-4 times a day, usually with not more than one day in between. I wrote down how many times I threw up one day and the next day it was none, then the day after and after that. If I had known that was the last day we would have celebrated!

Getting sick was just something that happened for a while and then stopped. Moving my head around too much or too fast seems to have been a trigger.   This would include someone else causing me to move my head, like bumping the place I was sitting. I had to take medication every morning and because of this I would take my medication and sit still for an hour before I moved to avoid getting sick. 

Sickness was just a fact of my life at the time,  it was not something I found online at all, only my doctors told me it would be a problem.  I am writing this down so that anyone who reads this might know it is considered “normal”.