The Apothecary After the ICU - Paperback

by Briar Hollis (Author)

When her husband was admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit in the early days of COVID-19, she was told to prepare for the worst.

One hundred and sixty-three days later, he came home. What happened between that admission and that homecoming - and in the months of recovery that followed - is a story about crisis, determination, and the quiet power of the natural world.

Part memoir, part herbal reference, The Apothecary After the ICU follows one woman's journey from the hospital waiting room to the herb farm, documenting the protocol of seventeen herbs that became the foundation of her husband's recovery from ECMO, sepsis, candidemia, and the devastating aftermath of prolonged critical illness.

This book is for the people in waiting rooms. For the caregivers driving 120 miles a day alone. For the families who came home with twelve pages of discharge instructions and no roadmap for what comes next. For anyone who has wondered if there was more they could do.

There was. There is.