He underwent "a series of complicated surgeries" - meaning he's had several anesthestics, pain meds, and is possibly under long-term light sedation (not uncommonly used in ICU to reduce stress on the body while healing.) Twilight zone time, the gray fuzzies interspersed with periods of clarity.
Speaking from personal experience, I had a reaction to a very common analgesic, Stadol, with my second child. Instead of an hour in recovery postpartum like the first time. I was there almost 8 hours, hanging onto consciousness by my fingernails - and I'd only had a very small dose just prior to delivery. Not at all pleasant and entirely unexpected. The poor anesthesiologist apologized every time he saw me over the next 6 months - I was the first adverse case he'd had in hundreds.
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