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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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A 35-year-old Texas woman said she had long dreamed of having children with her husband and was thrilled — after a year and a half of trying to conceive through fertility treatments — to learn she was pregnant.

But five weeks into her second trimester, Amanda Zurawaski was told her pregnancy was not viable. Doctors in Texas could not provide any treatment under the state's abortion law, and Zurawaski nearly died as a result, according to a lawsuit she and four other women filed against the state.

The women are asking a state court to clarify Texas' near-total abortion ban to say that doctors should make the final determination about whether women need medically necessary abortion care.

Zurawaski said she was denied care because doctors at her hospital were worried about breaking the law.

Zurawaski's water broke on a Tuesday night but she was forced to wait until her body naturally delivered the baby, who had died, on that Friday, according to the lawsuit. By then her body went into septic shock, the lawsuit said.

She now has permanent scar tissue as a result of infections she developed and will have trouble getting pregnant again, according to the lawsuit filed in District Court in Travis County, Texas.

"Amanda spent three days in the ICU while her infection was treated. Amanda's family flew to Austin from across the country because they worried it would be the last time they would see her," the complaint says. "Amanda was eventually discharged and returned home, but her suffering was far from over."

Texas was the first state to implement a near-total abortion ban in September 2021. The law includes limited exceptions for medical emergencies but provides little clarity about what constitutes an emergency, according to the suit.

The lawsuit was brought against Texas by The Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Zurawaski, four other women who underwent similar trauma and illness while pregnant, and two doctors.

Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Medical Board executive director Stephen Brint Carlton were also named as defendants in the case.

In a statement to Insider, Paxton's office said he is "committed to doing everything in his power to protect mothers, families, and unborn children, and he will continue to defend and enforce the laws duly enacted by the Texas Legislature."

The office also sent Insider a "guidance letter" on the Texas law, which says the law prohibits the performing, inducing, or attempting of an abortion unless the mother has "a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places [her] at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced."

The letter goes on to say that the term "abortion" doesn't apply when these acts are done to "(A) save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child; (B) remove a dead, unborn child whose death was caused by spontaneous abortion; or (C) remove an ectopic pregnancy."

It does not address cases where a nonviable pregnancy — where the fetus still has cardiac activity — is threatening the life of the mother.

The Texas Medical Board did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

THE HOSPITAL WAS SCARED TO VIOLATE THE ABORTION BAN, THE LAWSUIT SAYS

Zurawaski underwent exploratory procedures, used multiple medications, received one misdiagnosis, and was treated with intrauterine insemination before she finally got pregnant for the first time, according to the lawsuit.

The pregnancy was normal until she was diagnosed with an "incompetent cervix" at 17 weeks and 6 days, according to the lawsuit. That's when medical providers told her the pregnancy was not viable.

Having tried so hard to get pregnant in the first place, she and her husband asked if there was anything they could do to save it — even if it meant undergoing a procedure to stitch her cervix closed to prevent preterm birth. The doctor said even that wouldn't work.

When she went home that day, her water broke.

Amanda returned to the emergency room that night and was diagnosed with preterm pre-labor rupture of membranes and was kept overnight in hopes that she would go into labor on her own.

In the morning, she still hadn't gone into labor and the fetus still had cardiac activity, so she was sent home.

"Amanda was told that under Texas's abortion ban, there was no other medical care the hospital could provide," the suit says. "At this point, absent Texas's abortion bans, a patient in Amanda's situation would have been offered an abortion or transferred to a facility that could offer the procedure."

Amanda wasn't offered either "because the hospital was concerned that providing an abortion without signs of acute infection" would be in violation of the abortion ban, the lawsuit says.

The closest clinic where she could get the necessary treatment — an abortion — was 11 hours away in New Mexico, and she needed to stay within 15 minutes of the hospital in case her health declined, the suit says.

For the next two days Zurawaski stayed home, "grieving her inevitable loss and worrying about her own health," the lawsuit says.

On Friday, after a check-up showed her vitals were stable, her health deteriorated.

She developed chills and started shivering, her fever began to spike, and she did not respond to her husband's questions, according to the lawsuit. At the emergency room, she was admitted to the labor and delivery unit. With her temperature now at 103.2 degrees and confirmed to be in sepsis, her medical team agreed she was sick enough that they could induce her labor without violating the abortion ban.

The baby, whom she named Willow, died, according to the lawsuit.

Zurawaski then developed a second infection and went into septic shock, resulting in a three-day ICU stay. After being released she underwent a procedure to remove severe scar tissue from her uterus and one fallopian tube — while the other remains permanently closed, the suit says.

Her medical team told her that in order to get pregnant again, she should undergo IVF treatments, which she had already started by the time the lawsuit was filed on February 6.

"Amanda and her husband have been trying to have children for years, and she not only lost her first pregnancy, but because of Texas's abortion bans, she nearly lost her own life and spent days in the ICU for septic infections whose lasting impacts threaten her fertility and, at a minimum, make it more difficult, if not impossible, to get pregnant again in the future," the suit says.

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bekandrew · 11 months

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Emergency commission requests

I'm in a bit of a bind. I had a life-threatening bout of sepsis last month, which lead to a hospitalization and a large number of unplanned followup doctor's visits in quick succession. I can't drive and didn't have any friends/family to drive me, so I had to pay for rideshare every single time. That added up fast. My wife and I also had to make a major grocery purchase and wound up spending much more than it turned out we could actually afford, between inflation and the fact that we'd been forced to put off buying things that we sorely needed for our health. We were pretty much down to (rapidly declining amounts of) ramen. Then multiple large bills just hit the account at once. I have a paper check due to come that's late, and one that's currently on hold that I can't access the money for. My wife doesn't get paid until next Friday. I had to skip a (thankfully less important) doctor's appointment this morning, because I wouldn't have had the money to get home. This also means I won't be able to pick up my wife and my medications until another time, because I was planning on doing that while I was out. We're concerned that wife may not have enough money to get to and from work on the days their carpool can't come through, because we don't have a functional car. I currently do digital art/illustration, primarily ttrpg-related but not exclusively. I would need half up front as a deposit through cashapp (refundable if I was unable to complete the work for some unforeseen reason). I have my portfolio linked with more info and prior work examples. I'm not open to new work trade (work for equal work instead of work for pay) inquiries until the current crisis is resolved. Please signal boost if you're unable to help! Thank you. https://imgur.com/a/2zRVNtq

#commission #ttrpg commissions #art comms open #emergency commissions #sepsis #poverty #signal boost #bek speaks

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nightmaretour · 2 years

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With everything going on, it's easy to miss that September is sepsis awareness month. I've already missed sepsis awareness day (September 13th) but now is as good a time as ever to make this post.

Sepsis is a disease that affects around 49 million people worldwide every year, and responsive for around 20% of all global deaths, claiming approximately 11 million lives per year. It's estimated that one person dies of sepsis every 2.8 seconds. Around half of those who survive sepsis are left with physical or cognitive disabilities for the rest of their lives.

Despite being one of the global leading causes of death, very few people know much about sepsis or how to spot it, which is what makes it all the more deadly. Sepsis kills approximately 1 in 6 people who contract it, but spotted early, patients with sepsis are around half as likely to die as those who have been allowed to develop into the later stages.

Sepsis is always the result of an existing bacterial, viral, fungal or even parasitic infection, usually due to a serious infection such as pneumonia or meningitis, but it can also be caused by something as small as an infected papercut or bug bite. Almost half of all cases occur in children.

Sepsis is incredibly time sensitive, even a few hours could be the difference between life and death. If you spot any of the signs in yourself or someone else, do not delay. Seek emergency treatment immediately.

For more information, visit:

Worldsepsisday.org

Global-sepsis-alliance.org

Sepsis.org

Sepsisresearch.org.uk

#sepsis #sepsis awareness month #sepsis awareness #disability #actually disabled #awareness

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peppermint-goldfish · 2 months

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Sepsis

I'm working on a story called Sepsis. I want to potentially make it into a live action/animated film so I'm working on parts of the story today.

I have two characters so far that I like how they're turning out. Father Henry and Sister Mia (might rename her...don't know though)

In the 1980’s, a Catholic family hosted a party for the members of their church at their New Jersey home. Their parish priest, Father Henry, and his best friend, Sister Mia, were also invited. The party was going very well. Father Henry was a very elderly man who needed help walking so Sister Mia was there to assist him. During the party, he needed to go upstairs for something. Sister Mimi followed. On the way down, Father Henry tripped over his robe and fell down the stairs. Sister Mia tried to catch him, but she ended up falling with him. They both hit their heads and suffered severe internal bleeding. The rest of the party saw it happen and called an ambulance, but he could not be saved. They died at the bottom of the stairs. After Father Henrys and Sister Mia death, they roamed the house they passed away in for years and years. They were confused why they weren’t in Heaven, Purgatory, or Hell and instead were still somehow on earth. They were very friendly and despite not a lot of people being able to see them, they still considered the residents over the years their friends.

That's all I have for now! I'll post some more about this later.

#ava.txt #my story #my writing #my ocs #my characters #original characters #oc #oc writing #sepsis #father henry #sister mia #writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #oc artist #stories

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m34gs · 8 months

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Continuing on our Twisted Wonderland Saw AU ask, what sort of trap do you think the vice housewardens would create if they were working together with their house wardens? 👀

Thank you for the ask, friend! (If anyone is wanting context, please see this post here!) I am thrilled to answer this.

As usual, there's a general warning for Saw-typical levels of violence, gore, and death ahead; please see the tags for specific warnings. I will put the answer under the cut!

*For the purpose of this ask, Ruggie and Ortho are considered Vice Housewardens even though they do not officially hold the title.

Trey - The only way Trey will design a trap is if it's prior to the growth of character he had after Riddle's overblot. Trey is an enabler. Riddle tells him he's doing a trap, and he might protest, but ultimately he will cave.

He's another one who would go for a simple trap; something like "in order to free yourself from your chains, you must reach into this pot of boiling water and pull out both keys and undo the locks with them". If the person cannot, they will remain there to die.

He cannot stomach cutting the jigsaw piece, so he gets Ace or Deuce to do it.

Ruggie - Ruggie would take it personal. He would definitely target people who do things like shut down food banks or make it harder for impoverished people to get food. He's got no qualms teaching these people a lesson.

His trap is set up like so: the person has been kidnapped and kept unconscious for hours, starving them. They wake in a room with only a massive heap of rotting/spoiled food next to them (which he definitely scavenged from dumpsters behind grocery stores). They have already been poisoned. The tape recorder tells them they must consume the antidote, which is in one of the pieces of rotting food. There's a couple ways this could go: 1. they pick up on the hint in the recording (it will indicate which food will be the thing they must eat) and successfully consume the antidote, 2. they frantically eat as much of the food as possible which leaves their shot at getting the antidote up to chance, 3. they cannot bring themselves to eat the rotting food and so they die, 4. similar to 2 in that they eat as much food as possible, but they force themselves way past their limit and rupture their bowels, go septic and die. However it ends, it will not be an easy experience. It's not meant to be.

Ruggie cuts the puzzle piece himself.

Jade - Jade doesn't have to be asked twice to design a trap. He's been working on an idea for a while. Jade likes seeing how things play out, how people will act or react to different situations, and he especially likes watching others go through the uncomfortable emotions.

His trap would be a pair of victims, connected to each other through the trap. Probably chained to the same saw, or something, and the more one pulls away, the closer the other is dragged to the saw. In order to get out, they need to give a certain amount of blood. The added stress? It's a pair of people who care about each other. They may be shitty people, but they're shitty people who love each other deeply. He wants to know; is the love deep enough that one would sacrifice themselves for the other? Will their selfish desire to live outweigh their love and drive them to kill the other? Or will they figure out that they can both survive, that he only told them a certain amount of blood needed to be collected, not that it needed to all be from one person? (very Saw V-esque, I know, lol).

He isn't rooting one way or another, he just wants to see what will happen. He is totally indifferent to if he gets to let them go or if he has to cut out a puzzle piece. Azul and Floyd are both pretty on-board with the trap, and willing to set up if he needs assistance.

Jamil - If anyone is gonna build an inescapable trap, it's Jamil. He's got enough arrogance that he thinks he is worthy of being judge and executioner, rather than just setting up a test. He tells Kalim, these people don't deserve a second chance or a shot at rebirth; they have a perfectly good life and they are throwing it away. They don't need saving, they need punishment.

His contraption is probably something like a person needing to cut into their own flesh to remove a key that they can use to disconnect themselves from a system of pulleys during a countdown. If they fail, the pulleys, connected at all four limbs, will dismember them. The problem is, they were always going to fail because the way they are positioned and strapped into the system they would never be able to reach their lower legs to unlock them on their own.

Kalim will never help Jamil with these traps. He cannot bring himself to hate Jamil, but he does not agree with this method of trap. Jamil cuts the puzzle piece, but it's just going through the motions to him. It means nothing.

Rook - Honestly, Rook's came to me first. It's gonna be a bit out there, but nothing that can't be done in the Saw universe. After all, if he's working as a Jigsaw apprentice, he's got all the access to John's engineering notes and work. Vil doesn't want Rook to do it, but I think is one of the few times they disagree with each other. Rook insists; there is beauty in the dark and violence, he says. There is something about suffering that is enticing. And how can he properly appreciate what Vil goes through if he does not take the chance to design his own trap?

The trap itself: a person wakes in a room with only their naked body and a knife, and, of course, a tape recorder. The tape recorder instructs them that there are dozens of small light sensors in the room, easily visible to the naked eye, implanted in the walls. The person can, indeed, see indicators where the sensors are. The sensors must all be covered within a limited time-frame in order for the door to unlock and open. What they don't know is the light sensors are placed so that when each one is covered it makes a mural; a mural of why they are in the trap in the first place. The victim has nothing but themselves and the knife, and it becomes clear they must paint the mural in their own blood, using their hands.

Rook would take each part seriously, and so he would easily cut the puzzle piece out should the victim fail...but he is hoping for their success, as he considers it a chance to witness the beauty of rebirth.

Ortho - I think Ortho tries to see it in the frame of 'it's like a video game'. He'd basically be doing this because Idia is, and he admires his brother too much. He's a bit blinded by his adoration for Idia. That all said, I think he would go hard on the design of the trap, in an attempt to impress Idia and earn praise. He wants it to be entertaining for his brother.

I could imagine him doing something a bit complex, but different than the bloodbaths a lot of the others are. A small sealed room with one way out, but the door is locked and needs a combination. The person can pull some round, cylinder sections out of the walls, which will have a number on them. They are not large enough for a person to crawl out of, but large enough to leave a significant hole. The cylinders, once pulled out, break just enough that they cannot be reinserted but the numbers are still readable (not sure how, maybe they score the cylinder ahead of time, or maybe the end just disintegrates and the number was under the top, but they were designed to break). Water starts pouring in through the holes. Every number is needed for the code. The cylinders are at varying heights, and one even requires the water level to be high enough to carry a person to it. Once the person has all the numbers, they must also figure out the order (though this should be easier because that will be hinted in the tape recording, based on why they are there in the room). If they do not succeed, they will drown.

Ortho does not cut the puzzle piece. He asks Idia to do it, because if Ortho has to confront the concrete proof someone is dead from his trap it might actually break him.

Lilia - We all know Lilia is an agent of chaos, but also very wise at times. I don't think he would have a problem creating a trap, but he's not buying into the ideology of Jigsaw the way Malleus is. He's in it to see what happens.

Like Idia, I think Lilia wants to have a bunch of moving parts. He would be another one to do a maze trap with minitraps spread throughout. I do think it would be set up less like "how will the group dynamics work" (Saw V) and more like "a series of trials for one person" (Saw III, VI, and VII). He wants to push the individual to see what they are capable of. It almost runs like a training simulation in his mind.

He has no problem cutting the puzzle piece at the end if he must, though he is disappointed the person didn't amount to what he thought they could do.

Those are my answers! Hope you enjoyed them, and hope you're not too freaked out by my crazy hahahaha. Let me know what you think :)

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thechronicpaingame · 18 days

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womp womp.

GP thinks I have some type of resistant infection. Strongly STRONGLY advised I go to a&e and I refused, because last time they sent me home with no help and my back is so bad pain wise I simply can't tolerate being sat for hours. So I'm keeping an eye on things, watching my temp. It has been lower today for the first time in like 2 and a half weeks, still high but not reaching the same highs.

Any new symptoms, any worsening symptoms, feeling worse / more poorly and higher temps all invoke my a&e rule. Having had sepsis twice before, I know what I'm looking for.

The "risk of deterioration/death" made me laugh for some reason. I guess we just know ourselves so well being sick all the time when something is an emergency and isn't? I feel like this is not an emergency. I still may need IV antibiotics but I don't feel in immediate danger.

Anyway I told my sister I won't die because my flat is a mess and I can't die with a messy flat.

#chronic illness #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #polyarteritis nodosa #adrenal insufficiency #stills disease #fibro #chronic uti #nausea #psoriasis #fever #temperature #infection #sepsis

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rimshospitals · 7 months

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Sepsis is a condition where the body's response to an infection becomes dangerously excessive. It often begins with a localized infection but can quickly escalate into a critical state. Recognizing the early signs, such as fever and a rapid heart rate, is vital for timely intervention. As sepsis advances, it can lead to organ dysfunction, making immediate medical attention imperative. In the most critical stage, septic shock, low blood pressure becomes a dire sign, necessitating an emergency call. Awareness and swift action can be the difference between sepsis and recovery, underscoring the importance of early intervention.

#rimshospitals#relamshospital#redhills#chennai#health#healthcare#sepsis

#rimshospitals #relamshospital #redhills #chennai #health #healthcare #sepsis

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ritualcaster · 29 days

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sneezes on you and gives you 37 diseases

#sepsis #stage 4 bone camcer #HIV #Influenza #strep #pink eye #Aids #Covid

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greygullhaven · 11 months

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Hate asking for help but....

I need it. But a small explanation here. This gofund me is for me. I am trans but am not able to be out and public due to living in hell hole florida and having unsupportive family members. But this is me and my story. Ive been trying to heal from nearly dying of MRSA and sepsis and have had a 7+inch gaping hole in my shoulder/back that has had a wound-vac on for nearly a month now. This is me, asking for help to pay for all of this and to keep my family from losing everything we have to pay for me staying alive. Please share if nothing else. I would be eternally thankful! https://www.gofundme.com/f/yhsuzg-help-sarah-with-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

#GoFundMe #Medical Bills #MRSA #Sepsis #lgbtq support #LGBTQ PRIDE #Asking for help #at the end of my rope

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faofinn · 1 year

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Day 9 - Oxygen

@mediwhumpmay

Fao’s chest had been bothering him. It definitely wasn’t right, as much as he tried to ignore it. Some virus or another had been floating round as always, the kids bringing god knows what home from school. He’d been suffering with it, the way he always did, but he was trying to push through. He didn’t particularly have a choice, he had to work. At least he wasn’t as busy as he had been in the past. Working up to clinical lead, he’d been doing more admin and taking more responsibilities that way, which meant more time at his desk. That was no bad thing, especially when he felt like shite.

That didn’t mean he was purely non clinical, and today he’d been picking up the slack of an understaffed service. He’d rushed down the stairs to ED, called down for a consult, and his breath caught in his chest to the point he had to pause at the nurse’s station, trying to ignore the wheeze.

The cough wasn’t great either, and Fao winced when it started, knowing just how bad he sounded. It didn’t last long, and he paused to push some hair from his face, still leaning against the nurse’s station for a moment longer to pull himself together.

"Wolfie. Fucking finally." Harrison rounded the corner, shaking his head at Fao. "We paged you lot ages ago."

Fao cleared his throat, huffing at Harrison. “Understaffed.” He said gruffly. “Who am I seeing?”

Harrison narrowed his eyes. "How long have you been sick?"

He rolled his eyes. “I’m fine.”

"You're not. Jamie? Which room is free at the moment?"

“Oh, don’t start, you know what my chest is like.” He said, but didn’t move. “Which patient am I seeing?”

"Yeah, fuck that. Call gensurg again for me? I'm gonna take Fao down to 6." Harrison ignored Fao.

“Good luck trying to get someone else.” Fao said, but his voice cracked and the coughing started again, undermining him. He could feel the wheeze in his chest, the tightness across his ribs and the lingering pain under his sternum. The coughing itself made him feel dizzy, and he pressed his lips together.

"Yeah, no. You're not alright." Harrison moved to support Fao, his arm wrapped around the other man. "Come on, before you end up collapsing."

Fao groaned, leaning into Harrison as the room lurched and his legs gave out from under him.

"You fucker." Harrison swore, shifting to pick Fao up. "Someone get the doors, please! We're going to resus."

People made space for them, concerned muttering as the resus doors were opened. Jamie, who had appeared not long after Hars originally called for him, found an empty bay, calling the doctor into it.

"Right then, we all know Fao. Just collapsed, shortness of breath, multiple previous spontaneous pneumos. He decompensates very quickly. I need full obs on him please, and if someone can get the X-ray, that would be great." Harrison called to their team, moving to listen to Fao's chest.

Fao came round quickly, batting at Harrison’s hands on him. “Piss off.” He grumbled.

"Yeah, lovely. How long has your chest been fucked?"

“Since I was 17?” He tried, but the cough that followed didn’t help him out.

"Faolan. Don't be a dickhead."

“Ooh, full name.” He teased weakly. “I’ve had some shitty cold since last week an’ I can’t shift the cough.”

"How long have you been wheezing for? Bringing anything up?"

“Last few days? Mostly dry.”

"Have you bothered to take your inhaler?"

Fao shot him a look. “You have to ask?”

"If Sheila doesn't kill you, I'm going to."

He rolled his eyes, turning to cough. “It’s fine, ’m fine.”

One of the nurses huffed. “Fao, can you stop fidgeting so we can get some obs? Please?”

“I’m fine, honestly. All a fuss about nothing.” He protested.

Harrison could have smacked him. He returned to Fao's side, face like thunder. "Fao, I swear to god. When you collapse on me again, you lose the right to complain. Lie still and let us do what we have to do. You look like shit, the obs we've got have been shit, and let me guess, you feel like shit."

“I jus’ went a little faint, it happens.” He protested. “I’ll be fine.”

He glared at him. "So your sats are supposed to be in the eighties?"

Fao hesitated. “Eighties?”

"You're sitting 89."

“Oh. Deep breaths, then.”

"And oxygen. You need some nebs."

“It’s probably jus’ postural, let me sit up and I’ll be better.”

Harrison didn't bother replying, but let the nurse by his bed adjust Fao to sit up. "Can someone get me five of salbutamol and five hundred ipratropium? We'll get a litre of normal saline running, start him on a broad spectrum abx, when we get bloods back, they can change it. Have we got the ecg done? Ah, brill."

He took a moment to read over Fao's strip. "You got any chest pain? Any palpitations? How have they been the past few days?"

Fao went to answer, but quickly changed his mind as he saw Harrison’s face. "It's been a bit tight but it’s not been awful. Nothing close to what it used to be. Thought it was just the infection. Is it that bad?"

"It doesn't look like you're having a heart attack or anything, but you've got a few runs of AF I'm not too happy with." He admitted. "Nothing I'm going to run off to cardio with you for, but enough that I want you to stay on monitoring for a little bit. Chances are, it's just the infection. We'll get that sorted, and you'll be better."

Fao nodded. “I hope I’m not having a fucking heart attack.” He grumbled. “I’ve really not felt that awful, I swear.” If Harrison was worried about his ECG, then maybe things were serious. Ely was going to kill him.

"Can we get some IV hydrocortisone too? And a gram of IVP, help with this pain, settle the temp too, hopefully." Harrison called to his team, taking stock of his observations again. He listened to Fao's chest again, and nodded. There was a slight improvement to the wheeze, but it only highlighted the crackles. God knows how long he’d had this infection brewing.

Happy things were moving in the right direction, and that the staff were sorting the things he'd requested, he pulled the chair closer to Fao's side. "Hey, sorry for being a bit pushy."

"A bit?" He managed a laugh. “Try a lot.”

"Don't be an arse." Harrison said, reaching for Fao’s hand and giving it a squeeze. "You really aren't very well at the minute. I bet this has been going on for longer than you're gonna admit, but it's gonna get sorted.

"I know you know the medical side of things more than most of my patients, but sometimes that makes it harder for you, too." He sighed. "Right now? I think you've got a pretty nasty infection that's more than likely this cough you've got going on. Your lactate is pretty high right now, obviously your oxygen is a fair bit lower than we want, and your heart rate is fast. Part of the rate will be the nebs we're slamming into you, but at the same time, I think you're septic.

"We're gonna keep you here, try get this wheeze sorted first and then send you down to x-ray. You've got good air entry, I'm not too worried that you've got a pneumo or anything, but with your history, I want to be safe. We'll try and get your pain under a bit more control, get you more comfortable, but I need you to tell me. We're not mind readers, although I can tell when you're bullshitting me." He squeezed his hand again. "Is there anything you want from me? Anything you want me to do? Do you want me to call Ely? Sheila?"

“Sorry, septic?” He asked, taking a moment to take in all Harrison had told him. He felt bad, sure, but he’d been convinced it was nothing more that a chest infection he was struggling to shift, a bit of a wheeze that would go in time, a nice hangover from all of his history. He’d not been expecting Harrison to be that worried. He definitely felt crap, and Hars was right, the nebs weren’t helping his heart rate to feel any better. “It doesn’t feel like a pneumo, it just feels shitty.” He admitted. “You should call both of them. I’m not going to be able to escape without an admission, am I? Have you sorted another gensurg consult for that patient of yours? I think the bleep is still in my pocket.”

"The other patient is doing a lot better than you currently are. I'll be honest, right now, I'm doing my best to keep you from HDU." He sighed, breaking from his doctor mode. "You've really not been well, Fao. Why didn't you tell someone? You've been running after the kids like a maniac, too. They'd have got someone in to cover you, take some of the pressure off. You need to put yourself first, or at least higher up on the chain."

“You can piss off with HDU.” He told him, digging in his pockets for the hard plastic of his bleep, which he shoved at Hars. “I honestly don’t have time to be ill. I took a couple of days off last week when I felt rotten, got some rest, but then I needed to come back in. I’ve not been sniffly, just the cough, and I can manage that. Not smoked in a week. The kids have so much on, and unsurprisingly they’ve not been well either. Been doing more non clinical hours, but we’re a surgeon down today and I had no other choice.”

"Well excuse me for giving a shit about you." He retorted. "You're my best friend, I need you to be okay."

“I’ll be fine. Supposed to be picking the kids up, though.”

"Tai's off today, he'll pick them up."

“Thanks. Ely’s on nights and she can’t get them picked up and sorted before she needs to come in.” He mumbled. “Sorry I fainted on you.”

"They can come have a sleepover. It's not a problem." He dropped his gaze. "I really can't lose you, Fao. I need you, and that means you need to put yourself first."

Fao cleared his throat, pushing at Hars gently. “Shush. You’re not getting rid of me.”

"I'm not that shit of a cons."

“Oh, course not.”

Harrison smiled. "How's everything feeling now?"

“Bit better.” He admitted.

"Can I have a listen?"

Fao nodded. “Mm, go on.”

"Thanks." He hummed, standing with a groan. He listened to Fao's chest again, taking a moment. "Good news or bad news?"

Once Harrison had finished, Fao shuffled to get comfortable again. “Bad first.”

"The infection sounds like shit."

“And the good news?” He tried, looking hopeful.

"Your wheeze has pretty much gone, you've got really good air entry - especially for your chest, I'm surprised. And your blood pressure is doing a lot better."

Fao grinned. “So no HDU?”

"We'll move you to monitoring in a bit, too. I want to keep an eye on your lactate, but it’s looking hopeful."

“Good.” He said, and after a minute. “Thank you.”

"You're welcome." Harrison returned his grin. "Even if you do make my life difficult."

“I know it’s clinically a bad picture…” He murmured. “But I’ve felt worse than this.”

"That's not something to be proud of."

“No, it’s… I honestly didn’t think it was this bad. Almost felt worse wit’ the cold?”

"I know, it's okay."

“Didn’t know the AF was bad.”

"I've seen it worse. It's probably just because of the infection, the nebs, all of that. They're not long runs, and they're not super fast, nowhere near where they have been."

Fao nodded. “Haven’t really noticed it, an’ I usually do. Haven’t been bothered for ages, cardio told me to piss off.”

"Course they did." He rolled his eyes. "Honestly, I'm not surprised you didn't. Your body was busy compensating for everything else."

He nodded again. “Yeah. Sorry. Is Finn in?”

"Should be soon. Sheila should be dropping him off, actually." He grinned. "Rock, paper, scissors for who has to call her?"

“You can. I can’t possibly. Too ill.” He said, gesturing at himself.

"Dickhead. I'm glad you're feeling better."

He coughed, but he was grinning. “Had a good doctor.”

"I'll take the compliment. Let me go ring Sheila first, and then I'll catch Ely up, yeah?"

“Tell them both I’m fine, yeah?”

"I will."

“Hug?” He asked, trying his luck.

"Yeah, come here." He leaned over, pressing a quick kiss to his cheek before giving him a gentle squeeze.

Awkwardly Fao lifted his arms to wrap them around Hars. “Thank you.”

"I'm always gonna be here for you."

“Here to kick my ass, more like.”

"Sometimes you need that, too."

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the-island-and-the-dream · 10 months

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today's fun and exciting health fact! a 'sense of impending doom' is an actual recognized medical symptom, and one associated with big systemic problems, like DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation) from a blood transfusion reaction, or with sepsis!

#trivia #health #dic #sepsis #sense of impending doom

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cozy-kitty-corner · 7 months

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SBI Whumptober Day 4 - Sepsis and “why didn’t you tell us?” combined

It started five days ago. It was just a small cut on his legs, nothing big. Wilbur had worried, but Techno brushed it off, saying it was fine. And it was. Technoblade never dies, that’s his saying. It doesn’t matter that the wound infected, it’s fine. Wilbur doesn’t need to know. He doesn’t need to worry.

(Even if his leg burned. Even if it took all of his willpower to not react to the way daggers pierced up his leg with every step.)

And then… then it wasn’t quite so fine. 2 days in, his appetite left. 3 days in, he woke up every hour of the night in a cold sweat. 4 days in, tiny red spots surrounded the wound when the bandages were changed by the medic. 5 days in, he couldn’t focus on the simplest of battle plans in a meeting.

And on the 6th day, Wilbur caught on.

Technoblade was lying on his side on a small mat, staring with unfocused eyes at the gently billowing tent wall, when his twin stormed in with unruly curls spilling over into his panicked eyes.

“You have sepsis and you didn’t tell me!?”

It wasn’t really a question. Even so, Wilbur quickly caught on to the fact that Techno didn’t have the mental strength to form a sentence in response.

(It was a feat that he was processing the brunettes words at all, really.)

Wilbur snapped out of his haze after a moment, pushing his hair back and practically running the short distance to his twin.

A broken sob escaped him as he gathered his barely responsive brother into his arms, burying his face into the pink hair.

(And something in Techno’s heart broke, past the haze clouding his mind.)

“Techno, why wouldn’t you tell me? I’m your twin, I’m supposed to be the person you trust.” Another sob slipped out, and Wilbur quickly devolved into heaving gasps as tears streamed down into Techno’s hair.

Eventually, Techno’s other half quietened, and the brother realized that, finally, he could leave in peace.

(As much as he ever could, with half of his heart still walking on the Earth.)

He is gone by morning.

The funeral is small, as is every funeral when the land is still scarred by war.

Wilbur is one of the few attending, so he watches as his brother is lain into the Earth.

(His braid was simple. Wilbur hadn’t been the one to take care of the younger twin’s hair since they were young, but it was the same little crown they always joked about when he’d weaved it. Those memories felt heavier now.)

And he’s the only one left behind when the rest of the attendees exit the area.

Nobody is there to watch him break.

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