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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
jheartney:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jan 2015, 07:15 ---DOCTOR: "I have a Mr Marten Reed as Ms Whittaker's designated emergency contact...?"
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Unless Faye has a legal directive authorizing Marten to do so, he can't make any medical decisions on Faye's behalf. Hospital will try to make contact with next of kin, so I hope Marten has their number. He wouldn't be a designated emergency contact unless Faye has woken up and made him such. Assuming Faye's still out, they'll either be treating her in the ER or admitting her. If there's no insurance available, they'll be less likely to admit her. (Yes, I've been through family medical drama. It's grim.)
This all assumes that Marten is on the ball enough to realize he needs to call 911. The fact that he called Claire first is not a good sign. WRT all the speculation about how much she consumed/pills or blood in the vomit etc. this is all beside the point. She was passed out in her own vomit. That's enough to call in professionals and not play guessing games.
SRRRRRRRR:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 23 Jan 2015, 02:21 ---New bet:
What are the odds Sven finds out about this, ends up on Angus's talk show as a music guest some day, and punches him in front of the cameras for reasons neither of them fully understands?
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I'd pay to see that.
Then the next comic is immediately a joke about butts. Possibly about how someone got their butt kicked.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 23 Jan 2015, 07:41 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jan 2015, 07:15 ---DOCTOR: "I have a Mr Marten Reed as Ms Whittaker's designated emergency contact...?"
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Unless Faye has a legal directive authorizing Marten to do so, he can't make any medical decisions on Faye's behalf.
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This is only a gut feeling on my part but I suspect that Faye has long since had either Dora or Marten listed officially as having authorisation to act on her behalf if she's incapacitated. Her mother lives several states away and there is no guarantee that she would be available; the sensible move for Faye would be to have the most clear-headed of her friends named to act for her.
eschaton:
Prediction: This is Faye hitting bottom, at least for now. She may relapse later, but nearly killing herself (either intentionally or unintentionally) with booze is so excessive that everyone will know she has a drinking problem and do everything they can to make her stop. And presuming she didn't actually try to commit suicide (or, when she sobers up, is horrified that she tried) she'll probably be scared straight for a bit. After all, Jeph has never before shown the degree of sadism to make one of his characters have a very, very bad spell for months of comic time on end. Also, Jeph has been open about is own alcoholism, and of course he himself never "hit bottom" in the sense of destroying every aspect of his life before he got wise and sobered up. There's no reason to think that Faye will either.
One other prediction: This will sunder the friendship between Dora and Marten. Marten will hear about what happened - either when he calls Dora to ask if anything unusual happened at work today, or when he reboots Pintsize. He will be viscerally angry at Dora for how she handled the situation, even before Faye gets a chance to put her two cents in and make herself look better. Like many in the thread, he will wonder why she didn't just tell Dora to go home, or put her on leave without pay. Dora may blame herself, or may take the "I'm sorry to hear this happened, but she made her own choices here, not me." Either way, Marten will be much more upset with Dora than Faye, and it may take him quite a long time (even longer than Faye, perhaps) to forgive and forget.
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 22 Jan 2015, 21:16 ---Ya'll's is forgettin'. Marten's barely 26. Party days are not a distant memory. He's probably not really versed on the dangers of alcohol overdose. Passed out, puked, and breathing is a party foul at that age.
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Indeed. It's a good thing both bottles are still next to her, or he wouldn't consider the seriousness of the situation.
--- Quote from: Mr. Skawronska on 23 Jan 2015, 03:48 ---Yet another misery she has visited upon poor Marten. She really is a happiness vampire.
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For fuck's sake, stop it with this. As I said upthread, you can hate Faye, but pretty soon after "the talk" she settled into being a great friend for him. Almost all positive changes in his life, other than working at the library, are due to knowing Faye. She's a good friend who headed into a dark place, and Marten is responding with compassion, as he should.
dexeron:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 23 Jan 2015, 07:36 ---
--- Quote from: dexeron on 23 Jan 2015, 07:34 ---OK, I'm a noob, and I know this isn't the time for it...
but someone has to explain to me the whole "While you were posting, such and such" thing, and how it seems to (sometimes) intelligently comment on what's been posted.
Are these forums actually a self-aware AI? They are, aren't they? And QC is just Jeph's extremely round-about way of making society comfortable with the concept of AI-human interaction.
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We copy and paste them, add a colour tag and edit it ourselves.
Sorry. Is this like telling a kid the Santa Clause in the mall isn't real by shooting him execution-style in front of them?
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Awwwwww, there goes my headcanon. :(
Unless... that's what the self-aware forum AI wants me to think... ;)
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