Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
pelotard:
Faye's very unlikely to be dead. Alcohol poisoning kills you by knocking out the brain stem, which stops the breathing reflex. That's why you're advised to check the breathing of anyone drunk and unconscious: if they breathe normally, there's a fair chance they're just sleeping; if they're not, dial your local emergency number NOW. (But don't take their breathing as gospel: try to wake them up, which is what Marten does in panel 1. If the say "Get lost", or anything intelligible and relevant at all, they're fine. If you can't make contact, again, call the local emergency number, which is what Marten did. Well done. By the book.) Faye stopped drinking some time before the last panel, probably a couple of hours or so, meaning her blood alcohol isn't going up any more, so she should be fine. And if she isn't, they'll put her on a ventilator and she will be fine. Except that she'll have a mother of a hangover when she wakes up.
All of this assumes that Jeph isn't messing things up further by Faye having a pre-existing medical condition like an aneurysm or whatever, but that's a bit like "and then the ambulance careened off the edge of Grand Canyon on the way to the hospital", which, er, No.
And she punched Marten simply because the weirdest things can look like a good idea when you're drunk. Trust me on that last one, said the bloke who once got himself locked up under a particle accelerator.
Wildroses:
Come to think of it, are Faye's doctors going to be able to access enough of her medical history to see that she ended up spending two years dealing with a mental health issues after a serious car accident that may have been intentional? That could have some impact on how long they decide to keep her in hospital.
katsmeat:
It struck me that Pintsize being turned off is quite relevant to the plot...
A companion-AI would almost certainly have been given the ability to recognize and respond to medical emergencies; giving them that ability is only sensible. For Marten to discover Faye, Pintsize must be out of the picture, otherwise he would have called an ambulance long before Marten returned.
tmofee:
the heart monitor machine is pretty standard.
my first panic attack they hooked me up to one as well. she's not dead.
she MAY have had charcol/ stomach pump, IV drip to get fluids back into.
tmofee:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 26 Jan 2015, 02:57 ---A companion-AI would almost certainly have been given the ability to recognize and respond to medical emergencies; giving them that ability is only sensible. For Marten to discover Faye, Pintsize must be out of the picture, otherwise he would have called an ambulance long before Marten returned.
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my guess he probably said something smart and copped faye rage...
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