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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
DillyDolly:
--- Quote from: Y on 26 Jan 2015, 10:20 ---This fading beeps seems like it's the perfect setup for such a hallucination or even a near death experience, where she talks with her father while unconscious. Or perhaps she might wake up in a robot body with the help of Hanner's prototype if her body is beyond repair.
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I really hope neither of those things happen. The talking to your dead relative/near-death-experience trope is really overdone to the ground. It is almost always cheesy when it's done. Even in real life it is—most recently thinking of that Malarky boy who made up meeting Jesus. It's also better we never know more about her father (beyond what Faye knows or other people tell her). That's how it is in real life. Death is an end. You might see beautiful hints of your loved one in other places or if you are religious you may believe you'll see them again, but people do not see their dead loved ones multiple times in real life. Sure, I can see in QC's world someday something happening like what goes on in O'Human Star (another really cool webcomic), but I don't think that's the kind of story we are getting.
The robot body thing would be minimizing the whole seriousness of the situation. And really? We already have one character who has part of a body replaced by a robot part. Do we really need the main character to be a cyborg? Okay, might be cool in other situations...but not this one. :)
gprimr1:
Could be dialysis if the alcohol poisoning was very severe, but more than likely it's infusing normal saline or ringers lactate to keep her hydrated.
Pilchard123:
Admittedly it's only one person's experience, but I have a friend who goes for haemodialysis regularly and the IV always goes into their inner arm, above the wrist.
Aimless:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Jan 2015, 23:57 ---Aimless, would you like to weigh in on any of the medical arguments?
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Their scrubs are prettier than ours :x
To be clear, I work in neurology and deal with a very particular group of drunk people, eg. if they have seizures or have been found unconscious with little information about what's happened. Most of my patients in this category are older than Faye and have a longer history of more overt alcohol abuse. By the time the regular "partiers" flood the ER, I'm usually back on the wards or in bed and have only minimal contact with the severely inebriated youngsters who're spread out all over the ER waiting to sober up.
Many young people, esp. those who've been severely drunk or have seen many who've been severely drunk, think that being extremely drunk and "asleep" is no big deal. And, sure, most young people in such situations sober up and seem fine after a couple of days. There are many people whom I'd either admit or at least keep in the ER for observation who never come to our attention, and many of those are hopefully watched over by friends and acquaintances or family, which may be all right even though if anyone asked me I'd recommend assessment by medical personnel and some bloodwork at least because I know that, while being drunk can be all right, it can also be very unpredictable.
If we have reason to believe Faye may have drunk two bottles of hard liquor in a short time then we're talking about a potentially lethal dose with a person who's seemingly unconscious and initially unresponsive, where we have no idea what happened. At the very least she needs to be stabilised, taken to the ER, examined by a physician, and admitted for monitoring and tests while she sobers up and pref. for a while after that as well (for psychiatric assessment, getting a better idea of her current situation, and also waiting to see if she develops pneumonia :o). I'll grant I'm a bit of a fraidycat but anything over "one bottle and a bit" of hard liquor is something you should take very seriously even in a young person who's seemingly healthy in all other respects. Just my 2c, I know that there are some docs who'd be more chill (esp. in a less litiginous society) but I don't think that'd be rational in this situation and my admittedly limited experience bears this out. Seizures, life-threatening bleeds from various places, arrhytmias, respiratory depression, severe pneumonia, just all sorts of shit. Someone's gonna be unlucky and you can't just assume it's not going to be your drunk friend.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Jedit on 26 Jan 2015, 11:00 ---On the other hand, it often seems like every humorous "slice of fictional life" cartoonist eventually does the "see I can do deep and serious" arc, they always think it's the best thing they've ever done, and it's always the nadir because when you write humour your audience are there to laugh, not cry. Randy Milholland is the only person who really gets away with it, but Something Positive has always been jokes about being unhappy that sometimes stop being jokes. I hope Jeph can do the same.
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Jeph and Randy know of each other. There is speculation that Randy the Bandicoot is named for S*P's creator - and, in fact, Davan has appeared in a non-speaking cameo in the strip. (Of course, so has Wil Wheaton, so there's that...)
Jeph has also done the serious/humor thing pretty much throughout the run of the strip, so something like this isn't going to floor us - at least, not like Faye's drunken right hook did to Marty in that one panel.
(See? Jeph can do drama and humor in the same strip...)
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