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let's find out if Marian's ICU and two different kinds of magic healing can save radiation-poisoned Leareth
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Shavri is so tired. 

 

She Mindspeaks Dr Harrison and Dr Chadra as well as Marian and Samora. :I think you'd be better off letting him wake himself up slowly. Keep reducing the drugs, slowly, and don't bother him. If the first experience he has is of being under attack, it's not going to go well. ...If you can give him any drugs for pain and nausea specifically, he's probably going to wake up calmer if he feels less like he's dying horribly.:

To Samora, she adds, :- save the Calm Emotions spell. It'll do the most good when he has a chance of staying alert and lucid without it. He's not even processing that I exist, yet, if we calm him down he'll immediately pass out again so we might as well do it with the drugs.: 

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Marian kiiind of feels like this is the sort of situation where there simply does not exist a dose of meds that will succeed at relieving Leareth's symptoms without by itself making him so drowsy that they can't get a good neuro assessment anyway. 

 

"- You had a spell prepared that helps with nausea, right?" she asks Samora. "It's just that we were planning to use it as a Cure instead? - being nauseous is so bad, I'm not surprised he's kind of freaking out about feeling terrible." 

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"Yes, I have two and they'll last an hour each. I can do one right before the Calm Emotions, but not right after because I have to keep concentrating on the Calm Emotions the whole time it's running. Being nauseous is harder to think through than pain, in some ways; I expect suppressing it will help."

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“- And all our really good painkillers tend to cause nausea as a side effect, but if we’ve got a magic solution we can maybe manage a high enough dose to control his pain without just making the nausea even worse. I’ll ask the doctor.”

She goes and asks Dr Harrison.

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“Pain control? Sure, whatever, start him on fentanyl at 25, feel free to titrate up as you wean the propofol, you can do boluses of 12.5 if our telepath says he’s feeling it. I’d like Dr Chen’s input on medication options for nausea, I don’t love sacrificing a Cure spell backup when we’ve got twelve hours to go until dawn. - Oy, Healer, how fast are we losing ground?”

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Shavri rubs her eyes. :- Not as fast as I’d feared, but - steadily - and he’s losing ground on Endurance again, he’ll get less out of Cures or channels closer to morning. I think he can get by on two more, in - let’s say four more hours, and then five-ish hours after that - but it’d be a big gamble to use up everything and be left with nothing except Stabilize for the last few hours of the night.:

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“- Samora, you have three channels left, right? So we’d still have two channels for emergency backup closer to morning, if we use a Remove Sickness for the nausea and then the other for a Cure later, he’ll need a channel at like - five am or something - and if he’s stable at six-thirty we can maybe afford to send you to run and use the two channels on other units that have, like, post-op patients. …I’m more stressed about you not being interruptible for a whole hour if we need Stabilize but I think there’s no helping that.”

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