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Leareth is a terrible ICU patient. Does this thread need to exist: no! but who can stop me
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Leareth stops moving, but is radiating TERRORTERRORTERROR at her along the lifebond. 

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Marian snatches the opportunity to get the blood pressure cuff onto his arm and whack the button on the monitor. 

:...Okay his O2 sat isn't great but it's rising at least - he might be okay with just the mask - can you tell how bad his head is, is he bleeding again -: 

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(If Belrun looks, she can see some additional vague signs of bruising and injury, and also one of the previously-oozing blood vessels is torn again and bleeding freshly, though not fast.) 

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:He is, yeah, I'm on it: She would like to be on FEWER THINGS.

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Leareth flops back against the pillows and closes his eyes and squeezes Belrun's hand very hard.

:- scared: he sends after a while, :what - is happening - where are we...?: 

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The monitor dings. 

"Well, his blood pressure isn't too low," Marian says, while thinking the same thing loudly at Belrun. The number is 183/101. "...Actually we should try to get it lower, if we can, it'll increase the pressure in his skull and he'll bleed more." 

:Belrun: she adds in just-loud-thoughts. :Can you think of anything else to get him calmed down or should I get more sedatives - if I do that we might have to put the breathing tube back in though, and he seems to be doing okay without it: 

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:I'm trying: she tells Marian. :Leareth, we're in a hospital. I am here and we can get you all fixed up but you HAVE to calm down. Please calm down for me or we're going to have to give you sedatives:

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...He vaguely remembers something like this before - it was important to be calm, he had to stay calm - he doesn't know why, but Belrun is there and he can feel her and he trusts her. 

Even less of his mind is working per usual, right now, but he focuses on taking slow deep breaths - it only hurts a little, to do that, he vaguely remembers it hurting a lot, that's a nice change...

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"Is everything okay in here?" Dr Millinger is standing in the doorway, sounding VERY ticked off. 

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah this is terrible this is all her fault why is this the worst shift of her entire life. 

"He was confused and tried to get up and fell," Marian says stiffly. "But his wife has magic healing so she's making sure he's okay. I'll, uh, I'll tell you if we need to do anything more...?" 

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"Good, because there's another trauma case in the ED and I need to go. Page the resident if you need orders."  

Dr Millinger scowls at her and strides off, looking just as exhausted as she feels. 

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Marian hits the blood pressure cycle button again, and waits for the result to pop up - down to 159/92, which seems to match Leareth's apperance of someone gradually calming down - and she adjusts his oxygen mask - the O2 sat is up to 92%, that's fine, everything is fine... 

She turns away to face the wall and starts crying. 

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Belrun sits there, fixing bleeds, trying to be calm for Leareth, politely ignoring the crying glass-city-healer because she doesn't have anything to spare for that.

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Leareth is dizzy and nauseated and confused and can only hold onto one thought, which is that it's very important that he STAY CALM, so he hangs onto that and breathes and clings to Belrun. 

When something beeps:

:- Belrun is that wyrsa...should we run...?: 

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:No. No wyrsa. They just have a lot of noisy things here. Relax:

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Leareth gives her a helpless look. :Am I - seeing things - that are not there...?: 

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:Maybe. Also some of the stuff here is weird looking. But there are no wyrsa, okay?:

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:Oh: 

Leareth tries to lean in closer to Belrun and reach for her; this is somewhat easier without his hands tied or the ventilator tubing, but harder because Marian is trying to hold pressure on his wrist where he's still bleeding from the arterial line site. 

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It seems like he might really need the comfort, so Marian shifts herself to give him more reach. 

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Belrun does her best to snuggle up without doing him further harm.

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Marian sniffles and takes deep breaths and manages to get herself slightly under control.

She holds pressure on Leareth's wrist until eventually the bleeding seems stopped, and then wraps it with pressure-dressing tape and lets him have his hand back. 

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Leareth immediately curls to the side and tries to snuggle up in Belrun's arms. 

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Awwww they're being cute again. 

Marian sniffs again and dabs at her eyes. :I, uh - I need a bit of a break, I think - Belrun, his vitals are fine, just...keep an eye on whether he's working too hard to breathe and might get tired, I guess? And...I'll just be in the breakroom...: 

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:Okay: She is at some risk of falling back asleep herself but she will probably wake up if he's in distress.

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Everything is quiet for a little while. Elaine, the curly-haired other nurse, sits yawning at the desk outside the room and patters away at the keyboard, then goes into one of the other rooms for a bit. 

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