He's seen a tourniquet before, a piece of any amputation, but they aren't kept so long. Kills the flesh by inches. Isaac slips clean fingertip beneath the top edge of cuff. Numbness radiates down nail, and the pinch of his brow can wait. What matters is that the band's loose enough to stay.
Linen clings with purulence, red radiating out from stump along the telltale track of infection. Maker willing, she won't need debridement, but sickness travels beyond the site of a wound. If it's gone this far, it's in the rest of her.
(He is looking for more than dead tissue, swollen sutures. He is looking for a thread of green.)
"You'll sleep," Ordinarily, he offers patients a choice. The choice, as it stands is to do, or to die. "Several hours, maybe longer. You'll wake here."
He's read the emergency forms, he hasn't memorized them. So while she's present enough to recoil, it's worth asking:
"Who do you want with you?"
To watch, or to hold her hand, or whatever petty comfort might suffice. This will be easier if she doesn't fight it.
im not typing then he uses tonys hand sanitizer but assume he did or whatever
He's seen a tourniquet before, a piece of any amputation, but they aren't kept so long. Kills the flesh by inches. Isaac slips clean fingertip beneath the top edge of cuff. Numbness radiates down nail, and the pinch of his brow can wait. What matters is that the band's loose enough to stay.
Linen clings with purulence, red radiating out from stump along the telltale track of infection. Maker willing, she won't need debridement, but sickness travels beyond the site of a wound. If it's gone this far, it's in the rest of her.
(He is looking for more than dead tissue, swollen sutures. He is looking for a thread of green.)
"You'll sleep," Ordinarily, he offers patients a choice. The choice, as it stands is to do, or to die. "Several hours, maybe longer. You'll wake here."
He's read the emergency forms, he hasn't memorized them. So while she's present enough to recoil, it's worth asking:
"Who do you want with you?"
To watch, or to hold her hand, or whatever petty comfort might suffice. This will be easier if she doesn't fight it.