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[jumpthegun]

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[devoutish]

I wouldn't know anything about cooking bacon safely - I'll ask Royce. If it's crispy and smelly, it's well-done, yeah?

[jumpthegun]

Yeah. There should be more than just pork, though. Seafood's typically okay to do raw if they've got any fish. Not sure if sushi and the like were popular back in your day.

[devoutish]

Raw fish? I think the Chinese eat that.

[jumpthegun]

Sushi is more Japanese, but you've got the right geography. Doubt it'll be much to her tastes, but it's nutritious and safe compared to eating raw chicken, steak, or pork.

[devoutish]

Nee how.

[Truly putting Kesara to shame here.]

Lucky, that. I haven't got much to cook with.

[jumpthegun]

I think you mean 'ni hao.'

Fruits and veggies, particularly beans, should be the next priorities after that.

[devoutish]

I know what healthy foods are, mate.

[jumpthegun]

[You're a 1920s gangster, Alfie. He's not sure with you sometimes!]

All right. Tell me once you've spoken to Duster if you want my medical advice and prescriptions, then.

[devoutish]

[He just hangs up there, with no response back. But a few hours later, he texts again.]

You do understand why we worry.

[It's a question without a question mark - he assumes Watson does, but isn't 100% sure.]

[jumpthegun]

Of course I understand. She's a little girl and you're trying to do the best you can for her in a place like this with limited information and everything trying to kill us.

[Sometimes succeeding, as evinced by Kesara's name in the Obits and a number of other little girls before her, not to mention kids like Quark and Alphonse.]

I'll let you know my opinion on what I think the best course of treatment is. My opinion is non-negotiable. What we actually do to help her is. And that's up to her and it's up to you.

[devoutish]

Limited information, limited resources. Something goes wrong and all the doctors are days away.

[jumpthegun]

I'm aware. What would you like to do, then? Ask someone else? Just get her help.

[devoutish]

Are there potentially dangerous side effects for the lower-dose pills?

[jumpthegun]

Yes. There are inherent risks in every medicine, especially for children. They're some of the most sensitive. Something like ibuprofen, which is what I'd give her in lieu of narcotics, is probably the safest option available. Most people don't have any complications. When properly managing dosage, there usually aren't dangerous side effects for narcotics, either, though.

[devoutish]

I'm an odds man. Give me odds.

[jumpthegun]

I don't know the actually statistics, but I can put it in perspective. If you have a 100 kids, maybe 1 in 100 might develop serious side effects from NSAIDs, even when receiving appropriate dosages and being monitored. It would be more like 5-to-10 in 100 for narcotics.

[devoutish]

That's good odds at home.

[But not here, in his opinion.]

[jumpthegun]

But not good enough for you here.

Have you asked her where her pain levels are?

[devoutish]

It's a strong ache she feels down to the bone, especially in the hands. Royce has given her a very small amount of his medicine, aspirin, but it didn't help.

[jumpthegun]

Tell him to stop giving her aspirin immediately. She needs ibuprofen, if we're doing an NSAID. It's safer and it'll act the same way.

It sounds like she's suffering from pain we'd typically associate with arthritis. Ibuprofen at a dose calculated for her weight is where I'd recommend starting, in that case. I can send a prescription in to the Admin for two weeks' worth. We can see how that goes and then reassess the options when we see how she's responding to it.

[devoutish]

All right. Try that.

You know it's MN poisoning, of course.

[jumpthegun]

Yeah. Did she ask after her blood type, by chance?

[devoutish]

I doubt she knows what a blood type is.

[jumpthegun]

If I'm going to figure out a potential donor for her once we get the supplies together, I'd like to know what her blood type is. I can ask for her, she'd just need to give me permission.

[devoutish]

Yeah, all right. I'll ask. But we can give you permission on her behalf, yeah?