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[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

If you were looking for me, you reached me. If you don't know who 'me' is then you didn't reach who you were looking for.

If this is Red calling about jobs, just leave the information and I'll be there.

If this is Sis, then promise I'll get back to you ASAP. If you're got a recipe idea just tell me what it is and I'll look into it.

Otherwise leave your name and message and I'll contact you soon dears.

Comments

[baruthumos]

[Dramatic sigh] I suppose you're more likely to run into that, with the plague clouds and all.

A pneumothorax and a collapsed lung aren't really the same thing. A pneumothorax is a bubble of air between your chest wall and your lung that collapses part of your lung. They are caused by air leaking out of your lung into your chest, either because of trauma or disease causing it to pop a hole.

Very small ones are left alone. Medium sized ones, they use a syringe or a vacuum to suck the air out. Only if it's very large do they slice you open to glue shut the hole in the lung itself.

Then you just take it easy for a while. And hope it doesn't happen again. Especially if it was caused by disease.

Pneumothorax is the leading cause of death by plague cloud exposure in people who never make it inside, and the fourth in people who have bad helmets or who don't make it to a hospital. Once you're in the hospital, you'll live long enough for something else to kill you.

[depthlesslock]

no. it's like earn, but not and i'm sure it starts with d

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Oh. I didn't know how clouds killed you, just that they did.

[baruthumos]

Clouds kill you in plenty of ways. If it's the kind that punches holes in your lungs, and the holes are big enough, that's just the one that gets to you first.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Discern and earn sound alike.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

And good filters keep that from happening?

[depthlesslock]

it's not discern, that wouldn't make sense. "you discern trust"

[baruthumos]

Good filters will, unless it's a bad storm, and even then give you enough time to get inside. The ones that let you walk around in a storm? Those are rationed, only for emergency services.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

You're the one talking, not me.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

And mercs?

[depthlesslock]

...look, i'm still having trouble remembering some words. they just... I know what i mean to say, but i cant remember the word for it

[baruthumos]

If you had enough money, maybe. Depends on the storm and what it's rated for. My old helmet? There's been maybe four storms in five years I couldn't go out in, because my filter doubled for hazmat cleanup.

But if you're a paramedic, and someone has an emergency in that storm?

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Sorry. I'll try and be nice.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Wow your helmet sounds way better than mine.

[baruthumos]

My new helmet is just about the greatest thing anyone has ever put on their head. My old helmet? A piece of junk with a good filter shoved in.

[depthlesslock]

it's okay. just explaining

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

What do you mean, your new one?

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Really super sorry. And... now I can't remember what we were even talking about.

[baruthumos]

My one with the purple stripes. My brother built it for me. It calculates blast radii and lets me see veins. So cool.

[depthlesslock]

seriosuly, Abby, don't worry about it. uh... no, me neither. could check back or just move on

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Haven't seen it. Your brother knows how to build stuff?

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

Move on please. How you doing?

[depthlesslock]

doing better. starting to make sounds that noise more like words, thank god. hopefully start trying to walk again soon

[baruthumos]

He makes helmets. Super-cool helmets. He knows other stuff, too, but that's how he sells his labor.

[quicksmiles_nimblefingers]

If you want someone to cheer you on, the octopus should help.