Follow-up report on the Irish son-in-law

sroni’s husband Conal is still in the hospital, but much improved. It got a bit extreme there for a while; he spent two days in a medically-induced coma, to head off brain-swelling from all the fluids he was having to process (some from his condition, some medicinally added to treat his condition), and he’s been out of that for most of a week now. He’s even out of the ICU, and his blood sugar is now only 150-200% of normal instead of 600%.

After the original report that this was diabetes, the overall diagnosis keeps changing; they probably won’t know for sure till he fully stabilizes. There’s definitely pancreatitis in there, but it can’t yet be determined whether this is pancreatitis aggravated by diabetes, pancreatitis precipitated by diabetes, diabetes aggravated by pancreatitis, diabetes precipitated by pancreatitis, or pancreatitis leading to diabetic crisis (but not actual diabetes). If we’re lucky, it was the last one, some as-yet-unknown infection bringing about pancreatitis which brought about diabetic crisis.

There’s been luck already. My wife Susan (sroni’s mother, yes) has been a professional nurse for decades, and some of the practices and terminology in the UK may differ from ours but enough came across for her to suspect that that they were treating — or laboring mightily to prevent — multisystem organ failure. MOF is one of those things like heat stroke: however it comes about (and can do so from different causes), it WILL kill you unless actively stopped from doing so. We’re clearly past that point by now.

I didn’t really have any idea how bad it was (or could have got) until after the major threat was over. Susan suspected, I think, but 1) she has a depth of vocational knowledge that I lack, and 2) her experience has predisposed her toward pessimism, in that the worst outcomes are the ones she’s dealt with on a regular basis. I’m just pleased that things have resolved themselves as smoothly as they have.

Remix stories

These are the remixes I’ve written, in the order they were done.

   B = Backstage story   —   I = Independent story   

1  -		B26		-   Walking After Midnight    [remixing bastardsnow]
2  -		I06		-   An’ Foolish Notion    [remixing sroni]
3  -		B27		-   X-Factorial    [remixing kerravonsen]
4  -		I07		-   Jasmine Tears    [remixing Morphea]
5  -		I08		-   Family Skeletons    [remixing eilandesq]
6  -		B30		-   Otherwise a Perfect Sky    [remixing deird1]
7  -		B33		-   Hungry Like the Wolf    [remixing sunnyd_lite]
8  -		I10		-   Best Foot Forward    [remixing lwbush]
9  -		I11		-   Mortal Coil    [remixing soundingsea]
10  -		B35		-   And Your Enemies Closer    [remixing selenak]
11  -		I12		-   Yet They Grind Exceeding Small    [remixing sroni]
12  -		I14		-   In the Air Tonight    [remixing evil_little_dog]
13  -		B38		-   Bitter from the Sweet    [remixing lookingforoctober]
14  -		I15		-   Subject to Change    [remixing nothorse]
15  -		I16		-   Under the Gun    [remixing slashmarks]
16  -		B39		-   Shock to the System    [remixing comlodge]
17  -		I19		-   Man in Motion    [remixing deird1]
18  -		I20		-   Long Time Passing    [remixing velvetwhip]
19  -		B42		-   Rough Trade    [remixing eilandesq]
20  -		I21		-   Phantom 309    [remixing sunnyd_lite]
21  -		B43		-   Just Can’t Kill the Beast    [remixing sevendeadlyfun]
22  -		I22		-   Tea and Oranges    [remixing jedibuttercup]
23  -		I25		-   There Ought to Be Clowns    [remixing eilandesq]
24  -		I27		-   Friends with the Monster    [remixing dragonyphoenix]
25  -		I30		-   Jokers to the Right    [remixing sroni]
26  -		I32		-   That Thing You Do    [remixing eilandesq]
27  -		I35		-   Reality Check    [remixing lindagable]