Hiya. I am writing a fic where my main character has pneumonia and could do with some help on a few technicalities. It is set in Oxford,U.K, in the not too distant future. About 30yrs. I'm aware that things could have changed by then but I'd like to get an idea of what it's like now to build on ( Read more... )

I'd like to know how pneumonia was treated in the 1950s. I'm writing a story that takes place in West Germany in the 1950s(don't know exactly what year yet). My story features a character who had pneumonia before he fled East Germany to come to West Germany. He received treatment in East Germany, but wasn't deemed well enough to travel when he left ( Read more... )

So, the book I'm writing has a male lead character that suffered a heart disease when he was a baby, he's 15 in the book, and the setting is present day California (I haven't chosen the exact location yet). I have been leaning towards him having Endocardial Cushion Defect (also known as Atrioventricular Canal Defect), but, from my research, it ( Read more... )

I’m writing a fanfic where a female character is hurt in an explosion. What I am trying to determine is the extent and limitations of her injuries.

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Hello, and thank you in advance for your help! (And apologies to the mods for screwing up the submission before ( Read more... )

I have a character who's been tossed about, more or less like a ragdoll, by a large robot. He has one or more ribs and a closed head injury, both of which they are keeping an eye on. While modern (read: at least slightly better than present day) medical care is available, it's not immediately available for the character where he is now due to his ( Read more... )

Location: US, nowish, probably in the Deep South
Research: read up a bit on exercise-induced asthma from the Mayo Clinic and Web MD

I know more or less what the symptoms of asthma *are*, but I'm not sure of some of the details on when they'd hit, how/when my character would treat them, and so on.

( Details on my asthma patient and why he's running, that you may or may not need to actually answer my questions )

I'm trying to write a story where one character goes through a supernatural experience and ends up with some serious medical issues.  Basically, his entire body is put through the wringer.  I want the character to be physically compromised, even disabled, but have his mental faculties more or less intact.  Here's what I've come up with so far.  I ( Read more... )

Setting: Present Day, Smalltown USA ( Read more... )

Searched: pneumonia and flu epidemic, found lots of stuff on the Spanish Flu in 1918, but it's not quite relevant to what I'm looking for ( Read more... )