How Sherlock Survived a Cardiac Arrest

[wellingtongoose]

The Most Miraculous Thing

The medical explanation I am about to give for Sherlock’s survival is nowhere near as uplifting or exhilaration as watching Sherlock struggling out the steps of his mind palace with the sheer determination to live for John. If you want to keep thinking about Sherlock’s “revival” as a miracle of love and a testimony to our

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[grypas]

Had some quiet time and did a little research. According to this article:
* When not diagnosed early and treated promptly, pyogenic liver abscess can be fatal, with reported mortality rates as high as 80%-100%.
* Six weeks of antibiotics.
* Drainage.
* Pain, fever.
Loooong hospital stay.

It's the fanfic author's heaven.

I'm still trying to interpret Sherlock's comment about Wiggins: "He’ll monitor their recovery. It’s more or less his day job." I prefer to think that he monitored Sherlock's recovery at home. He might as well be an excellent chemist (whatever this implies). OR he was keeping an eye on everyone in the drug den.
ACD Holmes was fond of Billy the page. He worked for him and kept him company when Watson wasn't living with him anymore.
From Watson's POV:
"Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective." MAZA
And that is officially off topic...

[wellingtongoose]

Well, in most parts of the UK there is a service for people on long term IV antibiotics which allows them to have their antibiotics at home supervised by a registered nurse. There are some restrictions such as the drug dosing has to be once a day or max twice a day and the person has to live within a certain radius of the hospital. So I think Wiggins could have monitored Sherlock's recovery from home.

I doubt Sherlock was being treated by just Wiggins because its very hard to get hold of antibiotics without a prescription, and that's just the oral kind. High street pharmacists don't stock IV antibiotics, only hospitals do. However there might be a really good fanfiction premise for Wiggins raiding the drug cupboards of Bart's Hospital for antibiotics (and a bit of morphine on the side).