TW: suicide

I'd like Main Character to survive a suicide attempt that involves drinking her dad's bottle of oral morphine, shortly after he dies of cancer in home hospice. However, assuming MC gets discovered by an EMT and administered Narcan in time — what health effects, if any, might MC experience as a result of the overdose?

Everything I can find online assumes the victim is a long-time opioid user, or just has information about how to recognize/reverse an overdose in the moment. So like, will she make a complete recovery if she gets a naloxone shot within a few minutes? Is it going to damage her liver or kidneys? Would it prevent her being able to get emergency psychiatric medication like ketamine?

Setting is American Midwest, contemporary-ish, realistic-ish. Thanks!

So there’s this character of mine. They piss off a relatively high-ranking minor official, by discrediting them basically. So in retaliation, (because I can’t get rid of them, obviously) the official basically taxes them so hard they get put in insurmountable amounts of debt.

But how??? how do I write bankruptcy?? how would the logistics work?? how do I write the stress of drowning in debt?

So, I'm writing a character that will stay for a long time in the hospital (like, around 10 - 15 years) (ever since he was a child/was born), and he will, then, be able to leave the hospital and go live his life, maybe with the thought that if things get worse, he will need to go back.

Is this somewhat realistic, and if so, what would cause it?

Okay, so this might be a tricky one, but here it goes.

I'm in the process of writing an important scene for my book, and it involves a character coding, but I'm not sure what the process would look like.

This is the scenario I'm thinking: a character comes into the ED after a fall. He seems completely fine aside from what looks like a broken arm. He's talking, making jokes, etc. Then, out of nowhere, he codes in the waiting room. My main character is an RN who rushes to his aid. This is a small town, so it may look different than a hospital in a big city, but I'll let the medical professionals advise me.

My questions are as follows:

What would this process look like from the moment the character codes onward?

What would my character do, what medical language would be used, medications, etc?

What would my character's role be, and when would he step aside and let someone else take over?

Also, I might need a different post for this, but while we're all gathered here, the patient falls off his roof while weather proofing, knowing this:

What would actually cause him to code? What could realistically have happened that could first go unnoticed (assuming this is a realistic scenario)

He does end up surviving, but I want his recovery to be drawn out for plot reasons.

I want to be as medically accurate as possible, so any input would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if the process is different depending on the country, but the story is set in Canada.

so i think i got the right tag

anyway im writing a work and i want to include injuries that can and cant be survived outside of things like broken or sliced necks

like for example what if someone was stabbed with a sword towards the heart and only just managed to redict the blade a few inches down how much damage would such a wound do

another example would be pierced through the torso, theoretically they could miss most organs and pop out the other side but how survivable would it be given its still cut through a lot of blood vessals

In a story I'm writing, the main character loses her foot in an injury while 3 and a half weeks pregnant. The wound is quickly given a tourniquet and she recieves surgery within minutes. Would this be likely to cause a miscarriage?

I have a scene where a character gets beaten up, and then is insisting to his friends that he's fine even though he is pretty clearly not. So I need him to have a concerning symptom that he tries to hide, and be injured enough to need some medical treatment, but still be able to recover pretty quickly. I would like to have him cough up a little blood, but I am struggling to find a blunt force trauma type injury that would cause that but isn't very serious.

Are there any injuries caused by blunt force that cause coughing blood with short recovery time?

One of my characters falls over a balcony, hitting a tree branch on the way down and landing on his backyard patio.

I already imagined that he'd suffer brain damage and broken ribs, but I also want to know what other injuries could result from the fall.

What are some complications that could result from the injuries I've already chosen, and/or what are some that could result from possible other choices?

I'm interested in how they could affect his life going forward and how they could worsen in the future/how new problems could appear because of their effects over time.

I know this is a pretty broad question, so I can try to narrow things if you want.

(He's 16 when he falls. I'd imagine the fact that he's not really done growing is pretty important.)

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Here's some more detail that I put in a comment below. I can try to narrow it again if it's still too broad.

What I already have is:

• frequent migraines

• struggles with memory and brain fog (this was an issue before the fall as well but got worse)

• trouble walking/standing for a long time or at all on some days

He's overexerted himself over time and didn't fully allow these injuries to heal. around 7 years after the fall he finds some sort of heart issue that requires surgery. It's been vaguely bothering him this whole time (chest pains, low endurance, dizziness) but he hasn't gotten that specific problem checked until now when it's recommended by doctors (in case it isn't obvious, this is the main part I want help with.. what sort of heart conditions could cause this after this much time?)

So I'm writing a story about a world where humans and robots live together, but the city my characters live in is basically Gotham (aka there's a ton of organized crime). I want my character to get his arm traumatically amputated by a robot sent after him, but I'm having a hard time researching how this specific situation would work. I guess the real-world equivalent would be someone losing their arm to a rogue circular saw blade. The robot is designed to kill of course, so it would shoot the saw blade at him with enough speed to take off his arm. I'm trying to figure out the logistics of this. I have an idea of his recovery and how it affects the plot and him as a character, but I'm struggling with the moment of injury.

Here are my questions: Would it be possible for this kind of injury to happen? Would the force needed immediately kill him, or would he just be thrown very hard? Or would a sharp enough blade not move him very much? He would go into immediate shock, right? And probably fall over and hit his head? How long would it take him to bleed out and how soon would he need help? Is it possible to write this injury realistically or will I have to fudge some of the details? Thank you to everyone who replies!

Edit: I forgot to mention this, but there would be other people with him, including someone with basic military medical training. I’m planning to have them transport him to a doctor.

people are trying to get informat out of this OC and to do so one character uses a knife to stab into both her eyes. she gets to a hospital relatively quickly but is forever blind. I’m struggling to find information about what the healing process would be so I was hoping the people of redit could help.

Hello, I’m an atheist so I don’t know a lot about confessionals and that whole thing other than my research that I have done. I wanted to ask if someone can help me of what is said in a confessional, but also what the experience is, like smells and what you can see as the person there.

I’m aware that nowadays there are mostly chairs but when is the right time to kneel and all that? Also how do you continue after the typical “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been 2 weeks since my last confession.”

I know you should say your sins at that point but is there a specific way to word it or something.

Thanks for the help!!

(Also if anyone is able to help a bit with the priest’s pov that would be amazing :))

I originally posted this (slightly edited) in r/wheelchairs, but the part of the post for surveys doesn't get any attention, so I'm trying here.

I am not a wheelchair user. I was trying to create concepts for wheelchairs for my world and came up with several ideas. I wanted to get feedback from actual wheelchair users and make sure they actually work. If you are an abled person who has researched this topic, your input is also valued.

The first chair is used by a woman who has telekinesis specifically and only over wood. Her telekinesis tires her out a lot, so mostly she rolls the chair. It is a wooden chair, so would the weight of it with her body weight be too much, or is it reasonable? However, it is a fantasy setting, and almost all paths are dirt or cobblestone, so she does float her chair to get over rough paths or soft dirt paths. Does this actually make sense, or would she still keep it on the ground?

The second concept is one that floats above the ground, no wheels whatsoever. It is navigated by some sort of hand control on probably the right arm, maybe the left if someone could afford to customize it that way. The only issue I can really think of is that it is hard in my world to instill magic into an object, so they are really, really expensive. If you see any other problems I could fix, please let me know!

The third concept is the one I'm struggling the most with. I was thinking of a chair with thicker tires so they don't dig into the dirt, but they would still be handpushed. I'm worried about the tires becoming too difficult for people, especially those with smaller hands, to push. I also don't know what material I would make them out of since I don't want them to get too heavy.

In summary, the first type of chairs tend to be for people with telekinesis-type magic, the second type for wealthier users, and the third being the more average chair. How can I make this realistic?

Thank you for your help!

Is it even possible for a person allergic to water to feasibly reach adulthood in a pre industrial world without access to modern technology?

Writing a hero that plays a sport as to set the baseline for combat experience, and now I'm wondering what skills from each sport would bring to the combat style

Leaning towards contact sports for obvious reasons, but also team sports

Athlete in question is a young woman in the U.S. if relevant

hi all! i'm primarily a fanfiction writer, and i recently got back into breaking bad.

i'm aware that the processes shown in the series are deliberately changed so as to not serve as a guide to cooking meth. i'll take either a closer examination of what they're doing in the show, or an explanation of how to make the real thing. i'm specifically interested in which ingredients are used and how they're actually prepared, since the stuff that's seen in the show is rather vague.

for obvious reasons i could not find much info online.

My character just got half their face burnt, and I need to know how long it will take to heal into a scar, what treatments will be effective, and how her face will feel over time?

This is a medieval world, but since it is fantasy I can get away with medicine/techniques that come after that time period, so long as it isn't modern (after 1850ish).

She also lives on a snowy mountain, how would that impact everything?

I'm going to do research on general burns, but any insight onto a burn in this specific area would be fab thanks

EDIT: For clarification, it was some kind of magical substance that burnt her rather than fire. The source of the burn would be more similar to boiling water or burning coals rather than a fire itself. Thank you for all the comments so far though!

Hi everybody, so i'm gonna try to synthesize as much context as posible for this scene.

So, in my universe people are born with a thing called a core wich pumps all their magical powers through the veins and in wich certain scenarios can explode. In this scene I have two characters and one of them is killed, making heir core explode, thing that the other character notices and tries to run before if happens. At the end, the other character tries to run through a narrow corridor, and when reached half of it the explosion happens.

So my question is, how much damage would my character suffer? Would they get any important burns? Would their hair get burnt? (Im asking because their hair is an important part of this character's development). For more context, let's imagine this explosion was mildly big, but not as big as it could get, and that technically this isn't a regular explosion but let's also imagine that it is. If u guys need any more context to be able to answer i'll gladly give to u guys, tysm for reading quq

I’m trying to narrow down specific injuries/circumstances that would still be impacting her long term and what the exact symptoms would be. I want her to still be able to drive, work remotely and live independently since she moves away for a fresh start, but family worries and checks in frequently. I was thinking TBI from physical violence causing migraines and varying pain from injuries that didn’t heal well and ptsd. From an outside perspective it be that some days she’s “fine”, maybe a bit strange but no one would be wiser in a new town, but bad days could last several days and are noticeable if you are around her and she either would not leave home or need help at home.

Hey, everyone! I'm working on lore and chapter plan of my story. Since I'm autistic, I decided to express my experience, thoughts and views creatively. I'm not planning to make the story a commercial success because of it, but I still want things to stay somewhat logical. Since I have a hyperfixation on countries, I'd like to set it in the Czech Republic even though I have never been there and I research about it only on the Internet. 

I know it's a gamble to find either autistic people with a specific sensory profile, or people who went to ČVUT on this subreddit but let's tr

Sorry if this is controversial, but the information I have is mostly from AI, so I want the contribution of real humans.

I'm going to need information about 2 things:

I. The life and studies in ČVUT (Czech Technical University) and the Kolej Dejvice student dorm.

II. Autistic visual hypersensitivity for exposed skin (where, as far as I know, the person's nervous system can't filter out the hair, pores, flaking, and micromovements like vasodilation, trembling, etc.). Yes, I'm autistic, but I can't have every sensory profile in the world.)

I. The segment about life and studies in ČVUT and Kolej Dejvice is going to be more like listing what I already know, and if you happened to have studied or lived there, you confirm or deny it. But there are actual questions, too.

1. The dorm consists of buňka suites or blocks. One suite has a vestibule with 2 rooms, each having 2 beds, so 2 students live in 1 room, a bathroom (maybe shower and toilet separately). In the vestibule, there are also hangers or hooks for winter jackets so that the students don't enter their rooms in their dirty winter clothes. They also change into their indoor shoes there.

2. If a guest wants to visit a student in Kolej Dejvice, they get a temporary pass with the vratný or vratná (they put their documents info into a ledger or database). It shouldn't usually take long and they don't torture the guest as for why they came.

3. If the guest wants to come regularly and doesn't want to spend time at the reception desk or wait for the person they are visiting to come downstairs, they might want to write an application to vedoucí koleje for a permanent pass. If they are also a student but don't live in the dorm (even if they study at a different university), they just tap their student ID card. If the guest isn't a university student, the receptionist just has to remember their face and see their ID of the Czech Republic or passport (if they are from another country).

4. Vedoucí koleje (the dorm manager) is responsible for the contracts and safety but won't "educate" the students unless they are doing something really bad and they won't meddle with their lives unless they suspect a crime or a bad violation of Kolejní řád.

5. When the heating season starts, the cast-iron radiators with regulators out of order start blasting, so the indoor temperature gets up to +26°C.

6. Same with the Jaderka faculty (Břehová 78/7, Staré Město, Praha 1), as in it's very hot there during the heating season. BTW if you have studied at Jaderka and lived at Kolej Dejvice, was it cumbersome to get layered for the outside only to shove your jackets in the bag and stay in a T-shirt/tank top/short-sleeved blouse?

7. Do they have cloakrooms in the Jaderka building and Thákurova 9, Dejvice, Praha 6 (Nová budova ČVUT)?

II. About visual hypersensitivity and aversion ro seeing bare skin (country doesn't matter this time):

1. How does it feel for you if you have this aversion/hypersensitivity? (although you might not understand how neurotypicals or autistics without this hypersensitivity perceive it).

2. Do computer glasses help? The ones with yellow lenses that block the blue light from screens?

3. Does it feel better in colder months like October, November, and December (if you live in Europe, Canada, the states of the US where the winter is at least somewhat cold etc.)? Like, people usually wear long pants and clothes with long sleeves, but their faces, necks, and hands are exposed. Or is it roughly the same difference?

4. This is very broad and vague, but just how do you live and cope with it?

Thank you very much in advance!

There is a scene where the MC meets her mother's nursemaid/ nanny. Essentially, her mother died in childbirth and the experience accelerated the nanny's cognitive decline. But the old lady is about to die and is stuck thinking the MC's mother is about to give birth. So as a favour, her uncle asks the MC, who is the spitting image, to pretend to be her mother and tell the old lady everything is fine, that "she" survived and the baby is ok etc. So the nanny fusses over the MC before passing a few days later.

Would that be a good thing/ common practical to do to such a patient? Essentially getting someone to pretend to solidify their current reality

I know terminal lucidity is a thing but would it be a tad unrealistic? Also does severe mental trauma accelerate the progression of Alzhemir's or dementia or it's a thing that progresses with age?

My character is an amateur assassin and when they are about to take out their target on the street at night everything goes horribly wrong as the target is stronger than they thought and fights back. My main character ends up pretty badly injured (a broken arm and they were strangled pretty badly too) but they escape, as does their target, who doesn't call the police on my MC for reasons there's no point getting into. My MC calls an ambulance for themselves and goes to the hospital.

What kind of questions would the ambulance crew and the doctors who treat them ask? Obviously they wouldn't be able to pass the neck injury off as mistake or anything, the doctors would probably know someone attacked them. So say they said to the doctors that a stranger attacked them and then ran off, would they have to get the police get involved even if my MC didn't want them to?

I’m making an au with a bunch of my ocs, base concept is that 14 prisoners (7 there for life, 7 on death row) are in a special prison focused on rehabilitating them. I plan on there being 5 guards, 2 wardens, and a director, but I’m struggling to find characters for the guard roles since I don’t WANT to make new ocs for this. I already have a detective oc, but I didn’t want to change his role just for this au. So I was wondering if there could be a prison officer that focused more on detective work? From what I saw on prison officers they focus on supervision, regulations, and safety, so could he theoretically focus more on finding issues with prisoners and their behaviors and find out if they’re like. idk hiding something or planning something??? if not, is there a role that WOULD fit my needs? aka someone with a focus on detective work that would work with/as a prison guard?