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A simple topic from herr_bookman for a late Monday morning:
When is the last time your pups were sick? What did they have?
To which I would like to add: How are they as a patient when they are sick? Or, for those who don't get sick, how are they at treating those who do get sick?
herr_bookman for a late Monday morning:When is the last time your pups were sick? What did they have?
To which I would like to add: How are they as a patient when they are sick? Or, for those who don't get sick, how are they at treating those who do get sick?
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Fairies can recover from lost limbs, apparently.
Speaking of that, millicanonically, I had shards of adamant embed itself embed itself in Amascut's right forearm after her fight with Apmeken. She was pissy about it since it interfered with her magic. She had Leeuni bite her arm off eventually.
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Katya: Again, ages - before she became Other. She's pragmatic around sick people - sick people will, in her world, by default, be human. And humans do tend to get sick, and all of them eventually die, so it's just... life? She can be sympathetic and helpful. If she wants to be.
Haymitch: If we're only counting 'sick because of disease' and not 'sick from the world's most horrific hangover', he hasn't been sick since his Games, the Capitol has seen to that. They're not losing one of their favorite toys over something like the flu. He... has absolutely no experience in his adult life being around sick people. No one gets close to him in Twelve, and Capitol folk don't bother to go through such natural things as sickness. They have medicine for that.
Glorfindel: ... See, my headcanon says the firstborn aren't terribly prone to getting sick. Other Tolkien-verse muns want to chime in? He's pretty good at dealing with it though, after chasing Elrond around for Ages.
Oswin: Maybe got sick a couple times as a kid, but she's been pretty good with her vaccinations as an adult, and it's the future, so. .... I could be evil and let some of those vaccinations start to wear off. >.> She's decent at dealing with sick people, due to training.
Clara: Caught last year's flu, it was horrid, she doesn't want to talk about it. She's one of those 'I shall soldier on until I really shouldn't've and now I'm going to hide in bed for a couple days with some tea and all my books go away' sort of people. Living with two slightly self-absorbed kiddos doesn't help.
Bones: Miri's planet, it was horrible, and Olga was mean afterwards. :D Seriously, it takes something like an alien disease to take him down a peg, because again, it's the future, there's medicine for these kinds of things. And he's a doctor, he's kind of expected to be good at treating the sick, it's a basic requirement.
Balthazar: Gets the local variant flu every now and again, had the usual run of illnesses as a child. He's the same as a patient as he is dealing with other people - rather impatient and ruthless about the whole process because it's wasting time on something he considers entirely stupid and dull.
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I also have to note that the other two pups who come to mind as having noteworthy illnesses are both cases of radiation sickness. Ellen's been through radiation poisoning twice, once for Moira Brown's research and once when she had to go and activate the purifier. That one should have killed her, but Fawkes dragged her out of the hot zone and jammed her full of Enclave experimental anti-rads on the spot; she then spent two weeks in a coma at the Citadel and several more weeks being treated with United Federation of Planets medicine in the Milliways infirmary. She did not like it much, especially since Vault 101 upbringing tends to emphasize getting off your duff as soon as physically possible and getting back to work after an illness, and rad poisoning doesn't really let you recover quickly even with UFP treatment.
And Stacker Pentecost has spoileriffic medical issues relating to the nuclear reactor that powered Coyote Tango.
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Helena has some occasional respiratory issues that stem from being in Victorian London, but they don't crop up much. Otherwise, she was a pretty healthy child. If chicken pox comes back to the bar, though, she might be screwed.
Fantine died of a combination of early nineteenth century France, illness, and malnutrition. I don't know why, but she absolutely insists in my head that she doesn't have an STD. Jury's out on if she's right or not.
Valentine, as part of the Battle School program started to be vaccinated against pretty much everything ever, but when they decided they didn't want her, they discontinued the vaccinations. She hasn't really caught anything yet in her continuity, so who knows.
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Zelgadiss: Has to be utterly run-down and wasted in order to run a risk of getting sick. With his chimeric body comes increased endurance, speed, magic-capability, and very likely immunity.
Sunshine: By canon, she doesn't get traditionally sick. Was gosh-awful sick as a small child, once, and none of the doctors could figure out what was wrong with her except lethargy, fatigue and extreme misery. The cause turns out to have been the complete lack of exposure to sunlight for about six months. She has been sick once in Milliways, and that was with IMDbFlu, and Rae thought herself to be a flighty, 1930s-era nightclub singer/aspiring starlet.
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In terms of treating others, he's... mediocre. He hasn't got a lot of nurturing instinct, and he's used to having a couple of medical students around to defer to in terms of diagnosis and treatment. But if you ask for something, he'll readily provide, and for a close friend he probably will think to make small gestures like bringing over a hot drink or whatever. He's no good at fussing over anyone, though, or entertaining a sick person with anything besides political discussions, reading aloud (probably from something political), or companionable silence.
Thor gets sick very rarely! He's not immune, although he's immune to most Earth stuff, but he's got a pretty robust constitution. Last time was probably the Asgardian equivalent of a cold or minor fever, and it was probably the Asgardian equivalent of years ago. He's also a terrible patient, because he's an impatient jock who's not used to physical limits; he want to be back up and doing things! And if he feels bad enough that he doesn't actually feel like doing things, then he's impatient about that.
If other people are sick, he will earnestly try to be helpful. He also has very little idea what it's like to be very sick and what's useful, so he's likely to be counterproductive as often as not, but he means well!
Clare doesn't get sick in the usual sense, although she's capable of driving herself to exhaustion. Recently in canon she spent a while taking aura-suppressing drugs for a job, though, and that made her feel kind of unwell -- it messed with the senses she uses most, and IIRC there are indications that it might make Claymores feel a little sick too. Anyway, she's used to ignoring her body, because whee learned dissociation. She's a terrible patient because, well, Claymores are trained (and to some extent required by their nature) to impose their will on their bodies no matter what. So she doesn't like to listen to its limits.
She has no idea what to do with a sick person.
Trowa, I dunno, a cold or something? He's pretty resilient, but not supernaturally so. He's actually a good patient! Uh, mostly. He will listen to and obey medical advice, and obey limits, and not give in to impatience... unless there's something really pressing to accomplish and he thinks he usefully can, in which case he'll politely agree to whatever a doctor says and then ignore it to do what he wants. But he was trained young to work in groups and that lying to yourself about your capabilities means other people suffer.
He's better than you'd think with sick people. He has medical training, and more compassion than you'd guess from his usual manner. But he won't indulge anybody's whining or self-pity or self-indulgent wallowing in their minor cold, or whatever. (Maybe his sister Cathy's. But: Cathy.) Bedside manner, yes; crackers and watching dumb movies with you, unlikely.
River... uh, it depends on how you define sick? Again, probably a cold or whatever, though she has ongoing medical issues anyway. She's a good patient about serious stuff, because she's very used to that, but she gets cranky about minor things sometimes.
She's very sympathetic when other people are sick, though, whether it's minor or not. She's probably my only one who will really be patient and gentle and willing to help out somebody sick for a long period. (The fact that River's used to a lot of medical problems and most of my others are used to being healthy and very active is not irrelevant, although it's also not the whole story.)
Regan, ditto ditto, although she's also on the far side of middle age so she's starting to get the kind of background low-level aches and complaints that age brings. She's a good patient, on the whole, although if she had to deal with major and very limiting illness she'd get impatient about it pretty quickly.
She's generally good with other patients. (And she has a husband who now has a lot of ongoing health problems from a demon attack that nearly killed him, thanks Raguel, so she'd better be! Not that they don't have the ability to hire staff etc too.) She doesn't have a ton of time to spare, between her work and Gabriel's stubborn tendency to run himself into the ground, but what she could spare she'd be kind with.
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Charles is a fairly good patient and I can imagine him getting sick once or twice in Oxford when something was going around. I have a small mental canon that mutants are all a little stronger immune system wise so they don't get sick as much. I can imagine him curling up with a book and tea with some pouting. He would be good to the point of annoying in terms of taking care of someone else because he worries and he would constantly know what you're thinking and thus need. I imagine Raven gets sick of him trying to help the few times she's ever been sick.
Moist hasn't been sick in a while, he can't afford to be, but if he had the time for it, he would enjoy being a patient and having someone else take care of him. He would be awful at looking after someone unless he was going to get something from them.
William last was sick I think last year when he worked far too hard and ended up with a fever. He's not a good patient because he has an ongoing list of what has to be done in his head. Though he is good at taking care of people who are sick since he's been looking after his brother for most of his life and his father too.
Sameth hasn't been sick since canon but when he was sick, he was happy to be in bed and be looked after. Though he wasn't able to do that very long as Ellimere will usually find him and help him. I think he's okay at looking after someone else, but probably not great since he tends to get lost in his head.
Jane isn't a very good patient, she would use being sick as an excuse to read but would get impatient quickly. She'd do a better job of taking care of someone else.
Demeter is a goddess and hasn't really been sick in a long time, but she's amazing at taking care of someone who is sick.
Tumnus probably hasn't been sick for a while, I think it takes a lot to make a Faun truly ill, but he's not the best patient. He's not used to being looked after so I think he would keep trying to get up and do things. He would be better at looking out for someone who's sick.
The Pirate King would be an awful patient because he'd be impatient to get going again and whiny. He would also be horrible at taking care of someone who's sick, he would make Ruth deal with them.
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Mark had the flu. Once. When he was four or five. He got to stay home from school; his mom made him grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup; and it prompted the first of several discussions between Nolan and Debbie about Mark getting super-powers. He was never sick again.
Canonically, Mark cannot get sick with terrestrial diseases. The next time he gets sick, in canon, he will be too busy trying to not die from a bioweapon to be a bad patient.