DE: An apple a day

[bjornwilde]

Inspired by Selina seeking Guppy out for vaccinations and my own self getting a flu shot today, how well does your character take care of their health? Are the more reactionary (i.e. they'll go to a doctor or care for themselves when sick or injured) or proactive (i.e. they will do yearly physicals, eat well, and do other preventative things to keep themselves health)?

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[camwyn]

Stacker takes his medication religiously and does everything in his power to keep his medical condition sufficiently under control that nobody else knows about it. I have no doubt that this includes diet and exercise.

Santo probably sees a doctor once a year, but he's more of the religiously-exercising school of keeping healthy.

Medic is pretty good about taking care of himself, largely because he doesn't trust other doctors not to screw it up.

Edward Kenway's idea of taking care of his health is washing out wounds with wine or something similar before they fester and not frequenting prostitutes because they might have the pox. Pirate of 1715, hello.

Varric usually relies on his robust dwarven constitution to keep himself in good health. While there are doctors in Kirkwall, they're equally likely to rely on potions and magic as they are on pharmacologically active herbs, and some of that stuff just doesn't work on dwarves. So why waste the coin?

Gordon gets checked out by someone who at least has medic training if not a full doctor about twice a year, just in case. There are too many people depending on him to do less. He is also very good at seeing to his own first aid needs.

Shephard is a horrible, horrible patient and does not see a doctor nearly as often as he ought; he is often of the 'rub some dirt on it and walk it off' school of thought regarding minor to moderately horrific injuries rather than bothering a doctor type. If there's a medic in his direct line of sight when he gets hurt or sick he will probably call them over but only if it's something he can't patch up himself.

Ellen... does what she can to stay healthy but honestly, nine-tenths of all Wasteland doctors are jerkasses or unpleasant robots so medical care mostly consists of what you can do to yourself. Fortunately her father was a doctor and taught her to read using his medical texts as a starting point, so she has a decent amount of knowledge to work from.

[bjornwilde]

Selina takes active care of herself. She knows that if she gets sick or hurt, she loses her edge and bad things will happen to her.

Rand is fae, your argument is invalid. Not that fae don't get sick, mind you, it just tends be caused by poison or heart break rather than things like germes.

Ethan comes from an era where you go to the doctor only when you are harmed. There are some medicines that claim health benefits, but these tend to be nothing more than dyed water at best, or spiked with cocaine and other drugs at worst.

Andrea avoids doctors and medical things since it'd be too great a risk to her secret. As such, she mostly takes care of herself. Of course with Lyc-V, she doesn't need to worry about getting sick or staying injured for long.

Quin enjoys the benefits of high tech medicine and maintains himself much like he did as a jedi.

[i_am_your_host]

The Master of Ceremonies self-medicates.

[ceitfianna]

Very apt question as there's an awful cold going around my family.

Will tends to take care of himself when he's hurt. Friends in Milliways have done some preventive stuff with him but he's not of a time when that was the norm.

Charles exercises regularly, does all his various check ups, bugs Raven to do hers and tries to eat well and not drink too much. I think it got trained into him at a young age that you take care of yourself and he's naturally active.

Quentin is Fae, would be confused if he got sick but he does exercise as part of his normal routine though he eats everything and he does preventive stuff for Toby like making sure she's fed. The one time he was badly hurt, he was shot in the shoulder, he was at a loss of what to do.

Moist sort of does preventive, medicine on his world is weird, but he can't afford to get sick and he doesn't seem to according to canon.

William is reactive for himself and preventive for his brother and everyone he knows. Since Mark has been very ill for most of his life, he's tuned into certain kinds of trouble and tends to hover. For himself, he goes until he can't and then has to rest as he's not a good patient.

Sameth hides in bed when he's sick and I think does the preventive stuff mainly because people tell him to.

Ivan is all about preventive as he needs to be at his best and the Barryaran military keeps their soldiers in good form. As he says in canon, yes, he works at a desk but its a Barrayaran desk.

Jane doesn't do a huge amount, she walks but preventive medicine isn't huge yet in her time.

Demeter is a goddess and doesn't count.

Tumnus doesn't do a lot, if he feels himself getting sick, he makes tea and stays in bed, that's about it.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Viltrumites do not get sick. Any diseases powerful enough to affect their immune systems (and there are a few in the Kirkman-verse) will simply kill them, generally with a great deal of pain and maximum contagion. Predictably, this sort of disease would depopulate the Earth, if it found itself there. That obviously hasn't happened. Yet.

As a result, Mark has been sick once, at the wee age of five, for about 24 hours. He doesn't do much more than the average teenager to watch his health, and when not at home, his diet is pretty atrocious. Lots of sugar, caffeine, and processed foods. He does like fruits and veggies, with the exception of spinach (mostly because Debbie Grayson likes it steamed and the texture makes Mark gag). But he does little or nothing to monitor his diet or watch his health.

[genarti]

Thor: Heh. Thor is of the "I'm tough, I'm fine!" school of warrioring unless he's actively bleeding all over everything (and sometimes even then, depending on the situation and the company). On the rare occasions he gets a cold or something, he's not whiny, but he is sort of inwardly sulky -- damn it, body, you're letting him down here! In terms of preventative medicine, he's not that diligent, but neither does he refuse to go in for the Asgardian equivalent of a physical if his mom or someone else tells him he should.

Enjolras's best friend was a medical student, and so is at least one other good friend (hi Joly!). That said, a medical student in the 1830s, when the earnest well-intentioned best of medicine involved things like "here, coat your tongue with this tincture of mercury" and "when in doubt, leeches!" and "seriously we have NO IDEA about this, hot foods might help?", so, you know. But the flip side of this is you didn't want to write off a chest cold or an injury or anything, so if Enjolras actually feels sick, he will absolutely go to a doctor or friend to check it out.

In terms of taking care of himself... uh. He could be way worse; most of his habits are pretty healthy, he's an athletic guy, and he does generally listen to what friends advise. But he also tends to forget about sleep and eating when he's busy or preoccupied, which is a lot of the time. And he definitely drinks way too much caffeine, not that he's aware of that as an issue anyway.

...I was going to reply for my others and then work happened, and I never got to it. More later unless I forget, then!

[merryeccentricities]

Oh, *gad*. Big old It's Complicated, because, basically, what Gen says. Joly's definitely Concerned About Health, and he takes the best care he can of himself (and anyone else who'll let him) that he can-- stays warm and out of the wet, eats something like actual food when he can, cleans injuries the best he can, and tries to counteract the more obviously horrible medical dogma of the time... but it's a time when diluting water with wine is actually a healthy move, opium is a useful and recreational drug, and unrefrigerated oysters in Paris in summer were a perfectly standard item and not something that would get a restaurant closed down by the nonexistent health department. So yeah, very preventative and health aware!...and it wasn't much help, even not counting the "no protection from bullets" thing.

He's currently catching up on medical studies and experiencing a whole lotta Fridge Horror about his life. Also: trying to figure out what, if any, care a dead person needs to take of their corporeal(???) form.

[filemyclaim]

Clementine: Fruit cleanses and yoga combined with Twinkies, pot, and lots of sex. IDEK.

Dixie: She treats her body like a temple. Or tries to.

Pinkie: Pinkie does aerobics. And swallows cakes whole.

Juliet: Jogging, hiking, biking, dance and aerobics, plus a good diet.

Eponine: *looks at eponine. Laughs*