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The book is action adventure--fiction
If you are familiar with remote viewing out of body experience, and programs such as that, this is that in a round-a-bout way.
Some of it begins at Fort Mead, but not this part, it occurs in and around the Hackensack, NJ area.
If you know about the technique of remote viewers, and of the series Psi Op or even the characters in the Matrix, you will get a handle on one of my characters ... that need your help. Or ... she dies.
Some info on Angel…one of the characters
'Angel' Angela Silverfeather is of Native American decent, and in the mid twenties age wise. She has no family that she can remember anyway however; she has special talents in the astral arena ... the ether ... out of your body experience etc
There was a man that she called grandfather, but she does not know if he is a relative or a tribal elder.
He has crossed over (died) and left her several plots of land that the government never got their hands on, and several occupy working silver mines.
I need to know what one could do to save someone in this condition.
They cannot go to the hospital call a doctor or an emergency unit.
The need to do it with only the training a cop would receive and his mother has only the observation skills from voluntary work in a hospital.
What would they need, and what would they do?
Oh, and Spock, is the nickname Cliff's (Spock's) brother gave him:)
Rough non-edited work
A Rough unedited passage from my novel ... Star Light Star Bright
Driving carefully, out of the city, looping several times around different city blocks, and making sure they were not followed, Frank broke the silence.
"Mom. I cannot go into specifics, but it is far to dangerous for you to stay home, and when Major Bean makes contact I will bring him up to date. Now, here is the other part. Do you remember the girl Angel that went missing at the Institute, the one Spock replaced as number one?"
"I seem to recall that yes, I remember," Barb said not following where Frank was going with this.
"Angel has been helping us ... out there MOM, in the heavens as you like to say. She left her body in a deep meditative state. She made a slow saline drip for nourishment and hydration before rolling out."
"Well mom, she senses her body is dying and she cannot get it back in physical control. She needs outside physical help. She is back in her body but so weak she cannot move physically.
If she dies, she will move on past this space and time, and she is not ready. We are not ready ... we need her."
"We have to save her mom, and I hope that we are not too late, he said while pulling in the driveway of a small cottage in Lyndhurst.
The pair went to the door; Cliff retrieved the key where Angel had hid it.
The odor in the home was not pretty. They hurried in the back bedroom and there, on her bed laid an emaciated Angel--the IV drip exhausted, Frank checked her carotid artery, for life.
"She's alive mom, we have to act quick."
"My God Frank I am not a doctor. Not even a nurse. She needs a hospital now," Barbara said pulling out her new throw away cell phone.
Frank was already busy looking for things they might need.
“We can’t Mom. The institute has all of their bases covered, and then some. We are dealing with Dad’s type of superiors here Mom, they rarely leave loose screws.”
Help would be appreciated so I can move forward.
 
I don't understand.... What is supposed to be wrong with the person that needs saving?
 
Novel--save Angel

Thanks Sublime, for replying to my post. I thought that there would be more interest here.
My sister is a nurse of over thirty years, and she gave me her input, however I need the minds of other resourceful medical practitioners, with perhaps a Mac Gyver mind-set.
Angel has zero hydration and nutrition. Her saline drip, depleted five days ago.
On the other hand, fill in the blanks ... i.e. ... saline stopped four days ago etc
Thanks again,
Dave
 
Sometimes, it takes more than 24 hours for members to decide to post on a topic.
 
Uh... I don't get it. I could hardly make it through all that writing.

Saline is just water with .09% sodium Chloride.

That will hydrate her but so will drinking a glass of water?

It wouldn't provide nourishment though?
 
Uh... I don't get it. I could hardly make it through all that writing.

Saline is just water with .09% sodium Chloride.

That will hydrate her but so will drinking a glass of water?

It wouldn't provide nourishment though?

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Okay, if you have seen the movie the MATRIX, you can grasp the concept.
This scenario is like that, and not like that.
Angel's non-physical body has excited her physical, sleeping body if you will.
Angel has no assistants to monitor her [physical body] when she was out, and she has been gone longer then had planned.
Her [physical body] is shutting down, and even though she, her [nonphysical] self, is back in its vessel [body]. Angel is too weak to move, so she cannot sip water ... She is unconscious...
I appreciate all suggestions, and this IS my first, rough, unedited draft. I am only breaching forty thousand of perhaps a ninety to one hundred thousand word novel.
All wilderness and mountain rescue EMT, welcome.
 
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That's not something prehospital providers do, if you're looking for accuracy. If the person is unconscious, and wouldn't regain consciousness for whatever reason (out of body), and you want them to be "fed" through an IV, their source of nutrition would have to come from TPN (Total parenteral nutrition). That isn't something that you see prehospital personnel carry or initiate. Saline will rehydrate to an extent, but provide zero nutrition.
 
That's not something prehospital providers do, if you're looking for accuracy. If the person is unconscious, and wouldn't regain consciousness for whatever reason (out of body), and you want them to be "fed" through an IV, their source of nutrition would have to come from TPN (Total parenteral nutrition). That isn't something that you see prehospital personnel carry or initiate. Saline will rehydrate to an extent, but provide zero nutrition.
>>> Angel was not planning to be away for as long as she was. Therefore, a saline drip provided her body with fluids which she cannot do without as long as food.
So far I have received information from 2 RN's directing ...an enema tube, plastic funnel, and baby food [pureed meats, veggies, fruits], electrolyte drink [like Gatorade], maybe protein powders The tube ... measure ear to mouth, then mouth to stomach-mark with adhesive tape i.e. ear to mouth would be taped on face during intermissions.
Mix with water to a consistency--prune juicy or lighter.
The directions go on with what to look for, and windpipe = wrong path etc.
Small amounts flush after every use etc.
The nurse said it is not as EASY AS IT IS SHOWN ON television:)
I agree, but am learning.
 
So is your cop (you referenced above) is just going to happen to have an NG tube and know how to put one in and use/maintain it?
 
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So is your cop (you referenced above) just going to happen to have an NG tube and know how to put one in and use/maintain it?

maybe he went to EMT school :lol:;)
 
We, as a group, always complain when Hollywierd and other media groups get our job wrong. Here is a chance to correct that by providing good, correct input.
 
We, as a group, always complain when Hollywierd and other media groups get our job wrong. Here is a chance to correct that by providing good, correct input.

correction sent by PM
 
As a Wilderness EMT:

There is nothing I can do about dehydration in an unresponsive pt. If she were to become responsive and able to maintain her own airway/swallow I could then giver her water but otherwise all I can do is rapidly evac. It would have to be at least an AEMT in order for IV therapy to be started.

If I just came up to her though, I would give oral glucose, even though she is unresponsive (This is one area where WEMTs and Urban EMTs do differ). That wouldn't do much though for the dehydration problem.
 
There are drugstores present for various sufficing tools.

Thanks again Veneficus, I can see you are a creative thinker.
 
Last chance to stop the snarkiness in this thread or the dancing lock will make an appearance.
 
There are drugstores present for various sufficing tools.

Thanks again Veneficus, I can see you are a creative thinker.

Here are some ideas that might make this feasible.

Cop could have access hospital supplies (and maybe a pharmacy) where he could then obtain IV TPN (total parenteral nutrition). He could perform the procedure correctly after perhaps watching an instructional video online or reading a medical textbook.

He would also need IV supplies like a catheter and tubing. This could be learned through an online video or perhaps he's seen it done before, or maybe he has military background that allowed him to practice some medical skills.
 
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Here are some ideas that might make this feasible.

Cop could have access hospital supplies (and maybe a pharmacy) where he could then obtain IV TPN (total parenteral nutrition). He could perform the procedure correctly after perhaps watching an instructional video online or reading a medical textbook.

He would also need IV supplies like a catheter and tubing. This could be learned through an online video or perhaps he's seen it done before, or maybe he has military background that allowed him to practice some medical skills.

or simpler still since there was already a Iv established they could just cut the top of the bag open and add new liquid,
 
Wait! Can't they feed via IV, otherwise how do they keep coma patients alive?

Just asking :unsure:
 
Wait! Can't they feed via IV, otherwise how do they keep coma patients alive?

Just asking :unsure:

IV feeding (parenteral nutrition) is one way to do it. However, most comatose patients are fed via some sort of feeding tube (nasogastric, nasoduodenal, etc.) unless there is some sort of GI complication or obstruction that would prevent normal digestion.
 
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