#somehowunbroken

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU - Comicverse Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd Additional Tags: Community: queer_fest Summary:

Authour: ariadne83, @somehowunbroken

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Tim Drake & Damian Wayne)

Year: 2014

Rating: Gen

Warnings: None

Summary:

Damian gets emotion-pollened. Tim isn't happy about it.

Submitted by @tuesdayisfordancing

Submitter's comment:

Hey there! So you need a critical illness as a side effect of a heart attack, huh? Well, let’s get this party started!

I’m going to give you a path that this character could go down, but not the one true only path this could happen. So keep in mind that things like pulmonary emboli, surgical site infections, internal bleeding, and  much more can keep your character in the hospital for months after surgery.

First, a great reason to be out of touch would be if he had to be intubated for any reason. Putting a breathing tube down someone’s throat is a pretty good way to render them ineffective, especially because often times these patients are sedated, at least at first.

Now then. Your character has a heart attack. Boom. First step is (usually) calling 911.

Paramedics will arrive, perform an EKG, and diagnose something called a STEMI (ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction; the kind of heart attack you can see with an EKG. Others require bloodwork to be sure; this is someone whose MI is BLATANT.)

He might be cool to the touch, pale, sweaty, and have his fist clenched over his chest -- this is an actual thing patients do. He may be convinced he’s going to die.

He’s right, but only temporarily.

Okay. So he’s having his STEMI. A particular kind of STEMI, an inferior wall MI, will produced EKG changes. (If you want some medspeak, have the medics give a notification: “I have 4-mm tombstone elevations in II, III and AvF” sounds smart, adding “... with a 2-mm elevation in V4R” sounds SUPER smart and will win you points with medical readers, trust me on this.)

He’ll be given aspirin, but not a medication called nitroglycerine, because Reasons(TM) . Medics may also give him an IV and some fluid, maybe 500mL.

Next he will arrive at the hospital. He may stop in the ER for a quick look by the ER doc and a few hundred mg of Plavix (clopidogrel). After that he’ll be brought very quickly to what’s called the cath lab, or cardiac catheterization lab. This is where your character will undergo catheterization. Namely, they’ll thread a catheter in through his groin up to his heart and try to clear the blockage by placing stents in his heart.

But before they can do that, they’ll take a look at his arteries by injecting contrast dye to see what’s blocked and what isn’t.

This is where your character goes from cath lab patient to surgical patient. If he has 3 or more vessels that are occluded by plaque -- triple vessel disease -- he’ll be going for a CABG instead (a coronary artery bypass graft, AKA a “bypass” or CABG, pronounced “cabbage”). In fact, he’s getting 3 of them.

Now, mind you, his blood pressure may continue to deteriorate all this while, because both sides of his heart are involved in the heart attack. He will be a very sick man by the time we’re done with him.

So next he’s brought to the OR, likely with some kind of pressor (dopamine, norepinephrine) hanging now to keep his blood pressure up. He’ll be anesthetized and intubated (breathing tube placed) in the OR.

And as they try to perform the coronary bypass, with his chest open on the table, he’s going to have a cardiac arrest.

Cardiac massage (aka “squeezing the heart to make it pump, literally, just grab it and squeeze”) will be done. If it’s a shockable rhythm, yes, they’ll apply paddles directly to the heart and shock it.

Anyway, let’s say they get the triple bypass done. Let’s say he lives. Let’s say he doesn’t even have massive damage to his heart.

He may still have trouble weaning off the ventilator. He may have developed some edema (fluid) in his lungs, and he may simply not be able to come off the vent right away. It may take a few days to get his pressures under control, to get him perfusing everything well again.

Meanwhile, he’ll be sedated, in a lot of pain, and unable to get up (because he’s had his chest opened up).

In the long term, he may be a relatively healthy man. Years down the road he may be able to exercise well, play poker with his friends, or volunteer at the shelter. But in the first few weeks after his surgery he’s going to have limited exercise tolerance and a lot of medication. He’s going to have some diet changes, some exercise changes, and he’s going to follow up with his cardiologist on a regular basis.

But he can live, and live well, and actually live long, after this event.

I hope this fulfills your requirements, and that others have learned from it too!

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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Summary: Jason's doing it for the cash, or so he tells himself. [Written for the Fluff Week challenge on tumblr.]

Opinion: The only thing I can say about this is how undeniably beautifully written this is. I love the characterization. I love the flow. I love how the author managed to bring life to each and every character and made them speak, made them act, made them unique though written by one voice. It’s basically the theater Jason but Jason!Red Hood. I’m having a lot of feels for this and how it presented the batfam. It’s beautiful and you all should read this. I had a hard time not squealing at the fluff but also, I had to clench my fist to my chest at certain points because - feels!!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd Characters: Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson Additional Tags: Food Network AU, Ridiculous Series: Part 1 of Food Network AU Summary:

"I hate him."

Dick snorts from his seat on the sofa. "You can't hate him, Jay, you've never even met him."

Authour: somehowunbroken

Subfandom: Batman

Media: All Media Types

Relationships: Shippy (Jason Todd/Tim Drake-centric)

Year: 2014

Rating: Teen

Warnings: None

Summary:

"I hate him." Dick snorts from his seat on the sofa. "You can't hate him, Jay, you've never even met him." "I can and I do," Jason insists, slapping the magazine he's been holding down onto the counter. "Food & Wine thinks he's better than me! Look!"

Submitted by @kiragecko

Submitter's comment:

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd Characters: Jason Todd, Talia al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, OFC, OMC Summary: