Things that go whump in the night

ʃ: fingers running through sweaty hair

"Are you okay?" or "You're burning up." // temperature check with a hand to forehead or with a thermometer // feverish nightmares or feverish confessions // stoic or emotionally labile // Caught in the rain or Caught in a blizzard // field medicine or hospital // thermometer: oral or axillary (armpit) // thermometer: temporal (forehead) or tympanic (ear) // delirium or passing out // assisted to bed or carried to bed // slurred speech or staggering steps // pallid face or fever flushed cheeks // sleeping in bed or sleeping on the couch // multiple sick characters or multiple caregiving characters // deep sleep or can't rest // persistent cough or lost voice // spoon feeding or helping sick character to clean up // "I'm not sick" or "I don't feel so well" // intentional temperature taking or accidental fever reveal // wrapped in blankets or dunked in a cool bath // giving soup or giving meds // surprised by illness or feels it coming on // sick at home or sick at an important event

"Are you okay?" or "You're burning up." // temperature check with a hand to forehead or with a thermometer // feverish nightmares or feverish confessions // stoic or emotionally labile // Caught in the rain or Caught in a blizzard // field medicine or hospital // thermometer: oral or axillary (armpit) // thermometer: temporal (forehead) or tympanic (ear) // delirium or passing out // assisted to bed or carried to bed // slurred speech or staggering steps // pallid face or fever flushed cheeks // sleeping in bed or sleeping on the couch // multiple sick characters or multiple caregiving characters // deep sleep or can't rest // persistent cough or lost voice // spoon feeding or helping sick character to clean up // "I'm not sick" or "I don't feel so well" // intentional temperature taking or accidental fever reveal // wrapped in blankets or dunked in a cool bath // giving soup or giving meds // surprised by illness or feels it coming on // sick at home or sick at an important event

"Are you okay?" or "You're burning up." // temperature check with a hand to forehead or with a thermometer (aagh no wrong answer here really but I do like when I can know the number and it's good and high) // feverish nightmares or feverish confessions // stoic or emotionally labile // Caught in the rain or Caught in a blizzard // field medicine or hospital // thermometer: oral or axillary (armpit) // thermometer: temporal (forehead) or tympanic (ear) // delirium or passing out // assisted to bed or carried to bed (aaagh again! it really depends but I do love a scoop) // slurred speech or staggering steps // pallid face or fever flushed cheeks // sleeping in bed or sleeping on the couch // multiple sick characters or multiple caregiving characters // deep sleep or can't rest ( both together really, I'm mean like that >:) ) // persistent cough or lost voice // spoon feeding or helping sick character to clean up (oh evil, EVIL to make me choose! /lh gonna go with spoon-feeding BUT ALSO FUN FACT: Have you ever heard of an invalid feeder? If not you should check it out, very whumpy I should really make a post about them!) // "I'm not sick" or "I don't feel so well" // intentional temperature taking or accidental fever reveal (hrmmmm mean to meeeee they're both so good) // wrapped in blankets or dunked in a cool bath (frankly I like to bundle them and then do the cold compress or wiping their face with the damp cloth type thing) // giving soup or giving meds // surprised by illness or feels it coming on // sick at home or sick at an important event

And finally: How does the spent blood exit their bodies (aka every kindergartner's favorite question: How Do They Poop?) Do they just cry it out and they sometimes do it as a normal bodily function off-camera? Does it literally all go into tissue repair so there's no waste? Is it like birds where it's all liquid? Do they pee it out? Sweat it out? Throw it up? Release a fine mist? (dramatic vampire fog anyone?). Can they get blood "constipation" with a buildup of waste product blood that doesn't have any more nutrients for them?