Brian double checked her work. "It looks good so far," he said. "But I doubt you've used this spell. Watch. Its one Robert developed out of necessity years ago." He cast the spell, and it drew out little pieces that sprang up out of the incision area gathering into a sort of a swirling mist of specks, chips, dust, shards, and such. He picked up the bowl and put it under the swirling mist and the mist dropped into the bowl.
"Muggles have to irrigate an area like this with all sorts of saline and hope they got it all," Brian said. "We can know we got it all. This summons all bone debris and deposits it into the drainage bowl. Makes the risk of infection and complication far, far less." He double checked the wound to the lung and cast a spell sealing the lung again and watched and listened and monitored carefully to be sure that it was going to actually seal and that the respiratory distress stopped. Robert soon began to breathe easier. When that happened, Brian checked the setting of the ribs. For most people it would have been more than sufficient, but Brian knew how overly meticulous Robert always was about fractures and perfect alignment. It was tricky with the last rib because of the splintering of part of the rib, but with a bit of fine tuning, he got all the rib pieces aligned perfectly. "Nice work," he told Jess. "Let's close." He closed the wound, except for a tiny opening less than half an inch, and didn't leave a single scar. Robert had taught Brian and Khaat how to heal wounds without the slightest evidence that it had ever been there. They had run across the odd, macho sort of thinker that beleived that a few scars made them look tough and had asked them to leave their scars rather than healing it entirely properly.
"The opening is to allow just a bit of seepage because of how severe the wound was. Because of how severe the wound was, it will cause the tissue to swell, and as the swelling reduces, the wound will drain serous fluid. I dont' know if Robert has talked to you about serous fluid, but it is a watery fluid that the body uses to deliver the healing chemicals the body needs to promote a higher healing energy to that injured part of the body. When it is no longer needed, we need it to drain off. It will develop fluid for several hours. If we were doing this in a muggle way, it might drain up to two weeks. This way, by morning, I can finish closing this. But that also means that for the rest of today and during the night we will have to change the dressing often because it will be very wet and messy--much more so than a muggle dressing. We'd best check it every couple of hours until it completely stops draining. " He addressed the huge burn and the even bigger bruise, packed the wound very heavily and taped it and then splinted the ribs. "Once the drain is closed tomorrow, I'll bind the ribs with a full sized rib binder to keep them in place. Once we do that, he'll breathe better and be far more comfortable and in less pain. At least this was, we only need to try to keep him quiet until then. Fortunately, or unfortunately for us, he feels like hell. He'll be pretty cooperative. Alright. I'm going to wake him up now. Then we'll clean up the mess." He laid his hand on Robert's forehead and silently cast the spell to wake him. Robert woke, trying to take a deeper breath, and it made him cough. His hand flew to the broken ribs.
"You really, really stink at pain relief," he grimaced and managed, in a great deal of pain.
"You didn't need pain relief. You were unconscious," Brian said, laying his hand back on his head to draw of the pain. Brian felt that the pain was immense. He just continued to draw it off steadily and rapidly, as rapidly as he could. In fact, he was drawing it off so deeply and so quickly, it was making Brian very dizzy. If Robert had truly known how Brian was making him comfortable, Brian knew Robert would not be pleased, but Robert was exhausted from all the events of the last day or so and once he had a reason to be comfortable, he slipped into a deep sleep, finally pain free. Brian didnt move, waiting for the room to stop spinning.
"Double check him, Jess," Brian said. "I need a minute and then I'll clean up the mess. I didnt exactly follow all his rules. And once I do that, I'll leave you with him, and I'll go first and geet a pain relief potion that he uses as last resort. It's liable to keep him sedated, but I see little choice. Trust me, its just far too costly to either of us to try to draw it off for him. I just did it, and I'm probably going to need at least a triple strength restorative tea to feel one bit better. I don't want you trying it. But, since we know that it will wipe us entirely off our feet to draw off his pain, we know how much pain he's in and we know that potion is our only choice. He would not argue with that. Jess, if I can't recover as quickly as I'd like, I'll send you to the potions lab to get the potion, but I'll have to tell you where it is and what to look for. He keeps it well hidden and secured because it can be quite lethal if it is misused. We need to be sure that nobody touches it but an experienced healer. If the kids were to get it, and the would be attracted to it because it tastes sweet--like pure honey. They would like the taste. But it would surely kill them as swiftly and deadly as any other potion.
"Once we get Robert settled, I'd really like to stay with Khaat and I'll try to check on Robert--unless you want to check on him. He's going to sleep. We'll get him into bed, and I doubt we'll have any difficulty with him. When he's hurt like this, he normally stays put if he knows that we have everything else under control. Thats not to say that he doesn't want to run things from his bed. He does that exceptionally well. Kate can be of immense help when it comes to looking after Khaat and Robert both. I dont know how Cassidy is at that but we do need to keep Abbey and Dakota from jumping up on their grandpa for the next couple of weeks at least. And they love nothing more than to run and jump up on him and cuddle with him. We're goin to have to get them to cuddle on the other side. I'm going to leave the rest of you in charge of all the kids If thats ok with you? I'll do my best to let Abbey, in particular, know that Mama and Grandpa are alright but if she's going to be a Lupin, she'd better just get adjusted to this scrapes and bumps stuff now. Its just part of being a Lupin, I think.
"Oh, and one more thing, I don't want you burning the candle at both ends for these two. I am very experienced at being up all night, and I do it pretty well. So is Kate. Angus can too if he has to. I need one of us healers always up to full power for at least the next three days or so. So that means that I really need you to get impeccable nutrition, good exercise without overdoing it or hurting yourself, a full nights sleep, and some fun and stress relief so that your energies are at their full power. Just in case mine might not be. I will do my
best, but what I'm saying is that, Jess, I really need your help. With Khaat and Robert out of commission, I have no one else to rely on but you. Make sure the others know that we may well need them to step in with the kids. And we will surely have to call either Owens in Paris or Lee in Washington DC to provide us with more security until we get ourselves back up in numbers and strength.
"I'm going to talk to Angus about making sure that instead of that little snack he serves between dinner in the evenings and bedtime that what he serves is something that is loaded with nutrition and energy. He'll know what I mean. And if there is anybody that wouldnt' eat that little mini meal, we need to not tell them that it is designed to refuel their energy. We do have one or two that can be a bit sticky about taking any sort of potion. But I have to keep us up and running. Now--that is a massive amount of instruction. I'm not sure I'd have all that. Do you have any questions at all? And did I miss anything?"
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