"Steven Gould - Jumper 02 - Reflex" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gould Stephen Jay)

Something wasn't right.

Davy was sure of it but he couldn't put his finger on it.

There was light on the other side of his eyelids. He knew he should get upтАФMillie got pissed if
he spent all day in bedтАФbut he couldn't even make himself open his eyes, much less sit up. Maybe
it's a virus. Maybe I just don't want to get into the having-children argument again.

Millie must've been listening to something on the television or the radio. A distant voice, deep,
male, said, "Uh, oh, that looks like an arousal pattern."

"Where?" A tenor, or was it an alto?

"That K complex... and those theta waves are increasing in amplitude."
 "Hit him with some more fentanyl IV. Then increase the drip on the fentanyl/midazolam."
Definitely an alto, a woman.

He felt something cold in his arm and thought it odd that it should be in his arm rather than on it
and then he went back to sleep.



The TV was on again. It sounded like some sort of daytime hospital soap. "тАФan infection?"

"Probably. Either from the IV or the catheter or when we intubated himтАФsomething from the
sinuses. You can't keep someone sedated this long without depressing their immune system. I've
started him on Zyvox and Synercid, and we're working him up with blood cultures, UA, and chest
film for now." A man.

"DammitтАФthe surgery's scheduled for tonight." The woman from before, the alto.

"Well, you open him like thisтАФ"

"I know, I know. It's just that the surgical team is not in on it. Getting them together was...
difficult." She paused. "We'll abort if his temp doesn't drop below ninety-nine five before seventeen
hundred. What's his white blood cell count?"

"Fifteen five. There's some thrombocytopenia and his iron's down."

"Well, he's fighting it. Hey, those theta waves are awfully sharp. What's the fentanyl/midazolam
drip? That high?"

"You can't leave him on it for days and not expect some tolerance increase."

"Well, we can't have him waking up, either. Bump it. Hopefully we can take him off it in a couple
of days."

"Okay, I'm increasing it to three hundred."