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Beet Pulp Soup
Oct. 3rd, 2016 11:40 pmPrincess Cadence, Shining Armor arrived in time for lunch with my niece in tow. The Fledgling's Forbearance spell is holding well, and although she was crawling about everywhere and getting into anything she could reach, she didn't blow any holes into the castle or shatter it with a hyper-sonic screech. She did keep my brother very occupied. I had gone with Spike to the bazaar yesterday to pick up some fresh produce and today Spike cooked up a sumptuous lunch for our guests. I was going to decorate the dining room and set the table but Starlight Glimmer beat me to it. I showed Cadence, Shining and Flurry Heart around while they put the food on the table, then we went down to eat.
We didn't really get into talking about my adventurous reading ordeal until after lunch and after Flurry Heart had been trotted off to her nap. They had galloped straight to the Crystal Empire Medical Center when Moondancer had told them what had happened. They found me just after I had been admitted into Emergency and I was getting rushed to Trauma.
Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer were there filling in the admission paperwork. By the time I had been carted to the Medical Center, I was sweating profusely while shaking and shivering. I remember that my ears and feet were cold and being told that my gums were turning blue. I was also showing signs of confusion. I don't remember arriving at the Medical Center. Moondancer, Princess Cadence and my brother sat down with Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer and waited for news of my recovery.
An hour or so later an intern came to see them. She said that at first my pulse was rapid and weak and that I was breathing in short shallow breaths. I had lost consciousness shortly after that. I had been administered oxygen while being rehydrated with large volumes of an intravenous salt solution. They gave me something to combat stress induced muscle degradation, and vitamin E. I was still in Critical Care, but I was doing better. They allowed my friends and family to stay with me while I slept, but only one at a time. Moondancer had to return to Canterlot and Sunburst went home, the rest took turns keeping a vigil overnight and into the next morning.
I apparently woke up a few times that night but did not recognize Cadence, Shining or Starlight Glimmer, who were there by turn at my bedside. I remember none of this. I had much improved by morning. I was sleeping peacefully and when I did wake up, there was beet pulp soup laced with fresh raw spinach and soothing herbs for me to eat. I could smell the chamomile. Chamomile is mildly toxic. There was probably valerian in there too. I was moved to sub-acute care later that morning for observation. I was discharged the next morning and Starlight took me home.
Flurry Heart awoke from her nap (we could hear her babbling in the next room) and Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, satisfied that I wasn't going to keel over, made me promise to be careful with strange books, and packed up Flurry Heart to leave for the Crystal Empire. I walked with them to the train station where their locomotive was waiting for them. They don't travel by pegasus-drawn chariot like Princess Luna and Princess Celestia.
So they left. So soon. Maybe we could go camping some time. When Flurry Heart is older.
We didn't really get into talking about my adventurous reading ordeal until after lunch and after Flurry Heart had been trotted off to her nap. They had galloped straight to the Crystal Empire Medical Center when Moondancer had told them what had happened. They found me just after I had been admitted into Emergency and I was getting rushed to Trauma.
Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer were there filling in the admission paperwork. By the time I had been carted to the Medical Center, I was sweating profusely while shaking and shivering. I remember that my ears and feet were cold and being told that my gums were turning blue. I was also showing signs of confusion. I don't remember arriving at the Medical Center. Moondancer, Princess Cadence and my brother sat down with Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer and waited for news of my recovery.
An hour or so later an intern came to see them. She said that at first my pulse was rapid and weak and that I was breathing in short shallow breaths. I had lost consciousness shortly after that. I had been administered oxygen while being rehydrated with large volumes of an intravenous salt solution. They gave me something to combat stress induced muscle degradation, and vitamin E. I was still in Critical Care, but I was doing better. They allowed my friends and family to stay with me while I slept, but only one at a time. Moondancer had to return to Canterlot and Sunburst went home, the rest took turns keeping a vigil overnight and into the next morning.
I apparently woke up a few times that night but did not recognize Cadence, Shining or Starlight Glimmer, who were there by turn at my bedside. I remember none of this. I had much improved by morning. I was sleeping peacefully and when I did wake up, there was beet pulp soup laced with fresh raw spinach and soothing herbs for me to eat. I could smell the chamomile. Chamomile is mildly toxic. There was probably valerian in there too. I was moved to sub-acute care later that morning for observation. I was discharged the next morning and Starlight took me home.
Flurry Heart awoke from her nap (we could hear her babbling in the next room) and Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, satisfied that I wasn't going to keel over, made me promise to be careful with strange books, and packed up Flurry Heart to leave for the Crystal Empire. I walked with them to the train station where their locomotive was waiting for them. They don't travel by pegasus-drawn chariot like Princess Luna and Princess Celestia.
So they left. So soon. Maybe we could go camping some time. When Flurry Heart is older.
