Days Of Recovery

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A reader request. A Jiraiya lives au but just barely. He's in intensive care and you are the nurse in charge in of him. Things develop from there. Warning for things like medical talk and wounds/blood and injury.

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Day one of recovery. With supplies needed in hand, you make your way to certain hospital room. You enter the room without announcing yourself. The occupant inside is still unconscious. You shut the door and pull the curtains for some more privacy.

Your bedside manner is a little rusty, but you can do this. Lady Tsunade trusted you to do this. You mustn't disappoint. Patient care to this degree isn't normally part of your job but Lord Jiraiya is a special case. Supposedly you are the most qualified.

He survived by the skin of his teeth. At the moment he's covered from shoulders down in bandages. Blotches of blood are blooming through his dressings as they have reached their time to be changed. He's still recovering from an extensive set of surgeries. All of them done at the same time. His internal organs and the punctures that caused them had to be stitched together. His lung had to be inflated back to normal and the water that filled them had to be pumped out. The amputation to his left arm had to be taken back further due to the shattered bone and messy break of the wound.

It's just a lot.

Poor man had to be sewn back together at the seams. Despite the all the work done to him, he's doing well with recovery. He's reacting well to the drugs being pumped into him. His vitals haven't dipped or gone erratic. His complexion has come back from grey to his natural shade as his blood stays in his body. He must have the will to live. A will to live so strong that he's going to pull through. Yet there's still much work to do.

The damage to his throat was seen as non life threatening and pushed aside for now. The most that was done to it was repairing the airway so he can breathe, which is an operation that can be done mostly with a very talented hand in chakra control. It's an emergency procedure, lots of emergency fixes like that can be mostly repaired with chakra and plenty of patience. It's simply a temporary fix. It is far from operating normally.

His larynx is still in rough shape. The probably of his voice ever working again, at least for now, is slim. Her ladyship is researching and working on a solution, if anyone can do it she can. His damage is reminiscent of that to those who suffer cancer of the larynx. There's a chance that if she does succeed in repairing his voice, he could be stuck with you for sometime for speech therapy. A surgery like this hasn't really been done before. Not to that extent. He may stutter or have trouble forming certain vowels.

Time will tell. Lord Jiraiya has hardly gotten the opportunity to recover from these surgeries. The surgery for his voice won't be set until he's spent time with you monitoring his recovery. You set down your supplies and start with a simple checkup. You activate your chakra and place your hands gently on his body. You scan to see how his injuries are doing. There's small flares and pulses as you detect the injuries, but nothing has become undone. He's still on track. He just needs to wake up.

You move on to some of the care his lordship needs. Everyone was so frantic when he was dropped off by one of his toads the day previous. He was rushed into those surgeries that lasted hours and was handled by Tsunade herself. She and her most talented staff worked until they almost dropped from exhaustion. Jiraiya was placed in this room and you were called to be his caretaker. Most of those who worked on him are asleep after such extensive work. You have no active cases and as the head of your department, you were deemed the best to watch over Jiraiya while his friend rests. At hearing the request you were quite flattered that the Lady Tsunade saw you worthy to watch over someone she loves dearly. It's a lot of pressure but you can handle it. For now you start with the basics.

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