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hey so when Grace gets knocked out the emergency light literally makes a line across his throat. yk. like he’s getting his head chopped off. like he’s dying. like the petrova line is killing him.
heyaa! i saw your post (https://www.tumblr.com/thereal-sillyguy/818621023317606400) and that was a fantastic read!
i wanted to ask your opinion on the book scenario where Grace wasn't put under by Armando, and had to lug Rocky back to his airlock and also got the severe hot ammonia burns. the book describes his airways were burned, and so was one of his eyes, could those exarcebate his brain trauma and subsequent consequences?
the ship is on half G when he drags Rocky but i imagine the effort wouldn't be good for the old noggin, and if his airways and lungs are burned, that coud be an oxygenation concern, right?
!!! I'm happy to answer this, but get seated because it'll be another long one HAHA — once again, keep in mind, I am just a guy who's autistic & has a special interest in medical-related things, so there is a chance I get information wrong — Sources will be mentioned throughout but links will be provided at the end of the post
(also, this made my ENTIRE day I love being asked these things bc i rarely get to talk about them so THANK YOU. PLEASE ask me more of these things I enjoy it so so much)
So. Going in order here,
As for Graces eyes (see link three & four) the damage isn't mentioned anywhere in the book beyond the fact that he's still able to see & he's lucky that he can. Technically, the extent of the damage wouldn't be known until a few days or a week after the injury, but we can safely assume additional vision impairment occurred. Under the assumption that Mary / Armando rinsed his eyes after putting him unconscious, his injuries probably aren't as bad as they could've been — but still bad. He probably suffered from some scarring to his corneas and potentially damage to his tear ducts from the burns.
Grace is intubated by Armando / Mary (pg.330 — "Blazing-hot ammonia floods the airlock and dormitory. I slam the airlock door behind me and spin the wheel lock. I hear hissing on the other side but I don't see anything. I might never see anything again. My eyes burn like they're on fire. My lungs feel like a hundred knives are having a dance-off. My skin is numb all along my left-side . . . My throat completely closes off. My body wants nothing to do with the ammonia. . . "Multiple injuries," says the computer. "Excessive eye mucus. Blood around the mouth, second-degree burns. Breathing distress. Triage result: intubate." . . . [Armando grabs] me and something is shoved violently down my throat. I feel a poke on my good arm. "IV fluids and sedation. . . And then I'm out like a light.") and is unconscious for "six hours, seventeen minutes" (pg.331). Graces blood oxygen concentration is also said to be at about 91% (which should, ideally, be around 95%-100%). He has chemical burns in his lungs & eyes and obviously the burn on his arm (technically, there's a chance he's got at least a few on his back).
Grace, (from looking at a case study of an incident that occurred in 1970s - Link One ) would absolutely have long-term affects to his lungs & vision due to the exposure of ammonia. Symptoms with his lungs / breathing would likely be a persistent cough, bronchial (see link two for lung-related anatomy) infections for what is presumably the rest of his life.
Additional clarification; Time Go Fishing in the book and in the movie are vastly different. Technically, only in the movie does Grace go unconscious (twice), but assuming this is a mix of the two canons anyway — Grace carries Rocky on his back with rope-like tethers (backpack style) when he, due to the reduced gravity, weighs about ~200 pounds (pg.328 — "I wrap two tethers under Rocky's carapace and loop them over my shoulders . . . I clip each tether to itself under my armpits. This won't be comfortable and it definitely won't look cool, but my hands will be free and I'll be lifting with my legs . . . My shoulders scream in pain. This is not a well-designed backpack with a properly distributed load. It's 200 pounds of alien held up by two thin straps digging into my collarbones. ) which is an issue for his back, legs & shoulders on it's own, but that's not really the focus here. The strain on his entire body in that scene isn't great for him, but as far as I know the biggest issue would be the strain his spine / spinal cord and nerves are under. I think the biggest concern there would be with the disks in your spine & the risk of them slipping out of place or something fracturing under the stress rather then with his spine directly but the stress on the body still isn't great for the brain (or nerves/spinal cord) either way, even with the fact that Grace has muscles. The weight compressing his spine like that isn't great and to get Rocky on his back like that he probably had to lift him incorrectly (his poor, poor spine man.)
For Graces lack of oxygen / inhalation of ammonia (see link five), it also provides some other context, as "Anhydrous ammonia [ammonia gas] in concentrations above 10000 [parts per million] is sufficient to evoke skin damage". I'm not any expert when it comes to whats dangerous levels of certain gas inhalation (however I do know that blood oxygen levels under 95% are a concern for hypoxia (lack of enough oxygen in the circulatory system) which becomes a risk for brain damage due to a lack of oxygen for a period of time, usually minutes) but I think based on what we see in the book, no direct damage happens to Graces brain because of the lack of it — but I think realistically it'd be at least a little bit of a concern when it comes to potential deterioration of the brains gray matter, especially if you take the movies head injuries into account.
I hope this is what you were looking for !!!! :DD
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A lifelong non-smoker who was the victim of a massive accidental exposure to anhydrous ammonia gas was followed up for 10 years. In the acut
Ammonia is a colorless irritant gas with a pungent order readily soluble in water to generate ammonium ions.[1] Ammonia is a natural by-prod
