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Would hospital care after minor dog attack injuries expose a first trimester pregnancy?

Details:
I have a story I'm currently working on set in a modern type world, and a plot point where one of the two main characters is attacked by a pack of street dogs and gets some minor scratch and bite injuries. I'm thinking just a few stitches at most. I can guess they'll need "just in case" antibiotics and rabies shots because of the bites, but would common care involve any tests that would expose an early pregnancy?

Goals:
I'm trying to keep the pregnancy a surprise for the other main character later in the story, so a "some hospitals would do these tests but some wouldn't" could be ruled that this time it wasn't done. But if it's very common to do certain blood or other tests that would easily reveal a pregnancy, that's a problem. And having the other main character who's acting as their savior/caregiver in this scenario decide not to get them treatment wouldn't be in character or suit his arc in the story, even with minor wounds that in theory could be treated at home.

Do I need to change details of the attack, or depict this medical team as negligent? Or is the stealth of this pregnancy safe?

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halfamoon

First character who came to my mind for "The Scholar" prompt was Sam Carter who's saved her team plenty of times with her scientific knowledge. She's cool and competent at what she does!

Title: Getting back to the basics
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Character: Sam Carter (plus Cassie is briefly here too)
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Summary: Sam's favorite part of her job is the science
Link: here on ao3 or you can read it under the cut below

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(bonus silly author's note)

In my head, there was backstory about how Cassie asked Sam for homework help because Janet was busy treating SG-3 who came back from offworld with a mysterious blue rash.

But obviously I could not fit that in the drabble 😂

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halfamoon

Title + link: The Love Connection

Author: ForFucksSakeJim

Prompt: Day 9 - The Scholar

Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series

Characters/Pairing: T'Pring/Nyota Uhura

Length: 10,381

Rating: Teen

Warnings: None

Summary: While transporting a group of Vulcans to their new homeworld, Uhura meets T’Pring, a talented linguist whose gravitational pull she just can’t refuse.

Reccer's notes: This fic brings T'Pring and Nyota together due to their shared love of linguistics and T'Pring's appreciation for Nyota's perfect Vulcan pronunciation. They are both delightfully complex and fun characters here and the growth that develops from a love of language seemed to definitely fit the theme.

diffrentcolours

I have just finished re-watching the 1979 "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" series with Alec Guinness. Such a wonderful piece of television, so beautifully filmed and constructed around a brilliant story. The acting is so wonderfully subtle.

Next up, "Smiley's People" from 1982 - I've not seen that before, so it'll be a complete surprise.

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halfamoon

Title: Do Androids Dream of Demon Scientists?
Fandom: Dragon Ball
Relationship: Android 21/Dr. Arinsu (F/F)
Word count: 8603

Summary: Dr. Arinsu is a person with an ambition to take over the Demon Realm. She brings back to life a scientist from Earth to create an ultimate weapon. But they both didn't anticipate that business is not the only thing a mistress and her "tool" could share.

Link: AO3 publication.

alasse_irena

This did in fact already happen to me in Aus, but now it's happening to everyone in the server I run as well.

So I'm crawling back here to vent I guess.

And solicit suggestions for alternative chat options with similar functionality who won't do this to us.

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halfamoon

Title: Historical Patterns

Fandom: The Pitt

Characters: Mel/Frank

Rating: G

Prompt: Day 8: Pet Peeve

Summary: Mel is not great at dates. She goes on one anyway. It also does not go well. Fortunately, someone is there to lift her spirits.

On AO3

thistleingrey

( cracked my medical mystery, positive outcome )

sovay

Today's excitements included a more complicated dentist's appointment than originally envisioned and having to stop very suddenly short on I-93, but I did technically find my way to Scollay Square.

Current Music: Rose Betts, "Come Away"

cosmolinguist

My alarm went off two hours earlier than usual today. I'd had the kind of bad sleep you do when you know you'll need to get up early: it took me longer to fall asleep in the first place and I woke up repeatedly, convinced at one point that I'd definitely slept too late until I looked at the clock and saw it was 4:30am.

I was starting work early so I could be interviewed for BBC Radio Leeds. It went really well, thanks I think to a journalist I'd spoken to a couple weeks ago. I had a really nice conversation. And then a quiet morning with a big cup of coffee while I gently got myself up to dealing with meetings and emails.

My mood and mental state have been low all weekend, and I'm really struggling with sleep again. And eating.

Oddly, in a total inverse of the past...oh, year or more, it seemed like I was feeling least bad during work hours. Walking Teddy now kinda marks the end of my work day, and it's a really nice little ritual that sometimes gives me time to file away the work day and think about what's ahead. But today, I didn't feel the usual relief at finishing work, but more... overwhelmed maybe. Everything feels like so much at the moment: watching the effects I'm seeing around me from ICE, Gaza, the Epstein files, UK politics thanks to the by-election we're living amidst, politics in sports from the Olympics to Bad Bunny...

All my podcasts are being boring and/or not updating, they're all conspiring to make me actually read my book-club book even though i don't wanna -- it's The Day the World Came to Town, about the multiple airliners' worth of passengers that descended on a small Newfoundland town on 9/11 when the U.S. closed its air space. I'm still at the beginning and just stressed out hearing about people in Europe getting on these transatlantic flights, the normal day the air traffic controller thought he was going to have... The book is leaving me both agitated and bored at the same time somehow.

I screwed up a plan to get nice takeout as a treat tonight, I couldn't help do this week's Tesco order as had been the plan for this evening, and I could only sit through half of Sinners, my favorite movie from all of last year, before I had to go lie in the dark. But that was hours ago; I can't sleep.

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vivdunstan

Just tried a pack of Oreo Creme Egg biscuits (limited edition) Martin brought home last week. Not great. Any Creme Egg flavour is pretty wiped out by the strong-tasting chocolate biscuit parts. And so it’s surprisingly bland. But maybe huge Oreo fans would enjoy.

wildeabandon

First day of lectures today. I was supposed to be starting with History of Church and Theology: Contemporary Period at 9.00, but got an email sent at 7:46 saying that it was cancelled (along with tomorrow's and both of next week's), because the professor is in India. I can't help but feel that maybe he might have known that would be happening more than 75 minutes before the lecture, by which point I'd already left the flat, but it gave me a couple of extra hours in the library, so I'm not really complaining.

Following that was Coptic II, with my favourite prof. The first half was talking about the practicalities of what the semester was going to look like, including asking for thoughts on what texts we'd like to read. There were a whole two students, so unless it turns out to be too difficult for relative beginners, then we should get to look at "The Investiture of the Archangel Michael", an apocryphal text which covers some of the same ground as Paradise Lost, which was one of my requests.

In the afternoon we had Christian Social and Political Ethics, which was reasonably interesting, although I'm actually hoping that I'm going to be allowed to swap that module for a Hebrew/Midrash one that I'm a lot more excited about. I'm not sure when I'll find out though, so until I do I'll be going to lectures for both. Afterwards I was doing some reading related to that first lecture, which talks about the necessity of social and relational ties for human beings and humanity to flourish. From time to time it used the phrase "mutual flourishing" and I kept having to remind myself that this was a book chapter written in a Roman Catholic milieu, and therefore it had nothing to do with the very specific way that phrase is used in Anglican ecclesial politics...

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/02/09/get-the-mh-stories-3-demo

Capcom just released a demo for Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection and I love it. The demo seems to have come out for pretty much everything but I grabbed it for the PS5 Pro and it’s gorgeous. Plenty of people love the Monster Hunter series but I feel like the “Stories” side games get overlooked. That sort of makes sense as the Stories games are very different. These are turn-based RPG’s with an anime art style and a focus on younger characters with monster collecting/ battling. Think of them like Pokemon + Monster Hunter and it’s just as cool as it sounds.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/02/09/get-the-mh-stories-3-demo

vivdunstan

Registrations opened tonight for Tolkien Society's Oxonmoot in Oxford, which since 2020 has offered online as an option. I've attended online ever since, getting to watch an amazing range and quantity of Tolkien-related talks, and for months after on catch up.

It's not the same as being there in person, but the Tolkien Society offering online as an option for Oxonmoot has let me watch and enjoy a huge number of talks in the previous 6 years, and feel like an active member of the society more than I ever have in decades before, too ill to attend in person.

mtbc

I dreamed that I was taking some computer programming course where, in the classroom, I had to develop some real-world robotic mimicry system like: I draw and, as I draw, it stitches thread so as to reproduce the lines I'm drawing. We had a reasonable amount of time for completing the task because the class was a double-period, at the start of the day.

The dream transitioned to a different activity that I now forget more, where I was facing a related programming assignment but outdoors: I was approaching a small, ruined outbuilding where I was to perform some part of the task, not able to take long because some rather autonomous thing was out there pursuing me.

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girlmeetstrouble

Hi, all -

The winners are:

Mary Stewart - This Rough Magic (shewhostaples - first)
MM Kaye - Death in the Andamans (aka Night on the Island) (themis1 - second)
Madeleine Brent - Tregaron's Daughter (wychwood - third)
Charlotte Armstrong - The Chocolate Cobweb (coughingbear - fourth)

shewhostaples,

themis1, and

coughingbear - what book would you like to pick? And what order would you prefer? I know

coughingbear said not the next one.

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halfamoon

TITLE: When the clouds are in your shoes kerk-hiraeth.dreamwidth.org/22595.html

PROMPT: Day Five – The Outlaw

FANDOM: Firefly (post-movieverse)

AUTHOR: kerk_hiraeth

RATING: PG-13

LENGTH: 425

CHARACTERS: Zoë Alleyne; River Tam; Jayne Cobb; OC (Saisyu Washburne)

SUMMARY: Concluded that nothing I could say would summarise better than this allpoetry.com/Here-Is-A-Wound-That-Never-Will-Heal,-I-Know by Edna St. Vincent Millay

A/N: This was inspired by halfamoon's own Big Damn Admin cmk418's Day 5 Firefly fic halfamoon.dreamwidth.org/567034.html ; mind was too busy writing stories in my head, including this one.

Goddess be with you,

天下無不散之筵席 { There is no such thing as a feast that never ends }

kerk

Current Mood: lonely
Current Location: USS Rattray
Current Music: In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles (fanvid for SKAM France S6)

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You can watch episode 1 here.

Also, since I have a few videos:

( Hobey Baker, probably gay hockey player from the early 20th century )

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( Curling and all the nitty-gritty )

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Ian Jackson

Wound care exposing a pregnancy.

Day 9: Fic - Stargate SG-1 - Sam Carter

REC - Day 9 - Star Trek AOS - Uhura/T'Pring

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Day 9 - Dragon Ball - Android 21/Dr. Arinsu

Discord is doing age verification nonsense

Day 8 - Fic - The Pitt - Mel King

something different

There's nothing here but echoes

Strugglebus

Authors Publish Open Letter Condemning BookCon Organizer’s Parent Company RELX Over ICE Ties - React

Oreo Creme Egg biscuits

Back to school!

Get the MH Stories 3 Demo!

Signed up for Oxonmoot for 6th year running

A strange computer programming course

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