Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 04, 2013

Well, speak of the devil, er ditto….. ;-)

Wally: “Ditto, little buddy, that’s amazing! It looks like we’re in Bill Gate’s third vacation home! Wow, gotta love the indoor waterfalls. But, about having an estate that can be seen from space…”

Really he should open his eyes when setting someone else’s broken bone. That way he can make sure he got it straight at least.Holly later: “Look I can scratch my nose without bending my arm.”Wally:“Damn it Holly, I’m an engineer not a DOCTOR!!”

The $100 question, can the dittoes hide the delightful duo from the Topsiders without turning them invisible so that Wally can’t see what he’s doing.

I love Holly’s expression in panel 3.

Wally has gone right into topside survival mode. Not a single moment of indecision. He’s back where he belongs.

Six am, I have been awake since 3:30, not by choice. The sad news is I am kicking the oxycodone that I have been taking for 6 years! No cure just wait and suffer. And a little MJ that the MD doesn’t know about. Anyway, back to the most important situation. Why don’t we hear her holler?Because she is a Holly?I like the little dittos .They look like they are alert and ready for the news and requests from Wally. He must have been trained well.Surprising that he is also a doctor, although he may have met others in the past who needed care. Love you allBlessed Be

many broken bones do not even have to be reset, many others are self explanatory. It is the truly smashed up that really need a doctor, but nature has a way of coping with them, too(if it doesn’t get infected and you die.)

Everybody should know how to set a bone. How do you set a bone?

Wally the cat!The wonderful, wonderful cat.Whenever he gets in a fix,He reaches into his bag of tricks!

Actually gang, before getting deeply into how effective is Wally’s emergency treatment, we should look for a comment from Jenner; after all he is a doctor…

An open reduction may be the best choice, but Holly and Wally do not have that choice. They aren’t likely to have plates, pins or screws made of surgical steel, titanium or ceramics. If Holly had a complete fracture of her humerus, first, her broken arm would be shorter than the other, and there would be no doubt it is broken(BTDT). Secondly, at her age, and with the possibility of a recent miscarriage, her minerals are already low, and the protocol for me has been to stabilize the fracture, and wait perhaps two weeks before attempting an open reduction. If they had a convenient, modern surgical clinic.Now with a compression bandage and splint, Wally has done as well as people have done for the best part of thousands of years. You know, instead of leaving them to enter a different level of the food chain.

It’s very likely Wally has had at least first-aid training, and perhaps basic medical training. Even if he hasn’t, I’d presume that his previous life topside has involved some medical procedures, carried out by himself, on himself.

Certification in what? Boy Scout merit badge forty years ago? When I did my first aid merit badge the Boy Scout Handbook was similar to your description, but according to a number of orthopedists I had seen, it was oversimplified to the point of incorrect info. Fortunately, its standard position was don’t move the injured and comfort them until professionals arrived.EMT training? Again, get your money back. Spiral fractures, compression fractures, traumatic fractures, lateral fractures, osteoporosis fractures and on and on.In the USA, a compound(open) fracture has to break the skin and expose the damaged myelin sheath to atmospheric contaminants the immune system has great trouble fighting. If you ever had an infection of the bone and myelin, you would never forget it, and even twenty years later watch where the knee was and conduct situation analysis and threat assessment to the previously damaged area. I was more accident prone than Hubris, and saw orthopedists regularly, and when I was in Washington DC for nearly ten years, working, earning my MBA, then contract consulting, I not only saw an orthopedist instead of a GP, was assigned housing with the residents next door to GWU Hospital, and the same orthopedist was assigned to see me monthly at Riggs or the IMF.

HERE’S WIKI

Oh, and just between you and me, wrestling is staged. Someone would have to be super amped up to consider trying to touch, much less set the fracture you described. Wrestlers still carry razor blades to cut their foreheads and spill lots of blood just for show.

For myelin sheath, please substitute the words endosteum or periosteum, my mind gets nervous when I talk fractures. Hey, ever wake up while Dr is rebuilding a zygmomatic arch from inside your mouth? No fun.

What would happen if Wally asked the dittoes to lead him to his ship or safety. The dittos seem to have some psychic ability.

National Institute of Health: FRACTURES

Totally off topic for the current strip- Thinking about quantifying Amesworth radiation in terms of atomic destruction rates. So, perhaps something like milligram per kilogram per second as a start point. That is a nice round number and probably well within a start point for biological symptoms to start, if the presumption of hydrogen atom annihalation is at work.

Could Wally bury the pod in dust, and use the pod as a temporary survival space? I know air in that small space would run out quickly, but some sort of ventilation system could be rigged. Or just bury it, smooth the surface and get outta Dodge City.Panel 2 yesterday looks like something shot the pod. Panels 1 and 2 are the similar in the pod is already partly buried up to the doors, except for a bar or flash, and a VLAM! Am I mis-seeing something?Even if Wally and Holly leave the pod exposed, would the dust-crawlers automatically bury the pod? I remember Mallard occasionally checks the surface through little cameras, and there are dustcrawlers, but has Endtown ever revealed any offensive capacity to surface threats? Inquisitively, JusSayin

I just noticed that in panel 2 Wally’s face looks a lot like Doc’s. I never figured out what he was, but that clenched teeth and squinky eyes are very similar.

In the interests of honesty—-and maybe sanity—-I’ll admit right here I’ve never broken any of my bones. I’d like to keep it that way.

Does anyone know if there are any future auctions going to come? What is Aaron’s current status. Been away for awhile, other duties drew me away

Not to be mean, but imagine the value of a complete set of Endtown prints when Endtown gets the respect it is due. And, well, Aaron has had some health problems, nudge,nudge, wink, wink. Ghoulishly, JusKiddin PS: I seem to recall an artwork called Blackie Magic. That would make a lovely Halloween decoration if that were available, but I really don’t know if prints are available for that. Darwinskeeper is the lucky owner of the original. October 2012 Auctions

The last time I wrote to Aaron was a couple weeks ago, and his schedule was really tight back then. I haven’t tried contacting him since just to keep from distracting him further. The fact that the strips are still being uploaded at the last minute and then are late being updated indicates to me that things haven’t gotten better yet. So, regarding auction artwork, please be patient.I did get an email from Jenner saying that he’s really busy right now, too. Which explains why we haven’t heard from him lately. However, it looks like the Doc Rat site might be running again – the last week’s worth of strips were re-run last week.

and sometimes not, so I take that to mean she is under a time crunch also. @ all: please donate to Aaron, even if it is $4.99, or $109. Remember, even though Surfi set up a great program to help raise funds for Aaron, and Selina took over when Surfi got overloaded, he still needs to pay for food, rent, utilities and the usual expenses he has ongoing medical expenses.@TSOJ: Thanks for the updates. I understand Jenner is taking care of his part of the transfer as well as preparing for at least a few conventions. Confurgence is in January, 19th on?, in Melbourne, and I understand that is a big one. Road trip anyone?Sincerely & Respectfully, JusSayin

So…is it worth a complaint to goComics, or should we all accept this as the New Normal? If it’s a problem on Mr. Neathery’s end, okay, but if he’s meeting the deadline…