"How is she?" Kay asked as the doctor they had seen working on Elle in the Emergency Room came over to them as they enered the ICU.
"I'm afraid I don't have very good news for you. The snake that bit your friend caused severe envenomization. As you know, she suffered a cardiac arrest in the emergency room. She did survive but...."
"Is she allergic to the antivenin?" Kay asked.
"Luckily she isn't, which is about the only thing that she has going for her at the moment. The bites on her face hit vascular tissue spreading the venom rapidly, bringing on the arrest. We've begin treatment with the antivenin but I'm afraid there has been no change in her condition yet. She has severe edema from her left shoulder to her fingers as well as swelling on the right side of her face. We've ran 100 mL through the iv already and we have another 100 mL running now but so far we haven't seen any change. The venom is also causing clotting problems. We've given her four units of blood so far as well as two units of platelets. If you would like to see her, you can go in now. She's been fairly heavily sedated though and she's on a respirator, so she won't be able to respond to you though."
"Elle?" Jay whispered as they entered the room. At least the ICU offered semi-enclosed rooms instead of an open ward like Jay had seen at several hospitals in New York. He couldn't believe the size of her arm. It was swollen to an inhuman size, almost as big around as Frank the Pug. Her face was even worse, the swelling distorting her features so much that he could barely recognize her. Just then he saw the respirator tube. They had cut into her lower neck and placed the plastic tubing in through the resulting hole.
"They couldn't do anything else with all of the swelling," Kay murmered as he sat down beside Elle and put his hand over hers.
"I hope that MiB medical team gets here soon," Jay said as he settled down on Elle's other side. Surely they would be able to do something to fix this.