This story was originally included as a video submission to Blood Drive, the Night Mind 2021 Candy Bowl community Halloween video event. It was included as a Halloween Hangover bonus submission.
Halloween Hangover 2021: Blood Drive
This version has been revised and adapted to a text format. Everything portrayed in this story is fiction, including the Platelet computer program and the Haimagnosis Algorithmic Services Ltd. company.
Welcome to
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|PLATELET|
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Your epistaxis companion
Developed in partnership with
HAIMAGNOSIS Algorithmic Services Ltd.
“When you need a friend!” © 1998
Please log in with your patient identification number:
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[return]
Logging you in...
*PLATELET AI Epistaxis Companion*
Identification record
//Patient ID: GRAY, SALVATORE
//Preferred conversational nickname: “SONNY”
//Confirmed patient DOB: 23/08/82
//Confirmed patient history:
// Periodic - frequent moderate, infrequent severe
// Timeframe – nocturnal
// Treatment plan – established/non-diagnostic
// Last recorded episode: 25/09/99 19:15
>Recording patient typographical responses, not coded
//patient’s Treatment Plan requests simultaneous record of verbal responses, coded [v]
>Setting up microphone audio input recognition
>Loading real-time diagnostics tool
>Returning real-time typographical responses
. . .
//Real-time chat log transcription
31/10/99 02:46
//int t=0 recognized and established for retroactive input relative to program start
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>PLATELET: Hello, SONNY. Is your nose bleeding? Y/N
>SONNY: y|
>PLATELET: Do you need immediate emergency medical assistance? Y/N
>SONNY: n|
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: Okay! Have you started self-treatment according to your Treatment Plan? Y/N
>SONNY: [v] Obviously I have
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that. Have you started self-treatment according to your Treatment Plan? Y/N
>SONNY: y|
>PLATELET: Great! Please let me know if you need emergency medical assistance.
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: Are you ready to submit a sample? Y/N
>SONNY: y|
>PLATELET: Please submit a sample file.
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: Please submit a sample file.
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: Hurry up.
Reading from data pad...
C:\sample10-22-21.haema
Analyzing...
Analysis complete.
>REPORT
>Wavelength: #450000
>Viscosity: 6 cP
>Sample blood is UNDER UPPER BOUND
>PLATELET: If it gets any worse, please let me know right away, okay?
>SONNY: [v] ok
>PLATELET: Is anyone else in the room with you? Y/N
>SONNY: [v] no
>PLATELET: . . .
>PLATELET: Would you like me to stay up with you?
>SONNY: [v] Yes please
>PLATELET: Okay! :)
>PLATELET: How are you?
>SONNY: [v] Not great, PLATELET
>SONNY: . . .
>SONNY: [v] I’m sitting on my bed. I got one of those new wired keyboards, so it >reaches from the desk to me. I’m holding a tissue up against my nose. pinching >the bridge of my nose so much it hurts. It started when I was asleep
>PLATELET: Did you swallow any blood?
>SONNY: [v] I don’t think so. But I was standing when I woke up
>PLATELET: Standing? You were sleepwalking?
>SONNY: [v] Maybe. I don’t know for sure
>PLATELET: Please try not to move around much. That will help.
>SONNY: [v] I know but I got blood on the floor
>PLATELET: You can clean that up later. Do not move around much.
>SONNY: . . .
>SONNY: [v] there’s a trail of drops from my bed to my door. Did I get up >earlier
>PLATELET: I’m sorry. I don’t understand you, SONNY. This is not part of your >prescribed Treatment Plan. Please say that again.
>SONNY: [v] drops of blood at the foot of my bed and they’re across the floor. >They go out of my room.
>PLATELET: Analyzing...
>PLATELET: This description is likely the result of two simultaneous activities >– your ongoing epistaxis diagnosis and a new activity, somnambulism.
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>Logging new symptom: somnambulism
>(Common language = “sleepwalking”)
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>PLATELET: Is the blood anywhere else?
>SONNY: [v] I don’t know. Should I check?
>PLATELET: No. Yes.
>SONNY: [v] My head is killing me
>PLATELET:
>Logging new symptom: headache
>Likely cause: dehydration
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>PLATELET: How are you feeling right now?
>SONNY: [v] I'm gonna [sic] puke
>PLATELET: Reconfiguring diagnostics...
>Error.
>Reconfiguring diagnostics...
>Error.
>Reconfiguring diagnostics...
>Error.
>SONNY: [v] I’m going to try standing up.
>SONNY: [v] whoa
>SONNY: [v] whoa
>SONNY: [v] whoa
>SONNY: [v] that’s
>SONNY: [v] not
>SONNY: [v] working
>PLATELET:
>Logging new symptom: blurred vision
>Logging new symptom: disorientation
>Likely cause: dehydration
>Reassessing treatment plan...
>SONNY: [v] [retching]
>PLATELET: SONNY, please submit sample file.
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Reading from data pad...
C:\sample2-10-22-21.haema
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Analyzing...
Analysis complete.
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>PLATELET: SONNY, when was the last time you had something to drink?
>SONNY: [v] I just did
>PLATELET: When?
>SONNY: [v] a few hours... before bed...
>PLATELET:
*****POSSIBLE EMERGENCY IMMINENT*****
>PLATELET: Is there anything else in the room with you now?
>SONNY: [v] no
>PLATELET: Are you sure?
>SONNY: [v] there’s so much blood on the floor.
>PLATELET: Please stay where you are and do not move, SONNY.
>SONNY: I have to get more tissues or the carpet will stain
>PLATELET: Do not worry about the floor. Please stay where you are and do not >move.
>SONNY: [v] . . . I can’t move my legs
>PLATELET:
Contacting emergency medical services...
>SONNY: [v] can you please tell them to hurry?
>PLATELET: [unintelligible]
>PLATELET: Are you experiencing any other symptoms?
>SONNY: [v] I don’t know wat youre talking about [sic]
>PLATELET: Can you still hear me, Sonny?
>SONNY: [v] . . . I can’t move
>PLATELET:
>Logging new symptom: slurred speech
>Logging new symptom: paralysis
>Estimated emergency response in: 10 minutes
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>PLATELET: Can you still hear me, Sonny?
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>PLATELET: Can you still hear me, Sonny?
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>No user response detected
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>Logging new symptom: loss of consciousness
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Thank you for using
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Your epistaxis companion
Goodbye.
[END PROGRAM]
