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Help, I'm stuck & need a doctor's advice!

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Shecky:
Ribs supply support and form for the torso; without entire ribs, that's compromised. At the very least, your character will be severely motion-restricted, both from physical constraints and from diminished breathing capacity.

Maybe try an old scifi/fantasy standby - have the character rapidly bounce back and forth between forms. You're essentially looking for an iteration-to-reset. ;D Or have her "discover" a "new" aspect of her transformation ability: the capacity to alter consciously her physical form (i.e., "think" new ribs in place). I suggest this because medically, she's kinda screwed.

meg_evonne:
Well, I put her in the worst medical position she could be and I meant too.  There will be magic involved which was handling the liver--repairing at a submolecular level.  Looks like I need another magic doctor in there just for the ribs...   What we will do to a character, just to further a relationship or the plot.   ;)

Blaze:
It seems to me that if you do have magic healing, and you don't want to stress the body too much, you can use cadaver bones and replace the missing ribs that way, cut out the damaged portion of the ribs entirely and then insert a section of rib from a donor. 

This will allow her to recover, and might even allow for some interesting side effects, such as needing to finish something the donor started, or simply craving a food she never even liked before, it doesn't stray too far from the medical establishment, shaved bone from elsewhere on a person can be used as a base for laying down new bone (as in cranial closures.)

When the Gibson girl look was in, women actually went in and had some of there lower ribs removed for that perfect hour glass figure.  If these lower or "free floating" ribs are intact, they might be removed and shaved and used as replacement material also then you wouldn't need a donor. 

How many ribs did the bird form have? you can always say that since the bird only had X ribs on that side then only X ribs were destroyed.

Lots of way to play it.

I would be happy to help you bounce ideas back and forth.

Tasmin21:
And word from my best-friend-the-doctor:

Okay well, to start with if the author wants to crush his charecter's spleen she would need to be hit on the left side.  The liver is on the right side however, the hit would have to be lower on the rib cage to hit the liver, or angled down from the armpit.  other structures you can hit are the aorta, which does lie more to the right (but would kill her pretty quickly, the inferior vena cava (main vein that feeds into the heart) he could hit pretty easily.  As for the ribs, yes you can remove part of a rib and be okay, I've seen 2 in a row removed before but in think more than that would be pushing it.  That area would be more vunerable to damage, and repeat collapsing of
the lungs.   You can use bone grafting to fill the hole.  A graft from the
charecter herself can be taken, usually from the hip bone (illiac crest) depending on the size, or a cadaver doner can be used as well.

meg_evonne:
You guys are so AWESOME!  Thank you!  This is more than enough to get me going.  I sort of like the cadaver bone angle.  I'll ignore spleen, already have the aorta being replaced as it is...

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