1. I actually did know the medical term for this! It's a shame that people mix up the medical term with the more colloquial one. I drank Ensure when I was hospitalized for self-starvation in my teens, and I still revert to protein shakes when I simply have no appetite.
2. The theme of organ removal sounds like it hits close to home for you. I'm sorry you had to go through all that pain. Also, hopefully you don't need me to tell you that if a story in PASF is more than you can handle, you don't have to read it.
Not to worry. I've yet to run across anything that I think qualifies as a trigger for me. Most things that strike close to home are just... I maybe get more out of the writing than someone who hasn't experienced something similar?
And sometimes that includes having an additional layer to my "this is a horror trope" response.
The only times I've ever had to nope out of any kind of literature was to do with stories revolving around cancer patients and that dwell on the emotional toll of extended, expensive and life-threatening disease, and I highly doubt you're going to put anyone through that in this series. (The only examples that I can think of are John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" and NorthernSparrow's "You Can Keep Holding On". I read the former and ended up crying for a solid hour, and I couldn't finish the latter because it was so upsetting. Objectively I know both are excellent pieces of writing, but I was not in the right head-space for either of them.)
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