Magnesium lisinopril

Incredible, gorgeous, exceptional, erotic writing. I’ll never read the word ‘pearlescent’ again without thinking of this and you. And magnesium strips! Please think about writing another episode.

Your description closely parallels my own experience, including some gynecomastia as a side effect of blood pressure meds (Lisinopril is the US brand), so my guess is your story is pretty autobiographical and VERY interesting to me. One thing I have doubts about is listening to augment your breasts. Listening to what? or is this another trick pulled by Autocorrect?

KIA
You were very close on the IV's, they'd split it 1 for fluids(AKA. water and salt) in which basics like the magnesium would be added, 2 another IV in the other arm/feet for heavy drip like antibiotics or meds. If they add a third it's for a drug you don't mix, I've died and had all four that's anti-death or blood meds, may have shaved her and put in a drain though.
For future writing of course.

... unless of course you LIKE being blinded by your machinery being destroyed in a fire that rivals the brightness, if not the temperature of the sun (Sol).
While not AS volatile as magnesium, pure titanium DOES ignite and burn much the same. Thats why special precautions need to be taken when machining the stuff... ALL of them with the goal of keeping it cool enough to not combust into a nearly uncontrollable fire that burns hot enough to melt steel as if it were butter.
Titanium is also non-ferrous meaning it contains NO iron and thus is NOT magnetic.

I have a disability that leaves me literally unable to move a muscle, and was dying from magnesium and potassium deficiency in my cells until recently. So I have no choice and little predictive power over total paralysis and brief comas. I've explained it earlier. I'd appreciate it if you didn't smear my character as untrustworthy.
I'd hate to lose any reader, but if you don't think its worth the wait, it's not hurtful. There are plenty of writers on this site who don't have a severe illness, twins to rear and grad school to interfere with real life here on Lit. They're probably more your cup of tea.

This is by far the hottest series i've read in a long time. is it wrong i wish it were real? some other ideas for side stories and future things. Have we established basically everywhere is overrun? is like the middle of the continents overrun yet? if not, maybe a stalemate in the midwest if they've discovered about the magnesium. that could be interesting. the queen truly trying to seduce people to her side. sending thralls to try and convince people to turn willingly. Would love to hear the story of the thralls. What about them allow them to run free without just being trapped in the walls of tentacles and stuff. were they captured or come willingly?

My thoughts:
Irillith is either dead or a new crew member, so the merchant and the engineer are safe as she will be dealing with them 'later'. Dead either from her mother, when John refuses to kill off that alien race, or from John when she attacks him as a result of that refusal and finds out he is more than she realizes. A new crewmember if she is defeated but alive and asks for asylum, knowing her life is forfeit otherwise.
I am just interested when Dana will figure out the crystal lattice is the answer to the laser weaponry power.
I usually don't point out such things, but it is VERY against the flow and baseline of the story for Dana not to figure that out almost immediately. Lasers are actually pretty simple: excite a noble gas so it radiates light (some chemical lasers use the energy of oxidation that is translated to light (like the light from burning magnesium--yes I know other chemicals are used but that stuff is national security level--need to know--information), use lenses (crystal lattices) and filters to make that light parallel, and use other optics (crystal lattices) to focus the light into an energy beam. The problem is the crystals are not ever perfect, so some of the light energy is translated to heat within the system.
The more energy in, the more energy out (barring a melting of the crystals due to absorbing part of the energy as a result of impurities in the lattice structure (like MICROFRACTURES or the color of the crystal lattice (like ruby) reflecting some of the light in an energy backlash)...the power conversion to light and color of the laser is dependant upon both the noble gas you use and the crystal lattice you use to make the light parallel.
And the color has some effect on a target based on the reflective wavelength properties of the target (If you use a red (ruby crystal) laser against a PERFECTLY pigmented red target, the laser just deflects and the energy absorption by the target is radically reduced or is not absorbed by the target at all). So the most powerful laser is a white one as white light has all the wavelengths and only a small part of the energy would be deflected by the target color.
Dana would know this.