"separated? i thought that was impossible."
"it isn't but it will be a difficult procedure though.
you both have one person's heart and lungs working for two people.
so it's natural that it would be taxing for both of your body.
your heart rate is high but the degree of oxygen saturation is far too low.
strictly speaking, it's not that both of you needed to be separated..."
they needed to perform an extraction.
a surgery which would extract one life, one person, one of us.