[it's hard to care about niceties and awkwardness when they're both, you know, dying. that's hyperbole but the point is there]

So long as our symptoms d-don't progress, no.

[he answers, before taking a careful sip of his water. it helps. not much, but it helps]

It's possible to suffer n-non-lethal digitalis poisoning. . . it isn't pleasant, but riding out the discomfort is better than the alternative.