Heal Thy Self

Posted on Mon Aug 2nd, 2010 @ 10:53am by Master Chief Petty Officer Barbara Tarango & Chief Petty Officer Samantha Gates & Lieutenant Commander Leanne Bowen & Master Chief Petty Officer Barbara Tarango

504 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Peace, or Something Like It
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: Current

[Sickbay]

After getting rid of the Emergency Medical Holagram, Leanne was still not happy with Doctor Hart leaving sickbay under the care of an EMH. An EMH is used for emergencies only. She still hasn't gotten a hold of him and wondered where he is since it is past the end of his shift.

Thirty minutes went by, Leanne picked up the tricorder and walked over to check on Barbara, her sick nurse. She started the scans while she appears to be asleep. The instrument beeped and she walked over to see the new patient.

"Hi...looks like you are waking up. How are you feeling?" Doctor Bowen set the instrument down on the nearby tray and placed her hands on her neck, palpating for swollen glands. She wanted to make sure that her immune system is not overdoing it, to fight the infections.

Sam slowly opened her eyes. It was very blurry at first. She couldn't focus or figure out where she was but as each second passed by her vision came into focus and she could make out that she was indeed inside the sickbay. She noticed a woman standing over her than felt her hands on her neck. She closed her eyes again. "As if I have been run over by a train..."

"You have a serious flu that has run you down. Can you tell me where you were before you were in the cargo bay? Did you visited the starbase?" Leanne removed her hands and picked up the tricorder from the tray to glance at her vitals.

Sam nodded gently but it hurt to do. She felt sore. "I came onto the ship from the base..." She responded as she tried to open her eyes again to look at the woman talking to her.

Leanne noticed how tired she was, "That's all I need to know. Go back to sleep and get some rest. I will come back to check on you later..."

Sam looked at the doctor and nodded lightly. She did feel very tired and found it rather hard to keep her eyes open. Maybe a lot of rest would do her some good and she did just that. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

The doctor went over to check on the nurse again, to make sure there were no changes. This virus has been easing up some...but a tough one, she thought as she gave another injection to Barbara's neck with a hypospray. Let's hope the special herbs that I got today from the base will help this. She has a couple of more hours before it is the Alpha shift, which is a morning shift. She strode over to her office to get to the replicator, getting another cup of coffee to stay awake.


=/= End of Transmission =/=


Lieutenant Leanne Bowen, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
USS Calypso

Chief Petty Officer Barbara Tarango [NPC]
Nurse
USS Calypso

Chief Petty Officer Samantha Gates [NPC]
Operations Officer
USS Calypso

 

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