Check up Pt4 Release

Posted on Sun Nov 27th, 2011 @ 1:34pm by 1st Lieutenant Noelle Ghassan & Lieutenant Commander Leanne Bowen & Lieutenant JG Wesley Valdez & Petty Officer 1st Class Laura Tay'ork

1,299 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: The Race for the Lost Treasure
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: Prior to departure

::ON::

IC: Noelle was getting ancy. She had been laid up in Sickbay for what seemed like three days maybe more. She had lost track of time and was going stir crazy. Sitting up, she found she was still a bit dizzy but she needed to get moving again. She didn't stand up but she did sit on the edge of the bed. She looked around for one of the medical staff, she was going to try and get sprung so that she could sleep in her own rack. Seeing no one around she slipped off the bed and took a minute to get her bearings. She felt very weak and dizzy, but refused to lay back down.

Things have been quiet in sickbay as it has become the night shift. Doctor Bowen has been on her feet nearly twelve hours. As soon as Doctor Valdez arrived for his 2nd half split shift, she handed him the PADDs of three patients that were confined to sickbay for the night. She nodded at the Vulcan that came to replace Nurse Tarango's shift.

Wesley glanced at the three PADDs as he walked over to check on each patients. Two of them appeared to be sleeping with no changes to their vitals, comparing it to the vitals taken thirty-minutes ago. He gave instructions to Nurse Tay'ork to continue monitoring the vitals every forty-five minutes.

He came to an area that had a curtain enveloped a biobed. He pulled it aside, finding a patient standing next to the bed that was very unstable on her legs. "What the hell?" He grasped her upper back and legs, lifting her up, putting her back on the biobed. "You should not be out of bed," he said with a stern voice.

Noelle rolled onto her side as her stomach lurched "I want to go back to my quarters. I feel fine." She said quietly as her stomach churned some more. She looked at Valdez, her heart rate was elevated slightly possibly due to the nausea and the dehydration from the blood loss. She closed her eyes for a moment "I'm hot." She said.

"You have to be monitor here until the morning." He placed the back of his hand on her forehead and nodded his head. "Your body is fighting an infection again," he said as he opened the tricorder to do a scan. After a minute, he put the instrument away and pulled out a hypospray. "I'll give you an antibiotic to help with it, but you must stay on this bed."

"I feel sick to my stomach." She finally admitted and she hated to admit it that she was exhausted and started to throw up again "Can I have something to drink?" She asked Wesley when she finished getting sick. She sighed still not feeling any pain that she knew should be there.

"I'll be right back," he left to open the medication cabinet and grabbed a few vials and returned to Noelle's biobed. "I'm giving you three medications: antibiotic, anti-vomit, and a relaxant to help you sleep. After this, I will get a nurse to give you ice chips." He took her arm and injected the medications and discarded the hypospray.

Noelle nodded "Why am I feeling sick to my stomach. I don't feel any pain, just warm and sick to my stomach." She said looking at Wesley as the medication entered her system and her stomach settled slightly. "And the warm feeling is unusual...so that means the fever is higher than normal."

"It's part of having an infection...the medication will help your stomach." He pulled up a stool and sat on it to be next to her bed. He continued to give her ice chips.

Noelle sucked on the ice chips and looked at Wesley "How long would I have been able to keep going if I hadn't had that bruise looked at?" She asked just to get an idea of how far she had pushed herself.

"Well, probably another day or two without seeking medical treatment, you would have been dead." Wesley wondered why she didn't feel pain at all before receiving pain medications before surgery. Maybe she has a disorder? He picked up the PADD and glanced at her medical history. Still, something doesn't add up. He sighed.

Noelle saw him reading the PaDD "You're not going to find the answer there. Dr. Bowen hasn't updated it." She said "I have CIP. Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. I never know when I've seriously injured myself. This is a prime example. If I wouldn't have noticed the bruising getting worse, I would have ignored it." Noelle said as she fell back asleep the medications finally calming her enough so that she could sleep.

After thirty minutes, the surgeon left her bed just as Noelle fell asleep and had the Vulcan nurse sat beside her to monitor her.

Several hours went by, Doctor Bowen walked into sickbay to her office. She didn't expect to see Doctor Valdez there. She found him in her chair reading something on her monitor. "Hello, Doctor."

Wesley looked up, "Doctor. I'm concerned about Noelle Ghassan's disorder and it is not listed in her medical file."

"The CIP? It's not listed there for a reason."

The surgeon transferred the information on this disorder to a PADD and stood up. "How come I didn't know about this?"

"It wasn't a concern at the moment. At least we treated her as if she had pain." Leanne went past him and sat in her chair.

"It needs to be put on her file to let other medical personnel know," he said as he stood in front of her desk.

"This is a classified disorder that needs to stay out of her file or she will lose her career as a marine. I intend to keep it that way till we find a cure. Starfleet Medical has been working a trial on this disorder and I'm waiting to get more information. They have a device implanted in the brain to stimulate pain, but it is in the early stages of this trial."

The surgeon stood silent for a minute. "I see. I would like to look into that and be the one to implant it, ma'am."

"Good. As soon as the trial gets approved and the information sent to me, I will notify you to perform the surgery. For now, this needs to be kept between us. You're dismissed from the shift."

"Yes, ma'am." Wesley turned and left with the PADD.

An hour later, Doctor Bowen approached Noelle. "How are you feeling?"

Noelle looked up at Bowen "I want to go back to my quarters." She said "I feel like I've been here for weeks." Noelle said "I'm still feeling sick and warm, but I want my bed." She said quietly, Valdez's words earlier still ringing in her ears. "I'll come back for a check up in the morning." She promised.

"As long as you wear this monitor," the doctor showed her a small device that attach on the skin above the heart. "You can be released to your quarters...nurse Tay'ork will walk you to your quarters. Later, a nurse will come to your quarters to give you medications."

Noelle nodded and affixed the small device to her chest and slowly got up, changed into a pair of sweats and a t-shirt and made her way to her quarters with nurse Tay'ork and crawled back into bed to sleep some more. She didn't notice the nurses coming or going she simply slept.

::OFF::

Lt. Commander Leanne Bowen, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
USS Calypso

2nd Lt Noelle Ghassan
Marine XO
USS Calypso

Lt. JG Wesley Valdez, M.D.
Surgeon
USS Calypso

Petty Officer 1st Class Laura Tay'ork
Nurse
USS Calypso

 

RSS Feed