Posted by Lieutenant Tija Aizala (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Sickbay

Posted by Gamemaster Wombat (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Sickbay

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Garth (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Sickbay
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Moving her gaze from the severed hand, to Richard’s body and then back to Garth, Tija replied in a slightly detached voice, “It was necessary and I’m sure Richard would have understood. And while I won’t condone everything for the sake of science or medicine, there are times when critical situations call for drastic actions.” After a brief pause during which she studied the readouts from the antifungal treatment, she continued, “And lets be honest: This,” she gestured towards the Petri dishes, “gives us the safest way of trying out treatments. Unless necessary I don’t want anyone taking any risks by getting within reach of either of the infected crew members. And until we find a treatment I’m not sure who much we can do anyway.” Holding back a resigned sigh, she added, “And while the antifungal treatment you tried so far didn’t do much against the parasite within Richard’s body, it might still have an effect on Lieutenant Torrirs and Cadet Osten. It may buy us some time buy slowing down the growth of the organism.”

Garth puffed up his chest a little at Tija’s praise. “I’m glad you approve, Lieutenant. But medicine isn’t my specialty, so I’m happy to let you lead further attempts at a cure. I’ll support you in any way you need, of course.”

Tija then turned around so that she was looking directly at Richard’s and the readouts over his biobed. She was chewing on her lower lip, though nobody would be able to see that because of the mask she was wearing. She didn’t like at all what she was seeing and her imagination started to conjure up the most horrific scenarios. Eventually she said more to herself than anybody else, “Fungi generally grow exceptionally well in warm and moist environments … His body temperature is problematic as well …” While lost in thought, the doctor started to tap her right food on the ground. “So why not try something simple. It’s not like I have to worry about causing any long term damage to Richard’s body.”

With a soft sigh she walked briskly towards the nearest tray with hyposprays and loaded one with 3,000mg Ibuprofen. The dose was a lot higher than she would ever administer to a living human, but in this case she didn’t have to worry about kidney failure or giving him an over dose. Yet it might reduce his temperature. With the hypospray in hand, she walked over to his biobed. =/\=Computer, create a small opening in the force field surrounding Ensign Richard; large enough for my hand and where his shoulder is.=/\= Once there was an opening, she reached inside and quickly injected Richard before withdrawing her hand again right way. She then said, =/\=Computer, close the opening again. And then lower the humidity within the force filed to 0% and the temperature to 0°C. =/\=

~Lt. Tija, Asst. CMO

Garth’s mouth pulled downward in a thoughtful frown. “Brilliant, doctor. If we can expel the infection while only dehydrating the crewmates, that would definitely be preferable to pumping them full of chemicals.”

(Lt. J.g. Garth, CSO)

Emmy was carefully listening, trying to follow the conversation that was drastically out of her area of specialty. Garth summarized the decision tree perfectly, however, and she could understand that was certainly a superior choice if it would work. She nodded her agreement but otherwise remained silent and out of the way to allow them to work.

Davis, CO

As the temperature and humidity fell, the corpse slowly started to desiccate and become hard, the tendrils sticking out of the stump eventually stopped moving and the heat that was being generated by the parasite stopped. It seems that lowering the core temperature of the host froze the invader.

GM Wombat

Tija raised one eyebrow as she watched the body and parasites tendrils. She certainly hadn’t expected such a drastic change. “Maybe I shouldn’t have lowered to temperature quite that much,” she muttered under her breath as she flipped open her tricorder to do an in-depth scan of the corpse and the parasite. A bit louder she, she continued, “But at least he isn’t a danger for the crew anymore. Though I’d rather not have to take such extreme measures with Torrirs and Osten. The last thing I want to do is kill either of them.” While she talked the moved the tricoder wand slowly down the body, trying to find out if the parasite was actually still alive and just frozen, or of she had killed it.

~Lt. Tija, Asst. CMO

Garth’s bushy eyebrows raised in surprise at the efficacy of the treatment. “Well done,” he exclaimed in a paternal tone. Then Garth abruptly turned back to the samples he had collected, the thought that they might be dangerous if left unattended just occurring to him. Sticking all three petri dishes in a containment cambering, Garth then used a set of medical tongs to gingerly pick up Richards’ dismembered arm and put it with the rest of the detached parts of the parasite. “Computer, lower the humidity within the containment chamber to 0% and the temperature to 0°C.” He hoped that would neutralize them in case they were primed to reanimate.

(Lt. J.g. Garth, CSO)

OOC: Just so I am clear, you aren’t trying to put the body/parasite in statsis, correct?

IC: The hand also slowed its movement as the air and cold dried it out. Apparently the environmental adjustments aboard the Potterfield were to make the space habitable to whatever this is.

GM Wombat

OOC: Correct. Aizala just tried more or less the first thing that popped into her mind to reduce the fever and keep the parasite from growing. ~Silke

Emmy stood back and watched the two officers work with interest. Shortly, however, her reverie was interrupted by the chirp of her comm badge.

=/\= NE Uhoh to Captain Davis. Ma’am, you better get back to the bridge, there’s something you need to hear. =/\=

=/\= I’m on my way. =/\=

She briefly nodded at the CSO and the CMO as she spun on her heel and made her way to the bridge.

Davis, CO