Posted by Captain Alexxander Ryley (Chief Medical Officer) in Side sim: Corridor wandering is good for the soul - Sickbay

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Side sim: Corridor wandering is good for the soul - Sickbay

Posted by Captain Alexxander Ryley (Chief Medical Officer) in Side sim: Corridor wandering is good for the soul - Sickbay
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Bethany looked at him, a bit serious, but with that ever present grin. “Jacket or shirt and jacket?” She unzipped the jacket and shrugged it off, draping it over the end of the bio bed. “I’m just not that kind of girl. You want the shirt too you’re gonna have to get us some privacy.”

Gadi, CoS

Ryley gave a soft chuckle. “Jacket will be fine.” He pressed the bell over her heart and listened a moment, “Besides you and I just met. You could at least offer to buy me a drink first before you start asking for privacy.”

“Well when we’re done here I’m happy to oblige.” Then turning serious, “Doc if you can figure out what’s wrong with me, I’ll buy you a drink every night for a year.”

The corners of his mouth turned up. “I’ll hold you to that. Now shh I’m trying to listen.”

He lifted the stethoscope and moved behind Bethany before placing the device on her back. “Deep breath in and out again.” He said

Ryley
MD

Bethany took in a deep breath, forcing herself to draw it out, to breath slow despite the way her instinct was to breath rapidly to meet the rhythm of her heart beat.

Gadi, CoS

A frown crossed Ryley’s features as he removed the device from his ears and pulled it to hang around his neck instead. Coming back around to face her he picked up the tricorder and removing the hand held part checked the balance on it. He pulled a face as if he was unhappy but pointed the scanner at Bethany and moved it across her from head to toe and back up again.

“You said this started when you first came aboard. Did you have any other symptoms?or anything else that stated at that time?”

Ryley
MD

OOC: missed this..sorry
IC: Bethany thought back, and slowly shook her head. “No. I first noticed it about 2 weeks after I came on board. The rapid heart beat and…rapid respiration too. But if I pay attention I can bring that down.” If it had started after they arrived at the station she would say Elias had slipped her something.

Ooc: Can I get some scan results please!

The tricorder showed elevated markers and an elevated white blood cell count along with a low grade fever. Additionally her endorphin levels were high.

Gadi

Still frowning Ryley lifted his hand and placed the side of it, along the thumb and right index finger, onto her forehead. “You have a fever.” He said glancing back down at the results. He seemed ponderous for a moment, tapping the tricorder thoughtfully he brought up the scan results from the security chiefs last exam and compared them. “That could be a result of infection…” he muttered partly to her and partly to himself.

Limping away briefly he collected some more equipment and returned. “I’m going to need to run more in-depth scans, but before that I’d like to draw some blood.” He held up the phlebotomy hypo and gave it a little shake.

Ryley
MD

“Go ahead doc.” She turned slightly giving him access to her shoulder for the blood draw. She held off asking him what was wrong with her. Obviously he didn’t know or he wouldn’t be running more tests.

Gadi

Pressing the hypo into her shoulder he initiated the draw, switching an empty tube into the slot when the first was full. When he was finished he put both vials down a moment and began fiddling with the panel above the biobed.

“Lie back and make yourself comfortable. It’s going to run a full work up scan set and some more detailed scans so it’ll take about three quarters of an hour to an hour to complete the tests. I hope you haven’t got somewhere better to be.”

Bethany lowered herself to bio bed and stretched out. “Nope, I’m supposed to be sleeping. So unless the ship goes to red alert or the Cpt summons me, Lt Ridad will take care of it.” It was hard to lay flat and ‘relax’ with your heart beating at insane rhythms for no reason. It was why she was up walking half the night instead of sleeping. If nothing else though, Bethany was disciplined and stayed there without complaint.

He waited for her to get comfortable before initiating the scans. Taking the vials over to the analysis unit he slotted them in and began programming what he was looking for. After a few moment while he watched the computer work he turned back to Bethany and sat down on a rolling stool near her biobed.

“So how’d the non telepath thing work out for you?” He asked conversationally.

Ryley
MD

Bethany shrugged a shoulder, “We left Betazed, after the Dominion Occupation, before I was old enough for my telepathy to ‘turn on’. We lived on Earth and no one expected me to be telepathic, except my father. It was never really obvious that I was a non-telepath until I got to the Academy. The eyes gave it away, and then people assumed observations I made were because I was reading their minds. That assumption has been both useful and annoying in my work. One of these days I’ll get around to having the color permanently altered.”

Gadi, CoS

Ryley considered her. “Why? It gives you an advantage surely?” He asked

Ryley
MD

Bethy’s head rocked back and forth on the biobed as if weighing the advantage. “Sometimes. Someone who isn’t familiar with Betazoids won’t notice that my insights are simply good observation skills. Those that are will know quite quickly that I’m faking it. When you spend a lot of time in deep cover, Doc, a misstep like that can be costly.”

Gadi, CoS

Ryley puffed air between both cheeks then let out the breath. “I’d have also assumed that the eyes being a give away if your species would have made the less observant individual assume you could read them and high tail it.” He said then frowned again as something on the readouts caught his attention for a second.

Ryley
MD

Bethany hummed agreement. “It does. Which can be useful and problematic itself. I spend a lot of time with colored contacts. Since I’ve been on board, this has been the longest I have gone with my natural eye color in years.” She yawned, the four gods she was tired, and restless. She felt like she should be running. Following his gaze she turned her neck at an odd angle to see what he was looking at. “What is it?”

Gadi, CoS

“No infection…that’s just weird.” He said frowning as if the readouts were displeasure personified. “Huh…” he pulled his bottom lip and turned to look at the blood readouts as they processed. “Infection made sense…you’re hormone levels are high…and the white blood cell count is high but the infection markers are absent.”

Ryley
MD

Bethany didn’t quite suppress a sigh, “So there’s nothing wrong with me and you’re gonna send me home, right?”

Gadi, CoS