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

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

Ryley paused in his musings and gave Bethany a look as if he thought she was insane. “Are you kidding? There’s obviously something going wrong with you. You have an idiopathic heart rate issue, a fever, all of the hall marks of infection and no infection. I don’t like idiopathic things and I don’t dismiss symptoms because I don’t have a diagnosis. That’s what differential diagnostics is for. Any idiot can see somethings wrong…the question is what is it.” He looked ponderous again.

“What looks like an infection, sounds like an infection but isn’t an infection…” he said.

Ryley
MD

Bethany shrugged, “A duck?” She shifted on the biobed, getting restless, her heart still racing and the longer she forced her self to stay still the worse the need to get up and move got. She wasn’t sure if it was really getting worse physically or just a mental thing. She folded one arm behind her head and the other rubbed across her forehead, her head was starting to throb.

Gadi, CoS

Her movement distracted Ryley from his pensive state. “Does your head hurt?” He asked and standing opened the medical tricorder to scan her head and neck.

Ryley
MD

“Yes, it’s throbbing.” Bethany tipped her head from side to side trying to stretch her neck, and relieve the tight muscles there. “And my neck and shoulders hurt, but pretty sure that’s from tension.” Then again…her sleeplessness and fatigue weren’t. She had an infection that wasn’t an infection.

Gadi, CoS

Without a word Ryley produced another hypo which he pressed against her neck. “This should help. I’m not going to lie this isn’t going to be wave a magic tricorder over it and it’ll go away sort of thing. But I do believe you, I’m going to need to do some research and get back to you.” He said.

Ryley
MD

Bethany nodded, “So does that mean you’re done with me for now, or to get out while you work?” Then Bethany asked something she never thought she would. “Hey, Ryley, would a sleep aid, really mess me up? I’m exhausted.”

Gadi, CoS

Looking ponderous Ryley said “ehh, no. You can stay here if you want. I may just not be the best of conversation at points.” He raised an eyebrow at her second point and looked back at the readings. “I wouldn’t think so…possibly but if it does we’d have a new symptom to work with, I can give you something but You can either stay here for observation or I’d fit a recording device that will alert me or someone in sickbay if your heart rate does a dive bomb. Up to you kid.”

Ryley
MD

Kid? Oh that hurt. If Bethany was honest though, she felt a little like a kid if she let herself be scared over it. A monitor to alert if her heart did a dive bomb. No thanks. “I think I’ll stay here, and if I’m actually asleep I won’t care about the conversation. I’ll make the most cooperative patient.”

Gadi, CoS

Ryley’s expression turned sympathetic, just for a split second, and then it was gone again. Or maybe it was a trick of the light, who knew? He limped off across sickbay and began rummaging. “I don’t get the impression that you were being an uncooperative patient.” He was back with a device in hand and a pillow and blanket under his arm. He dropped the blanket over the bottom of the bed and handed her the pillow as he continued. “That being said if you decide to bite me I’m going to be very disappointed.”

He was fiddling with a metal device that he then reached over and placed onto Bethany’s forehead. “Alpha wave inducer, should keep you out for a while.” He didn’t activate it just yet, letting her get comfortable again first,

Ryley
MD