Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in side - sim: Another New Doctor

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Aasrel Izei (Chief Medical Officer) in side - sim: Another New Doctor

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in side - sim: Another New Doctor
Bethany grumbled as she stared at the empty hypo in her hand. Of course Ryley had left to parts unknown. When this mission was over, she’d hunt him down. Assuming he hadn’t crossed the Klingons or someone else by then. Of course she didn’t blame him, who would want to stay on this suicide mission.

He was the only one who made this whole thing bearable. She slapped the hypo into her hand as if it would dislodge more medication to be dispensed. Like it was an old Heinz 57 glass ketchup bottle. But no good. It was empty. Now she would have to go to sickbay and explain to yet another doctor what was wrong with her, and hope they read whatever Ryley put in her file. She might really lose her temper if the new doc told her it was all in her head and turned her away.

She left her quarters and made her way to sickbay and entered and looked around. She stopped the first person she saw, “I need to see the doc.”

Gadi, CoS

“Of course,” said the nurse she’d stopped. Then she made a face, like she didn’t really want to bother ‘the doc’ on duty. The new CMO… had not made a great first impression upon his arrival in Sickbay. No, he was already known as moody and snappy.

She led Bethany back to a biobed. “Have a seat. There doctor will be right with you.” Then, with what might’ve been a grimace, she moved off towards the CMO’s office.

Bethany sat on the biobed and gave the nurse a smile, “Thank you.” She had a headache again, and she was dreading have to explain again.

From the direction the nurse had gone came a betazoid doctor, about the same height as Bethany, with short brown hair, carefully styled with some kind of gel or mousse. His right hand remained behind his back, a PaDD in his left. “Lieutenant Commander Gadi? Is that right? What brings you in today?” He asked, scowling down at the PaDD and then looking at Bethany with a look of forced positivity.

~ Izei, CMO

Great a Betazoid. Here would come the attempts at contact and no reaction from her, no recpricle sharing of one’s thoughts and feelings. Then the questions and offense, and then when she explained, pity and dismisall, if she was lucky. Bethany schooled her reaction and burried her feeings deeply. At least she had managed that training. “That’s me doc. Your predicessor put me on a medication cocktail, and I ran out. I’m supposed to take it twice a day.”

Aasrel was far from mastering the art of judging emotions from one’s face and body language rather than intrinsically knowing it through empathy. And so he entirely missed her disdain of other Betazoids. He gave no reaction to her at all. “I see.” He stated dryly, as he read what was supposed to be in the cocktail off the PaDD.

A betazoid… Aasrel had the issue of other Betazoids expecting telepathic and empathic contact, it had only happened once or twice and it was incredibly uncomfortable. He’d lost his abilities a handful of months ago, and it still felt as though a big part of him were missing. He felt disconnected and lonely and disoriented. He avoided reminders of it. “How long have you been out?”

Bethany held out the small medical box with the empty vials and hypo. Her records would show that Dr Ryley has put together a cocktail to clear the excess psilosynine out of her blood stream. The full report would show she reported headaches and lack of sleep and a constant elevated heart rate. She’d attempted cutting caffine and sugar intake, and extensive meditation routines. None made a difference. She was kept in medical for observation. Ryley found that she also had an elevated white blood cell count and a persistant low grade fever. She was also violently scratching in her sleep (under the use of an alpha wave inducer) along her arteries and viens. Ryley found that her paracortex was dormant (which was normal for Bethany) but her glands had started producing an excessive amount of psilosynine, an since it wasn’t used it was seeping into her blood stream. Causing an autoimmune response. Gadi’s human half was trying to kill her Betazoid half.

Gadi, CoS

Could she sense his discomfort, borderline panic? She hadn’t mentioned it, if she had. She hadn’t mentioned anything about it. Oh, phew, right there. Despite her overproduction of psilosynine, her empathy and telepathy weren’t functioning. The entire paracortex was dormant, the same as his own. Maybe he could hand off this case…? There were other doctors aboard. Maybe he could do that.

Aasrel took the box into his right hand as he finished skimming the report. The plastic of the case clinked against a metallic structure attached to his hand that extended up his sleeve. His gaze flicked toward it at the sound, and then quickly away.

“You have an autoimmune disease.” He commented offhandedly, as if uncomfortable. “I’ll get these refilled for you.” He barely said anything else to her. Barely looked at her. Then he was gone, disappearing into the bustle of the sickbay.

He refilled the vials and loaded up the hypo for her. He had a duty to treat her. There was no choice. This autoimmune condition, an undefined autoimmune condition caused by her split heritage, was going to kill her if answers weren’t found. He didn’t want to think about it. What if she was able to recover her abilities, but his were gone forever? The thought burned in his mind and he had to push it away.

With a deep breath and then a sigh of resignation he returned to her biobed nearly fifteen minutes later. “Apologies for the delay.” He handed her the medical box, the vials and hypo stored neatly inside. Then he stood for a moment, as if debating with himself. “What… What was doctor....” He glanced at the file again, “Ryley investigating as a cause for this condition? How have these meds been working to treat it?”

~ Izei, CMO