Posted by Lieutenant Revna Edman (Counselor) in The Harshest of Reality Checks

Posted by Lieutenant Auleraine Brison (Engineering Officer) in The Harshest of Reality Checks

Posted by Lieutenant Revna Edman (Counselor) in The Harshest of Reality Checks
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻

SNIP
“Ok, Now you just relax and let that kick in. I’m gonna take you to medical but I want you to open your eyes, first. Can you do that for me?” She ran the scanner over the prone woman to be sure she was stable enough to transport.

NE Danica
Duty nurse

Revna heard her call for the doctor. For one very heartbreaking moment Revna wished she was back on Centurion. Not that the doctors here weren’t the top of their fields, but she was scared and desperately wanted people she knew, doctors she knew, that had done these types of treatments and surgeries before. But the moment passed and she blinked her eyes open in the harsh light and looked at Danica. The dark ring around her vision was receding and some of the pain was easing as well.
Lt. Edman, Counselor

“Computer, lights to twenty percent. There you are.” The lights immediately dimmed. She took the woman’s hand and smiled. “Ok, I’m going to transport you to sickbay. I want you aware so you don’t panic, all right? Squeeze my hand if you understand. If you don’t squeeze, we’ll take you down the manually.”

By now Danica was glancing down at the constant refreshing stats. She wanted her oxygen level to stabilize in a proper level, and her heartrate as well.

NE Danica
Duty nurse

The tricorder would show that Revna’s cortisol levels were very elevated creating a spike in her adrenaline levels. Her heart rate was still elevated, but decreasing slightly with the sedative in her system. She was forcing slow breaths despite the rapid heart rate. And her breathing was deeper but that was only relative to what it had been just minutes before. Revna’s lungs wouldn’t allow for truly deep breaths, her blood oxygen was better, but her fingers and toes were still cold, but not totally numb anymore. She was still flexing her fingers trying to encourage the blood to flow faster. She flexed her fingers around Danica’s hand not really squeezing. She was starting to feel dizzy from the rush of oxygen entering her starving system.
Lt Edman, Counselor

Danica knew her job well. Seeing the focus in Revna’s eyes still glazed, she slowly lowered the flow of oxygen so it wasn’t so forced. Squeezing the woman’s hand in reassurance she answered the Doc. =^=Heart rate still elevated, coming down slowly. Oxygen level responding, also slow. Cortisone levels high due to adrenalin. Still breathing shallow. Permission to beam directly to sick bay?=^=

She smiled back down at Revna. “There… is that better?” She asked about the oxygen, her eyes darting around the room for discarded clothes. She was contemplating socks for the Counselor before beaming to medical. Though once there, heating pads could help warm extremities and ease circulation.

Danica
NE nurse

Revna was actually wearing very warm sweater like pajamas and socks already. She’d started doing that to help keep her body warm incase something like this happened. Much good it did her now. She closed her eyes adjusting to the lower pressure of the air and squeezed Danica’s hand in acknowledgement. Revna wanted Runa, but at the same time she didn’t. Runa was amazing and loved her dearly, but she was also a bit high strung at times. And there was no way to know how Runa would be if woken in the middle of the night for this. More strongly there was the memory of a warm hand holding hers, but even in this condition, Revna wouldn’t ask, she wouldn’t be that selfish. And then she wondered if she was too unfit for duty and would have to retire her commission after this.
Lt Edman, Couselor

Danica felt the squeeze and nodded. “All right. Well, we’re gonna get you straight to Medical. Doc should be meeting us there.” She tapped her comm and ordered the immediate site to site transfer. As transporter acknowledged, she kept a hold of Revna’s hand. “We’ll be there in a sec, Revna. I gotcha the whole way.” She was being as supportive as she could, despite knowing the woman was in pain and struggling. Once they were in medical, she could help her more.

NE Danica
Nurse

((leaving space for Doc or Revna to react… otherwise, we’re gonna be in Medical with Revna on the biobed))

The blue swirl engulfed them. It always amazed Revna that despite being torn apart into the endless number of atoms that made her herself her body could still register feeling and thought. This was no different and instead of an expected moment of stillness and calm there was still the endless struggle to breath and the pain and panic. A moment later Danica and Revna reappeared in sickbay. Revna closed her eyes, there wasn’t anything she could do at this point except continue to breath. The doctors would have to decide and she’d have the time to choose, or they would choose for her. She wanted Runa, but she’d only be in the way. And she had no way to ask for her, she had to breath instead. If it was bad the med staff would call her, so that was probably a good thing. If Runa showed up, Revna would know it was really bad.
Lt Edman, Counselor

Once they were settled, Danica set to making Revna more comfortable. The Doc would join them shortly, but the young woman wasn’t going to just stand around and do nothing. She got a blanket and set it to Revna’s usual body temp. It would warm or cool her till the oxygen in her body stabilized and her extremities weren’t so cold. She also set the breathing device on and fixed the setting so it wasn’t forcing air into her lungs faster or harder than she could handle. And she made sure the bed was barely reclined. Enough to keep Revna comfortable, but not too upright, or prone, to make breathing even more difficult.

As she did this, in a near matter of fact type of way that made it seem ordinary and not so pressing, she kept up her small chatter and soothing tones to help keep the Counselor as calm as she could. As she finished, she moved to Revna’s side and smiled. “There, hopefully that’s helping a bit more. I don’t want you to be scared. Doc will make you right as rain again, I am sure.” She smiled and held the woman’s left hand in her own to both keep a human contact with her for comfort, as well as help warm it.

NE Danica
Nurse