Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Elaine Janvier (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)

Posted by Ensign Charlie Bailey (Doctor) in Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)
In the back of sickbay, away from the commotion in majors, Charlie was on her own, steadily working through the less serious cases. As she moved on to her next patient, Charlie could feel the painkiller starting to wear off. Pushing it aside she quickly scanned the young security officer in front of her who had a minor concussion and fractured ankle. He was drifting in and out of consciousness but stable. As she had another quick probe of her abdomen, she briefly thought about asking the CMO to check her over but she knew that Janvier was busy with a patient. As she turned back and administered a hypo to her patient, the young man’s eyes suddenly snapped open and he instinctively thrashed out in defence, catching Charlie on her injured side, before passing out again. She cried out in shock as one of her fractured ribs dislodged and punctured her lung, nicking her spleen on the way, and sent a violent shockwave of pain through her body.

From around the corner in the main sickbay, Enj’s ears suddenly pricked up and he let out a little whimper as he sat up and looked towards the minor treatment area, his canine intuition and senses picking up that something was wrong.

With no one else around, Charlie frantically gripped onto the bed as it suddenly got harder to breathe. She could feel all the energy draining out of her body as her heart began to slow and after a few moments she collapsed to her knees, still holding onto the bed. With a trembling hand, she went to reach for her comm badge but her vision was already starting to blur as she began to lose consciousness. As the strength left her arms she lost her grip on the biobed and slumped silently to the floor.

In the main sickbay, Enj suddenly jumped up and barked loudly as he ran over to Janvier and pawed her leg urgently. Looking up at her he barked again and with his teeth began pulling forcefully at her trouser leg.

Dr Bailey

Absorbed in her work Elaine had stopped paying much attention to Enj until he barked. She paused her work as she felt him tugging on her leg, realising he wasn’t going to stop when he barked a second time, she set her tools down. “What is it?” she asked, exhasperation clear in her voice. She was in the middle of treating a patient in the middle of a medical emergency. Now wasn’t a good time for him to be acting odd.

Noticing he’d got Janvier’s attention, Enj barked again and trotted a few paces away. He stopped and looked over his shoulder, one black and one white eye fixed on the CMO. When she didn’t follow he trotted back to where she stood and pulled at her trouser leg again before letting go and walking a little further.

Elaine wanted to roll her eyes. “Not now Enj, you can show me whatever it is you want to show me later,” she said firmly. Turning back to her patient and beginning to pick up her tools, resuming her work on her patient, thinking on how oddly Enj was behaving. He liked to misbehave but in an entertaining way rather than a distruptive one. He hadn’t tried to distract her from her work since he was a puppy. It must be the excitement she thought to herself, With intruders on the ship and so many people in sickbay. But any excuse for him that she could come up with went out the window, when Enj barked. She turned and mutter curses under her breath gave chase. Following him towards the back of Sickbay…

Lt. (J.g.) Janvier & Enj
CMO

As Charlie drifted in and out of consciousness, her breathing steadily became more labored, almost as though she was having to breathe through a miniscule straw. As her eyes fluttered open momentarily, she felt the pain searing through her body again and she tried to call for help which just came out as a quivering moan. Knowing she didn’t have long before she slipped into unconsciousness again, she tried in vain to move, letting out a pained cry which was a little louder than the first, before collapsing back on the deck in exhaustion.

Dr Bailey