Posted by Lieutenant Solal Segal (Oncology and Immunology) in Side Sim: The Confounding Symptoms
It was a few weeks after Solal had asked Alexis every question about pets and why people have them as well as his meet and greet with Frigga. Several more letters had been exchanged with V’alura, not that he spoke much about that, though he had mentioned she was sick lately. His tiredness had gotten worse since then, now he wasn’t making it through full workdays without a large amount of caffeine, considering because of his Vulcan biology, caffeine had little effect on him. Even the placebo effect was better than nothing.

That day, he was working in his office. He’d woken that morning with a temperature of 93.5… a two-point-two-degree raise from the Vulcan ‘normal’ temperature of 91.3. His throat was scratchy but he’d just taken an over-the-counter cold medication to hold himself over through his shift and taken himself off patient duties. The cold meds were only a six-hour remedy though, and already beginning to wear off, so as he worked, he tried to hide a cough he could not get to go away, on his sixth cup of caffeinated tea, which he usually never, ever drank. Caffeine kept one from being calm and relaxed.

~ Solal

Alexis was always aware of things going on around her. It was just a matter of whether or not her brain deemed those details significant. So at first she didn’t notice that Solal was acting different. They spoke frequently about patients and duty rotations and various things work related. Once or twice he mentioned his sibling and that she was ill. Somewhere in the caverns of her brain she registered he was drinking a lot of tea more tea than usual and he seemed…tired. They were similar that way, on duty anyway. However it was Solal taking himself off duty that drew her attention. There was a shuffling around of assigning appointments. It wasn’t a problem, but when Alexis checked the reason and it was because Solal had taken himself off patient rounds because he was feeling unwell she got up from her desk and went to see him.

She found him in his office and knocked on the door frame. “Dr Solal.”

Bonner