Posted by Commander Balfor Kolar (XO/CSO) in Medical Preparedness Drill for the XO

Posted by Lieutenant Allison Scott (CMO) in Medical Preparedness Drill for the XO

Posted by Commander Balfor Kolar (XO/CSO) in Medical Preparedness Drill for the XO
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Allison Scott looked at her watch. She had sent a memorandum out several weeks ago to random crew members about the emergency preparedness medical drill. On the Ogawa, they had performed these drills a few times but every port was a medical emergency and no one tended to be shooting at them. On the Saracen, they had red alert drills for when people were shooting at them but never casualty drills. This was the perfect combination of both and would give her staff a chance to see her not as the “other doctor” but as the medical chief.

The alarm dinged on her watch and Ally hit the pre-recorded message programmed into the ship.

=/\=Commander Balfor Kolar =/\= The artificial voice piped through his comm badge. It carried the slightly up beat voice of a woman. =/\=The Emergency Preparedness Drill is now commencing. You have been assigned Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare condition that disrupts your brain’s ability to process sensory input. The disruption affects how you perceive the size of things you see around you, the feel or look of your own body, or both. It can also distort your sense of reality. There are many ways this condition can present itself but ultimately yours will be found out to be the onset of Influenza

It was out of character for Kolar to display irritation so he didn’t. Even without a witness he just blinked once firmly. He took a deep breath. A good drill was good preparation for an actual emergency.

To make this as realistic as possible, a list of symptoms for you to report are included below. You may experience:

1. Disturbances in self-perception. People with this have trouble correctly perceiving the size and feel of their own body (either the whole body or just specific parts). It also changes your sense of reality, your ability to feel connected to your body and your emotions, and the passage of time.

2. Disturbances in visual processing. This affects how your brain processes what you see around you such as
   -Changes in size. (Objects may appear larger (macropsia) or smaller (micropsia) than they actually are.)
   -Changes in distance. Objects may appear closer (pelopsia) or farther away (teleopsia) than they actually are.
   -Changes in both size and distance. Objects may appear smaller and seem to be moving farther away (porropsia).
   -People appearing smaller than they actually are. This is known as Lilliputianism (pronounced “lil-ip-yew-shun-ism”). This -gets its name from the fictional, tiny residents of the island of Lilliput from the 1726 fantasy novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift.
   -Changes in object appearance. Objects can appear distorted. Straight lines can look wavy or squiggly. Lines that are level vertically or horizontally can look skewed or slanted.

3. Combined symptoms. This is when you experience symptoms that affect both your self-perception and visual processing.

At the sound of the tone, please call the medical staff and report your injury. Thank you in advance for your time=/\=

Ally Scott CMO

OOC: Ooooh I’m really excited to see how this plays out!!!!

Captain Daniel “DaVinci” Colter
CO/CIO USS Saracen
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Forcing himself to get fully into character he reached slowly for his comm badge as if he thought it might move.

=^=Balfor to sickbay,=^= He started then paused.

=/\=Sickbay=/\= Ally responded in a chipper tone.

=^=I’d like to report… that is to say, that my left arm has swollen to approximately 50% larger than its typical mass.=^=

Ally recognized the voice but the statement left her with many questions. The XO didn’t seem like the type to drink but the quiet and reserved ones typically were. =/\=Like just the arm or has the swelling gone to your chest?=/\=

=^=If it wouldn’t be difficult, I don’t want to be crass, could a medical officer attend to me, Damn it doctor, move your…=^= he disconnected the line. Moving to the mirror he stared at it as he would suspect someone who was having perception difficulties would.

Kolar

Ally looked at the doctors in the next room. She could send someone else but the XO seemed to be rather irritated and there were few reasons one’s body swelled up. Not bothering to reply, she took off to the XO’s location. Two minutes later, Ally rang the door chime and waited to be let in.

Ally Scott CMO

“Enter, please on the double,” Kolar turned to face the entrance and lifted his arm that didn’t seem 50% larger than the other. Twisting it back and forth so she could get a good look at it. “This looks bad to me, am I in trouble?” He questioned the doctor.

Kolar

Ally entered the room in a brisk pace but slowed considerably as she closed the space between her and the XO. “I don’t know,” she stated in”How does it look to me,” Balfor stated as if Ally was a first year, wet behind the ears med student. “My arm looks like it is a balloon,” he held it out for Ally to get a better look but if she could not see the differenc in the size then the good doctor needed old timey glasses.

Kolar XO a inquisitive and slightly confused tone. Every medical drill she had been on had been highly elaborate and given her immediate clues to what was happening. The science chief had been unable to bear weight on a leg and the CE was covered in goo with visible burns. The XO looked fit as a fiddle. “How bad does it look to you?” The way he was moving his arm indicated the issue that was there but it could have been anything from his arm to his shoulder.

Scott CMO

“How does it look to me, Do you think I’m a buffoon?” Balfor stated as if Ally was a first year, wet behind the ears med student. “My arm looks like it is the size of a balloon,” he held it out for Ally to get a better look but if she could not see the difference in the size then the good doctor needed old timey glasses.

Kolar XO

Ally had been running drills for the past month. They had run from broken bones to levodian flu. This one was far more perplexing. Her instructors at the academy were always lecturing about not jumping to exotic diagnosis when there tended to be a far more simple one. Right now the term seeing pink elephants came to mind. The phrase “seeing pink elephants” was a euphemism for hallucinations caused by heavy drinking or the use of narcotics. Kolar did not seem like the type to imbibe but none of this made any sense. Pulling out her tricorder, Ally scanned his arm and nothing came up out of the ordinary. Kolar was clearly upset about his arm so Ally focused on bedside manner instead of traditional medicine.

“Of course not but your uniform shirt can hide things at times. Would you mind removing it?”

Ally watched as the XO took off his shirt more evaluating his motor movements over any injury.

Scott CMO

Balfor pulled his shirt off cleanly in one swift motion over his head. He held his hand out and yanked harder to get the fabric down over his swollen arm. He stared as he pulled. He felt the friction from dragging the oversized arm through the normal sized sleeve.

Surprisingly it did not hurt in the least. This perplexed him some given the size of the appendage. Logic would dictate that it would hurt or at least be stiff given the amount of swelling but it seemed to just slip off his arm. Looking down at his bicep, Kolar let out a frustrated sigh. Standard uniform was the colored shirt with a black t-shirt or tank underneath. Today he wished he was wearing the tank since the black t-shirt was stretched to capacity around his bicep. He wasn’t a vain man but the last thing he wanted was to be prancing around shirtless in front of a junior officer. “Do you want me to take the t-shirt off too?”

Kolar was surprisingly muscled for someone who held three doctorates and virtually no honors in physical or athletic endevors.

Kolar XO

Kolar was very well built and his question caught Ally off guard. “Um yes,” she replied before stammering out, “no.” It was uncommon for Ally to get flustered but it was also uncommon to see your XO looking very un-XO like stripping off his shirt and asking about removing more clothes. “No,” she shook her head as if to clear it before focusing back on him as a doctor. “That won’t be necessary for now.” Ally focused all her attention on his arm. After inspecting it for several moments, she looked up at him.

“So what were you doing before you noticed the issue with your arm? Were you in the gym or maybe the lounge?” There was absolutely nothing wrong with his arm. The XO’s system was scanning clear of drugs and booze but he was acting like he was under the influence.

Scott CMO

If this was not a drill, Kolar might not find the situation as amusing. Since it was a drill, he could find some humor in it. It was not often a junior officer stood before the XO gently probing one’s sobriety. “Are you accusing your XO of being drunk and delusional Lieutenant,” he asked.

Kolar XO