Posted by Ensign Randal ‘Randy’ Farquharson (Head Nurse) in Crashing the pad (Tag Randy, Closed Thread)

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Crashing the pad (Tag Randy, Closed Thread)
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Rand walked into her shared quarters with Randy, not paying attention to anything around her. She was mad. She stomped over to the small kitchen area, where she could easily prepare simple snacks or coffee for the CO and XO if required. She pulled out cheeze-whiz and crackers and went and threw herself down on her bed. She grabbed Iòna, her stuffed Kelpie, tucked it into an elbow and popped the cap off the cheeze-whiz. She was muttering curses in Gaelic and totally ignoring the crackers and just oozing the cheeze-whiz straight into her mouth. The longer she laid their, the louder her muttering got, and the more colorful it became.

Rand

Randy strode into their quarters, his first day as head nurse was a colorful one to say the least he walked in and started to go “Oh. My. God. Rand you would not believe the things that medical has to deal with and I’m a therapist, not a nurse!” He said as he turned to the dulcet tones of Gaelic swearing as he said, “Dè fo Shealbh.....”. He grabbed the can out of her hand as he sat next to her, a wonderful spray of what claimed to be cheeze entering his mouth as he said, “You’re mad… what happened…”

Randy

Rand glared at him as he stole her cheeze-whiz. After he helped himself to some she snatched it back and started to squeeze more out but instead, finger still on the dispenser, she started waving the can around, thrusting it this way and that, to make her point. “Randy you are a nurse. Well a Nurse Practitioner. Which means you are just as good as a doctor. I know you prefer to be a therapist, but you are an incredible nurse too. You are just good at helping people.” She was avoiding his question.

She was mad, but more she was hurt and feeling sorry for herself. And it was the same old issue. People belittling her and her job because they saw what she did as useless, pointless, or interfering. She would never tell them how to do her job. Everyone else sat in the rec hall complaining of long hours and no time. But they sat there for at least a couple hours. Rand might (if she could work up the nerve to go to the rec hall) sit 20 minutes if she was lucky before being called back to work. She was the reason they had their favorite meals, new games and music tapes in the rec hall, weird equipment that was at a premium to get, personal items got approved on cargo requests. They could not do what she did. But she was treated like…like less than crew. And it was all supposed to be okay because they used stupid terms of endearment that made her uncomfortable and nauseous.

“Tell me all about your day. I want the gossip.” She could hope that Randy’s love of gossip would distract him from her mood.

Rand