Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side sim: The Follow-Up

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Side sim: The Follow-Up

Posted by Commander Roman Alden (First Officer & Chief Science Officer) in Side sim: The Follow-Up
Roman was busy. Luckily. Even when he wasn’t busy, he had “something to do”. He made sure not to neglect Rand, like he had in the past, but for the past week, he had been working as much as he could, filling his vacant time with either reports he was “behind” on, or meetings he had been putting off. He was running out of those meetings. Notes though, and experiments, and… departmental reviews. Those he could fill infinite time with, and that was his plan. It had been just about six months since the attempt on his life, and he knew what that meant, and he wasn’t looking forward to it. He hadn’t stepped foot in sickbay since that day, unless he absolutely had to, as XO. And even then, he would spend as little time in there as he could, and then quickly leave. He knew Randy would eventually remind him, but he hoped Rand didn’t remember. He could put it off longer if it was just Randy bugging him about it.

~ Roman

Rand was doing better, but some things still slipped through the cracks. Normally she kept track of everything. But when Roman was released from sickbay and his treatment plan was set up, Rand had been still having trouble remembering the day of the week, much less keeping up with the tasks for the next day. Their roles had reversed, now it was Roman keeping track of Rand’s appointments and the medication she needed. Making sure she took those meds and made her appointments with Elbbirt and made her OT appointments too. A long term side effect of her concussion was her balance and coordination was off. When she’d been cleared to run again…it had taken one day before that was stopped. Simple yoga stretches were stopped too because she kept getting dizzy and falling over. Dr Sovak was working on helping her with her vestibular and proprioception senses.

Rand’s memory wasn’t quite what it was before, but the more she worked the better it was getting, though she still had progress to make. Even though it frustrated her and made her really sad, reading lines was helping. Though she couldn’t see that, Roman and Randy could. So Rand had no idea that Roman had an appointment coming up and that he’d missed it several times already. Elbbirt nor Randy wanted to ask Rand about it because they weren’t sure how stressed out it would make her.

So Randy showed up in the gym, at Rand’s OT appt. Roman usually went with her because afterwards she seemed to really struggle. Rand had a bad habit of using the sessions as a marker of her failure rather than her improvement. He entered the gym and looked around.

Randy

Roman showed up to all of her appointments, if he could. Every time, like she would do for him. He was glad she was doing better and he often talked to Randy about her progress. When Randy showed up in the gym, Roman was sitting near the edge, watching Rand. He did not seem to notice Randy. He had a PaDD with him, to read, but he was currently more focused on Rand.

~ Roman

Randy made his way over and sat down. “How’s she doing today?” Today Savok had her on the balance board for the first time. Rand clearly remembered Roman having to use this thing for exercises for his leg, and her trying it out once and falling on her face. She’d laughed at herself then, today she was upset. Frustrated and looked like she might cry. The board was making her dizzy. The only thing she had to do was stay on it for 30 seconds at a time. Her internal equilibrium was so off, it wasn’t happening. Savok assured her it would be difficult today, but would get better. She needed to practice, but should not do so alone for her safety. He was so annoyingly calm and matter of fact about it. Nodding every time she fell like he expected her to not do better, and then he would offer her both hands to help her up and get back on the board.

Randy