Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Leah Hart (Nurse Practitioner/Counseling) in En Route- Mental Health Priorities

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He nodded, but it was an empty gesture. He was unlikely to actually do that, not just because he didn’t want a psych in the first place, but because travelling across six ships, she was likely to be busy enough.

~ Roman

Did she accept it? Maybe not, but there was only so much she could push add she knew they had reached their limit. [o]Alright.[o] Leah gave him an encouraging smile. [o]Believe it or not, I am more optimistic than I was earlier in our conversation. I know it might not feel like much, but you did take a step forward today and that took courage and I won’t view it as anything less than that. Neither should you.[o]

She looked like she might close the call, but she leaned in and eyed in intently with all the knowing of someone who had dealt wth many a recalcitrant patient. [o]Call me. It’s a part of my job. I didn’t go into nursing or Starfleet expecting routine schedules.[C] Leah winked and then the screen returned to its usual standby mode.

~Leah Hart, NP

It was maybe an hour or so later that Hart’s comms chirped with a call from the Sentinel, marked from Cmdr Roman Alden and jr Lt. Miranda Farquharson.

Yeoman Rand