Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Lake Holway (Doctor) in Sickbay-Hidden Agenda

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Avik (XO) in Sickbay-Hidden Agenda [snip] : : : : : : : : : : : : : Kayla was there, too. She was helping one of the other injured This was right up her alley. Recently she had worked with battle damaged crew in the last mission. She was using hr medical tricorder to scan her patients to determine which of the others was the more seriously wounded. But it was the ones with broken bones who concerned her the most. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Ens Kayla Lazarus : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The man from earlier, his arm still cradled, stepped forward. His eyes nervously looked over Lazarus’ shoulder into the direction his fellow crewmate disappeared to. Fingers wrung about his other hand while he ignored the pain throbbing through the muscles. He hadn’t noticed the bone was becoming displaced and farther damaged. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : “Is she going to be alright?” He asked with worry lacing his tone. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : He didn’t seem ready to receive treatment until his question was answered. : : : : ------- : : : :
[snip] OOC: Updated One shard left. The last shard is still in position near the internal thoracic artery (nearest the heart) and require need some tissue to be repaired. : : : : : : : : IC: The first male nurse nodded then moved for the tanks. He quickly pulled them close to the biobed and hooking them into the machine, holding the oxygen mask in his hand. Closely he watched the pulse for any changes in it. : : : : : : : : As Holway’s scope reached for the bone, trying to clasp it. It slipped from the tip once falling farther down into the rib cavity. The patient’s pulse jerked rapidly, but slowly began to steady again. Thankfully no tissue had been torn and the lung was intact as far as the doctor could tell. She had one more chance before it fell far too deep that she would need to crack the chest in order to retrieve it. : : : : –Janice B : : : : : : Unaware of it, Lake drew her breath in sharply when the bone shard slipped from the tweezing end of the scope. There was a general breath held between the three medical people in the seconds it took for the fragment to stop moving again. Luckily, it hadn’t nicked another vein or artery. : : : : : : “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do now.” She looked at the female nurse. I want you to apply the tissue regenerator to the lung as soon as I get hold of that piece of bone again. I want the tissue in the area healed before I pull that shard out, just in case its plugging a tear we don’t know about.” : : : : : : While Lake maneuvered the tweezer into place once more, and got a fairly firm hold on the bone, the nurse collected a tissue regen unit and applied its beam to the lung tissue. Working together, they were able to extract the fragment and then they tried for the third and last one. : : : : : : —Holway, DR

The nurse nodded as she grabbed the tissue regenerator. She stepped closer until she beside the doctor, pausing long enough to check the settings and make last-minute corrections. When she finished, her eyes turned to the doctor to indicate she was ready. Her right hand held it ready at her side while she watched Lake grip the fragment then pulled it clear of the tissue. As predicted, it sliced into the tissue on its exit. Without wasting time, ignoring the spike in the patient’s pulse, the NE pushed her tissue regeneration into the open cavity then began to heal the damage.

Slowly the pulse stabilized when the damage no longer existed. Relief washed over the NE’s expression as she wiped the tip clean, reddened from her sloppiness.

Now all that remained was the last fragment. Thankfully it hadn’t moved during the procedure.

–Janice B

“One more, that’s all.” Holway looked to her team as she guided the scope, hopefully for the last time that day, to the location of the last bone shard. Softly biting her bottom lip behind the mask, she made tiny adjustments to the angle of the instrument until it was perfectly aligned with the sliver. Ever so carefully, the tweezered end opened and grasped the last fragment. With extreme concentration, Lake guided the medical tool until it was outside of the body, then took a deep breath and sighed. “I think we’ve got it all under control now.”

—Holway, DR

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