Posted by Lieutenant Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Attack at City Center: Four Days Later - Protests (Lucas’ Room) // TAG CIA, Police, CCDA, Medical, and anyone interested

Posted by Civilian Molly Holloway (CEO - Holloway Industries) in Attack at City Center: Four Days Later - Protests (Lucas’ Room) // TAG CIA, Police, CCDA, Medical, and anyone interested

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It was more than two hours later when Ilena returned. She came with a small cart that most of the nurses were seen pushing around. It lacked the medical equipment, but had a small table top, a basket underneath, and was adjustable. “I hope this works.”

Somehow, during the two hours that Ilena had been gone, the yells of the crowd outside had subsided. The governor had spoken, the crowd had dispersed, and everything seemed to have slowly returned to normal.

Hearing the nurse come in, Molly looked up from a PaDD with surprise. “Oh, it’s perfect. Thank you so much!” She said as she helped Ilena setting it up next to the chair she was using.

Ilena seemed somewhat conflicted, as she paused to look at Molly. Her mouth scrunching up as she tried to decide her words. “Dr Fayth will not be here today. She became ill earlier. Nothing contagious, mostly over work the doctors think. She’s been ordered to rest. So Dr. Eraras will be in to check on Mr Holloway. Dr. Pendak is our head cardiologist will be with him as well.”

Ilena

“Oh… I’m so sorry to hear…” There was genuine concern in Molly’s tone. “I hope it’s nothing serious and that she gets better soon. If there’s anything I can do around here to ease things, even if that’s just moving to a different corner of the room, let me know. You all already have far too much to worry about…”

Molly Holloway, CEO Holloway Heavy Industries

Ilena smiled, “Thank you. Positive thoughts will go a lot further than anything. Dr Fayth is....unique, even among Betazoids.” Ilena was worried, they really had no way to know if it was serious or not, Sharah was the exception to everything. However Ilena couldn’t talk about another’s medical history.

Molly’s brow raised slightly at the information. She was, of course, not sure about what Ilena meant by the doctor being unique, but she didn’t comment, simply assuming that the woman had some particularity that was uncommon and got in the way of her own personal health. More than anyone else, Holloway respected that private matters should remain that way. Private.

Nodding, she added. “I’ll try to send my positive thoughts her way then.” She smiled softly. Telepaths were very still a mystery to Molly, even if Intel required her to know about them in detail. But she hoped she could do even a fraction of what Doctor Fayth had done for her and her family.

Eraras and Pendak arrived. Pendak introduced himself. “I’m here, as I’m sure you can surmise, because of your uncle’s heart. I am going to run some basic scans before we start and then will monitor him, his heart specifically.”

Eraras smiled at Molly, “Hello again Ms Holloway. Do you have any questions before we begin?”

Eraras

Standing up from her chair as the two doctors walked in the room, Molly nodded in way of greeting, mostly to Doctor Pendak since they hadn’t crossed paths before.

“Uh, yes.” She replied to Dr. Eraras’s question. “I was just hoping to know what are your expectations and what will the procedure entail…” It would be apparent that Molly wasn’t exactly sure about what to ask, and yet she wanted to know everything that could make her understand what was going to happen in order to ease her mind. “Are you hoping to just get some scans done, and maybe removing some of the neuro-suppressors, or are you hoping to have them all removed if his condition is stable enough?” She gave Eraras an apologetic smile. “I’m sorry… I’m just trying to temper my expectations…”

Molly Holloway, CEO Holloway Heavy Industries

Eraras nodded, his permanent jovial expression still there but seeming somewhat tempered. “I’ve been following your uncle’s case, consulting on the treatment of his broken bones, so I am current on what Dr Fayth has been doing. My expectations for right now is to see significant bone and tissue regrowth/repair. When we lower the neurosuppressors I will expect to see neural activity that indicates the mind is aware of the rest of the body. That does not mean we will completely remove the suppressors or put them back on.”

“We are going to start with basic scans of his injuries and will compare them with the scans and images taken when he arrived. Right now I am setting up the EKG to run on his heart. I will do one now while he is resting and another after Eraras has finished the orthopedic exam of the injuries,” Pendak explained. “The test will run while we lower the neurosuppressors. At any point if his heart seems in distress then we’ll replace the suppressors.”

“After we take the images, I will be performing a stress test on his bones and muscle tissue. That sounds worse than it is. What I will be doing is bending and flexing his leg and arms. While I do that we will be taking scans to make sure that the bone and tissue is holding and flexing the way it’s supposed to. Now,” Eraras held up a finger, “I do not expect full range of motion because his treatments are not finished. But I do expect that there will be no structural strain on the bones. I will also be running a special blood test to make sure that the new bones in his arms have started producing red blood cells.”

Eraras pointed to a specific reading on the bio bed screen that was currently sitting at zero. “The very last thing we will do is begin to lower the neurosuppressors. This is the K3 indicator monitor which will tell us how much pain he is in. That may sound awful but we want him to start feeling something, even if it’s pain, not a lot, we don’t want it unbearable but we want his heart and nervous system to start taking over the management of the body. I don’t want his K3 to go over .75 but if his heart seems unable to handle it we’ll stop and try again in a few days.”

Eraras

Molly nodded along with Dr. Eraras words. The knot in her stomach tightening with each mentioned test, but somewhat loosening back with his somewhat reassuring words of what they were expecting to see. Despite only being a few years away from his fifties, Lucas was generally in good shape, and had led a healthy lifestyle for as long as Molly could remember. This, together with the fact that she was not aware of her uncle suffering any major health problems in the past, brought her some solace, and made it easier to reason that everything should be okay.

With a deep breath, Holloway stepped aside to allow the doctors to work. “Let me know if you would prefer me to stay outside. Otherwise, if possible, I would like to remain here…”

Molly Holloway, CEO Holloway Heavy Industries