Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in So… This Is It

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in So… This Is It

Posted by Ensign Dradvia (Medical Officer) in So… This Is It
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Sisnil nodded. “I don’t know either. The antidote isn’t something you generally come across outside of high quality hospitals and medical labs.”

~ Zoi

“No, it’s not. And the poison isn’t exactly something you see in polite society,” Dradvia said. “Are you still cold?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Yes. Like I’m standing outside in a blizzard in my birthday suit.” Sisnil answered. “It’s not something the Syndicate even regularly uses. Partly due to difficulty in getting it, but still.”

~ Zoi

“Then it wasn’t a common thief,” Dradvia already knew that, and so did Sisnil. So who and why did someone do that. The Syndicate? Did they think he had betrayed them? She turned the temperature up on the bed slightly. She reached into the cabinet under the biobed and pulled out a pair of socks. She moved to the end of the bed, moved the blanket, and slipped them onto his feet before covering him back up. “Let me know if that doesn’t help.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“It feels like it’s lined with nails, but it’s warm.” Sisnil said. He shook his head to answer her comment. “No, I don’t think so. I don’t even think they expected us to believe that.”

~ Zoi

“Probably not, but then who hired him?” Dradvia wasn’t aware of what the man said to Sisnil, but she did know that his life meant he had enemies. “I’m sorry I can’t make the pain stop completely.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil remembered most of it, but he couldn’t make any sense of it right now. “Don’t apologize. It’s not your fault.” He smiled at her. “You’re doing everything possible.”

~ Zoi

“I’m trying. Dr. Tessan might have some better ideas, but I know you don’t want Tessan.” It was another 15 minutes before she could give him more pain medication. With everything else in his system, she didn’t dare give it to him early.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil read her thoughts. “Come on, Dee, what’s the worst that could happen?” Sisnil said and smiled.

~ Zoi

“You could die.” The fear was so obvious he didn’t need to be an empathic. “Echtallin reacts lethally with everything, even the antidote, which is why you have to take so many doses over so many days.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Oh.” Sisnil hadn’t expected that. “So how do the pain meds, whatever else, and the sedative work then? Without fatal interaction?”

~ Zoi

“The pain meds break down the chemical signals being sent through your neurons that tells your brain you are in pain. So the more you move and fight, the faster the medicine gets used up. The new broken down chemicals can cause all the impulse signals to break down if it builds up in your system, which is why the timing and dosage has to be so precise.”

“The Bromocriptine is a beta blocker. It is what is helping your body regulate your temperature and autonomic systems. Beta blockers stop or slow the production of hormones. In this case the ones telling you, you are too hot or too cold.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

The sedative was similar reasoning. The poison prevented the brain from taking up chemicals that made someone feel tired, while also having stimulant effects that made it impossible to sleep. The sedative used a different way to put him out, but when it broke down it reacted with the poison in a way that could accelerate its effects.

Sisnil nodded as she explained. “Tell me, Dee… How likely is it I survive this?”

~ Zoi

Dradvia didn’t know. She hadn’t looked at that part; she couldn’t. She was already emotionally compromised in his care. She picked up her PaDD and read through the file.

Sighing heavily, “65%. Of the 35%, 80% did not begin treatment for the echtallin poisoning until day 3 of exposure. The earlier treatment starts the higher the rate of survival. None of the recorded cases have been treated as early as you are. So that increases your chances.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil grinned, “See? Told you I was fine. Aren’t you glad you looked that up?”

~ Zoi

A small smile teased the corner of her lips and she shook her head, “You’re always right, of course.” No she wasn’t glad, but she wouldn’t acknowledged that to herself so Sisnil wouldn’t pick up on it either. “Knowing you, you’ll just charm the poison out of your system.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“Of course I will,” Sisnil said, “What have I been trying to tell you?” He said and grinned. His charms and smiled didn’t last long though, before long he seemed less high in spirits.

~ Zoi

His grin made Dradvia’s stomach flutter. He was incorrigible and irresistible. She thought so anyway. About the time his smile faded the alarm on her PaDD went off again. She walked across the bay to a cabinet, input a code, and then pulled out a vial. She tapped something onto a data PaDD attached inside the door and then locked the cabinet back.

“Time for pain medicine.” She set the hypo to his neck and pressed. “Give it a few minutes and the pain should start easing.” Another beep sounded from his otherside. A nurse came over with another bag of fluids and dradvia replaced the empty one on his infusion unit. “The extra fluids will help flush the everything out of your system.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“It’s… I mean, the pain is bad, but Dee, I’m just nauseous.” Sisnil said, looking up at her. He glanced at the infusion unit, he hadn’t even realized he had one. It was a show of trust in Dee that he just closed his eyes and nodded.

~ Zoi

She finished making notes on her PaDD and then flipped back to the notes about treating the poison. “I can give you Emetrol. It works by coating the stomach lining and reducing stomach contractions. So it won’t interfere with anything else I’m giving you. There are no drug interactions or side effects.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “Okay. I don’t wanna throw up. That sounds… Unpleasant right now.”

~ Zoi