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

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

Posted by Civilian Sisnil Zoi (Intelligence Consultant) in So… This Is It
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In another few days, the specialist arrived on board for Sisnil’s surgery. The first thing he did was check in with Tessan. Then he wanted to see his patient.

~ Zoi

Dradvia was ordered to page Zoi to sickbay for Cmdr Elbbirt. He’d grilled her thoroughly about what had happened and why he had chosen this options, and gone over everything that was in Sisnil’s file. =/\=Dradvia to Zoi. Report to sickbay.=/\=

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil arrived a short while later. He wasn’t using a support frame anymore, but he was struggling with being blind. Simon was with him, on his shoulder. “What’s up, Dee?”

~ Zoi

Dradvia smiled. She was happy to see him, but the joy was edged with timidity. There was also excitement tempered by worry.

Before she could say anything a human man, older with an air of absolute confidence approached him. “I am Cmdr. Elbbirt Mr. Zoi. I’m here to give you new eyes.” He paused. “The cat has to go. Please give it to En. Dradvia, and we will talk before we get started.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil smiled as he sensed Dee. There was another, unfamiliar presence. He gave Simon to Dee and turned towards Elbbirt. Dee could tell he was nervous, but he was hiding it well. He always did. “What is there to talk about?”

~ Zoi

Dradvia thought hard at Sisnil. She would take Simon to his quarters and be right back.

Elbbirt looked ar him curiously, “I assumed you had questions. How the procedure is done, success rate, rehab, etc.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil shrugged. “I won’t understand how it’s done, and the rest of it you’re likely going to tell me anyway, and either way, I can’t keep being blind, so I don’t have a choice.”

~ Zoi

Elbbirt nodded, “Alright then. I want to do my own exam and double check the measurements. So if you will, up on the biobed please.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil sat on the biobed obediently and waited expectantly for the doctor.

~ Zoi

Elbbirt ran all the same tests and scans that Dradvia had over the last weeks. He came up to the same conclusions.

While he did all of that, Dradvia returned and stood out of the way watching.

When Elbbirt finished he flipped his tricorder closed. “Alright. Ensign,” he looked at Dradvia, “How long will it take to ready the bay for surgery?”

“Half on hour, Sir.”

“Good. I’m going to eat. Get everything ready. We’ll begin in 30 minutes. I suppose,” he said, “you want to observe?”

“Yes, Cmdr. If it’s not a problem,” she tried to sound confident and not intimidated.

Elbbirt nodded and turned to Sisnil, “I will see you in 30 minutes.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “Thirty minutes, then...... Sir.” The word sounded so unusual and unnatural coming from Sisnil. He clearly had to force it.

~ Zoi

Elbbirt chuckled. “Just Dr., Mr. Zoi.” He left and the whole medical staff got to work, setting the space up for surgery. Kgnan took Sisnil to change and go through the scrubber. Then he was on the biobed waiting. Dradvia walked over. “How are you feeling?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“I’m okay,” Sisnil said, not wanting to worry her again. “It’ll be fine, Dee, promise.” He said and smiled.

~ Zoi

“Of course. Cmdr. Elbbirt is an expert in his field. You’ll be fine.” No one else was in the room at the moment. The staff had converted one of the VIP quarters to a temp sickbay and had left. The other surgical staff were scrubbing. Dradvia leaned down and kissed his cheek. “I love you.”

Sisnil smiled. “I love you, too, Dee.”

Kgnan entered shortly after with the nurse that Elbbirt had brought with him. “I have to go scrub and then I’ll be back.” Dradvia was only gone a few minutes, but she felt better knowing Kgnan was with him. Sisnil didn’t trust anyone, but at least Kgnan was familiar.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil was glad there was someone he was familiar with. He waited quietly and patiently.

~ Zoi

Dradvia was back, in her red scrubs, covered from head to toe. She stood by the bed and helped Kgnan place the surgical frame around it. “Cmdr. Elbbirt is scrubbing. He will be in in just…” the doors opened and she looked up. Cmdr Elbbirt walked in. He too was covered from head to toe in red scrubs. “Alright, you all are welcome to observe, but stay out of the way.” He nodded to his nurse who took up a place beside him near Sisnil’s legs. He looked down at Sisnil. “Any last minute concerns or questions before we get started?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

They were like weird red aliens, all covered up like that. It was unsettling. But Sisnil pushed that away. “No, I’m good.” He said. Empathically he was reaching for Dee, as if holding her hand with telepathy.

~ Zoi

Elbbirt nodded. “Ensign Dradvia, if you would administer the anesthesia.” He set a hand on Sisnil’s shoulder, “You’ll see me in a few hours, Mr. Zoi.” Dradvia squeezed his hand before reaching for the hypo and pressing it gently to his neck. “Count back from 10.”

Sisnil began to count back. He barely reached seven before he was out.

Once Sisnil was out, Dradiva stood across from Cmdr Elbbirt to monitor Sisnil’s vitals and anesthesia medications. He’d never shown any adverse affects to them. She was grateful that Elbbirt had assigned the task to her. It gave her something to focus on.

The nursing staff was a bit put off by Elbbirt bringing his own nurse. As the procedure progressed though, they were grateful. It was extremely complicated. “This part can be disturbing to even the most experienced medical staff. If you think you might become nauseated please step away.”

Elbbirt wasn’t wrong. Minutes later his nurse was holding a sterile tray and Elbbirt was laying one and then the other eye and nerve onto the tray. Elbbirt paused to look at them, and Dradvia did as well. “You said he was poisoned?”

“Yes, Cmdr.” They were… well the imaging didn’t prepare Dradvia for the extent of the damage that was there. It was gruesome.

“By what? I’ve never seen a poison do that.”

Dradvia looked up, “It’s classified, Cmdr. I don’t have permission to say.” Elbbirt nodded with a grunt. “Shrine, left ocular implant please.” The nurse picked up one and handed it over. The rest of the surgery proceeded at a steady pace. Dradvia was grateful that Sisnil didn’t insist she do it. She never would have been able to. Elbbirt was efficient, but even so, the surgery took a while, making sure everything was connected correctly.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

His vitals remained even. Elbbirt had to work around a little remaining damage within the brain, but the healing from the psilosynine procedure was remarkable.

Elbbirt could tell from the way his body reacted that it had been through a lot. He had to be careful, the brain and body seemed overly ready to react to the smallest thing. But he was able to continue and overall the surgery seemed to be going well.

~ Zoi

The proceedure was not more difficult because of the trauma Sisnil had been through, but it did make it longer as Elbbirt had to go slower to make sure he didn’t over load Zoi’s system. He was also afraid to take too long and that trigger a response as well. However the new eyes were attached and the ocipital lobe was recieving nerve impulses sent along the new prosthetic occular nerve. “Nurse Shrine. Administer Basal Tears.”

“Yes, Dr.” The woman picked up a glass bottle and walked around across from Elbbirt and used a dropper to release several drops into the eye cavity before Elbbirt slid the prosthetic eye into place. Then Shrine administered several more around the outside of the eye. Then they repeated the procedure to the left second eye. “Vitals?”

“Within normal ranges and stead, Cmdr.” Dradvia reported. Elbbirt nodded. “Alright, I’m going to make a temporary closure, we’ll test the eyes. If it goes well, we’ll close and then allow him to wake up.” He pointed to the tray holding Sisnil’s biological eyes and looked at Kgnan, “Lt. put those under bioseal and store them.” “Yes, Cmdr.” Kgnan answered. He took the tray and moved over to the table to place the seal around them.

Elbbirt first made sure his tear ducts were still producing their own Basal Tears. Those were made to keep the eye lubricated. Even prosthetics needed those.

Then he triggered the prosthetics to think they had dust on them to ensure the tear ducts would produce reflex tears to protect the new eyes. Emotional tears, well, he could test that, but given the trauma the man had been through, he didn’t want to do that.

Then he sent several impulses through the eye to the ocular nerve to the occipital lobe. Like Dradvia had done to test the lobe when Sisnil was awake, Elbbirt was doing the same. Except he was stimulating the eyes directly to make sure the whole connection was working.

He tested pupil dilation and movement of the eye to track objects. These tests were preliminary of course. Sisnil would need to be able to do these things when he was conscious, but it gave Elbbirt a base line to make sure everything was connected correctly.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Everything seemed to be working well. His natural tears were tinged red with blood, but that was typical during and after a surgery like this. The tests showed the prosthetics should be working perfectly. Elbbirt had chosen well, the eyes looked Betazoid. It was actually pretty cool, they could look however Sisnil wanted them to.

A nurse dried the excess tears running down his face, leaving the areas around the new eyes wet. So far, everything looked good.

~ Zoi

“Alright, Shrine, we’ll close. There isn’t more I can test until he wakes up.” Closing was simple and quick, especially with modern technology. The auto suture did the majority of the work and then the tissue migrator and dermal regenerator healed the incisions within minutes. “Alright Ensign,” he said to Dradvia, “give him 2 mls Terakine for the pain and let him wake up naturally.”

“Yes, Cmdr.” Dradvia administered the Terakine and waited beside the bed while Elbbirt and his nurse went to change. The other medical staff began to clear the surgical equipment and slowly the rest of the staff began to appear. When Elbbirt came back, Dradvia went and changed out of her scrubs and then returned to assist with everything else that was going on in sickbay, but she was never far from his biobed.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

They were done cleaning up by the time the anesthesia wore off and he woke up. He was slow and groggy, and though his eyes opened briefly, he closed them again. “Dee,” he said, able to sense she was near. His voice was quiet and slow. “Did it work?”

~ Zoi

Kgnan took what she had in her hand and nudged her towards Sisnil. “Hey, I’m here.” She slipped her hand into his. “Yeah, the preliminary tests were all good. Cmdr. Elbbirt needs to evaluate you. Keep your eyes closed for now, okay? Kgnan went to get him, and he will be here soon.”

Soon was an understatement. Elbbirt was there half a second past immediately. “Mr. Zoi, you’re awake. I’m sure you are eager to experience the results. Let’s lower the lights to 30% around the whole bay,” he said to a passing nurse. The lights lowered. “Alright, do you want to stay lying down or sit up? Any pain or nausea?”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Sisnil nodded. “Headache. Stomach’s queazy.” Sisnil squeezed Dee’s hand. “My eyes feel.... Weird.”

~ Zoi

“Weird how? Too big, too small, too dry, too wer, moving too much, not enough? Weird texture?” Elbbirt asked. He nodded to Dradvia who gave Sisnil a hypo for the queasiness and the pain.

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

It took Sisnil several moments to respond. “…I don’t know yet.” He said at last.

~ Zoi

“That’s alright. It’s normal to feel off after the surgery.” Elbbirt patted his shoulder. “I’m going to raise you slightly, just keep your eyes closed.” He didn’t raise him too much, just enough that being flat on his back would not disorient him. “Alright, take your time, once you’re settled from moving open your eyes.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer