Yeoman Dedjoy Recovered Log 2: Sickbay... again....

Posted on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 @ 1:47pm by Rear Admiral Farenia Meowlith & Petty Officer 2nd Class Ila Dedjoy
Edited on on Fri Mar 20th, 2020 @ 4:00pm

Mission: Dedjoy System Mystery
Location: USS Katana: Station of Glitter
Timeline: 2393

Clio had stayed in the transporter room until transport to sickbay could be arranged, though to her minor irritation they'd had to beam Dedjoy and the Vicky-tree there so the transporter tech had also beamed Clio to sickbay instead of letting her walk there herself. She had insisted to the medical orderlies who greeted them that she was not nearly as injured as Dedjoy and to tend to the wounded crewman first. She was starting to regret that insistence now.

Fully deaf in her left ear and most definitely sore from the pressure wave and flying debris, Clio almost thought that being unconscious would be more bearable. But she waited - patiently - on a biobed while the EMH and his team examined Dedjoy and gave the Vicky-tree exasperated 'how do we examine her like that' looks.

The entirely holographic medical staff rushed to take care of Dedjoy, catching an aneurysm in the process of forming due to the massive concussion and working on keeping her from bleeding too much. The EMH was working hard at it as two orderlies scanned Vicky repeatedly. Vicky just shook her branches at them a few times and that was it when they tried coaxing her back to her humanoid form.

Then an orderly approached Clio and started scanning. "May I ask what happened that gave you three these injuries?"

"Away mission to the station. Information gathering. Something exploded next to us and the section decompressed." Clio thought her voice sounded so odd when she could only hear out of one ear. "How's Dedjoy?"

"Alive, thankfully. Clots were starting to form in her brain from the concussion but we caught them just in time. It seems you have a concussion as well, but are in far better condition. We'll have a lot of work to do on that ear though." The holographic orderly replied.

"She was closer to the source. I mostly got hit with the pressure wave." And if Clio had been leading them from the front, it would be her lying in the operating suite. She couldn't quite shake the feeling that maybe she'd done something wrong. "I've ruptured that ear drum before. I'll be fine."

The orderly nodded, focusing her scans deeper on the offending ear. "We might still need to replicate the more tender bits and graft them in place. I'm picking up a lot of old scar tissue so the Doctor will probably fix that as well. We've all been briefed on Lieutenant Iniya's unique physiology, but we're not programmed to treat plant based life forms. Is there anything you can do to help?"

"Um, I can try." Clio slid off the biobed, wobbling a little bit as she stood up. She was dizzy, that was certain. But she carefully made her way over to where Vicky-the-tree was, ignoring the rattling branches. "They can't scan you like that, you know."

The rustling branches stilled as it seemed tree-Vicky was thinking. after a few more moments, she started morphing back to her humanoid form, revealing the actual damage that had been done to her. She wasn't bleeding from any of her orifices... No, she was bleeding all over from cuts all over her skin and large purple bruises were forming all over her exposed skin. Finishing her transformation, she lay there on the floor shaking and panting.

Clio slowly lowered herself to the floor, trying to keep her head from spinning. "I'm sorry," she said quietly. "If I'd thought it might be dangerous, I wouldn't have asked you to come."

Vicky smiled weakly as the orderlies lifted her and settled her onto a biobed to await her own surgeries. "I would have gone anyway. Did we get what we needed at least?"

"I think we did." Clio stayed right where she was on the floor. She knew better than to get up by herself; she was too dizzy for that - and getting queasy on top of it.

As the two orderlies on Vicky started treating her as best they could, the orderly that had been helping Clio helped her up and back onto the biobed. She then gave Clio a heavy dose of painkillers and anti-emetics in a hypo, then started working on her lesser cuts and bruises with a dermal regenerator. "Please stay still. As soon as the other two are stabilized, the doctor will be treating you and you don't want to aggravate your injuries."

"Stay still? You clearly don't know me very well." Clio did have to wonder though just what injuries they were so worried about that they were telling her to be completely still. "I've been down this road a hundred times. You can tell me what it is you've found."

"The fluid in your inner ear that gives you balance on the injured side has been ruptured and you're likely to fall," the holographic orderly declared, still working on the lesser injuries and leaving the major ones for the EMH.

"...oh. Yeah, I'll stay here then." While Clio had never damaged her ear to that extent before, she had no desire to add 'undignified fall' to today's events.

After a few more minutes, the EMH and two orderlies stepped out of the operating area, a hover cart with a sheet draped over Crewman Dedjoy. They were solemn as they transferred her to a stasis tube and filled out cursory paperwork. They then moved to focus on the baffling Vicky.

Oh no. Clio propped herself up partway, watching as the two orderlies pushed Dedjoy's body into stasis. She'd gotten that poor girl killed, and they'd only just met.

Thankfully, the EMH was more able to help Vicky. Pulling a large lamp-like set of poles out of an equipment locker, he set them up in a corner. "Lieutenant Iniya, if you would please resume your tree form, a few hours under these specialized regeneration lights should have you back to new." With the help of one of the orderlies, Vicky was able to take to her feet and transform once again, the lamps clicking on and washing her with light and radiation similar to the output of a dermal regenerator.

Satisfied with how that was going, the EMH stepped over to Clio and looked her chart over. "Ruptured inner ear, is it? Thirty minutes and I'll have you as good as new. Do you have any questions or comments for me before we begin?"

The EMH was, of course, standing on the side she was deaf on. For once, Clio was thankful for all the times she'd inadvertently damaged her hearing since they'd given her some degree of lip-reading ability. "What happened to Dedjoy?"

The EMH was somber as he set her chart aside and moved to her other side to set up some equipment. "We caught the first aneurysm just fine and thought she'd be ok. But then bruising in the brain set in and we couldn't keep up with the clotting that was forming after that."

"Damn." The first away mission she'd been allowed to lead, and it had to end like that. Clio looked away from the EMH, not really looking at anyone or anything. No, she was just thinking that if she'd done the one thing away team leaders always did - walk in front of the team - Dedjoy would be alive.

As the EMH finished up with setup of his equipment, he glanced up at Clio and realized something. "I take it you were leading the away mission. I'll have to recommend a few visits with our counselor. Once she's healed up and back on duty, that is..."

"I was, and I don't expect there will be too many more of them in my future after this." Seeing the counselor was almost laughable. Clio didn't think Vicky was going to want to counsel her after this. "How long is it going to be to fix my hearing?"

"About thirty minutes," the EMH said patiently. He then moved back to her deaf ear and began working, starting with applying a device that produced a localized nerve anesthetizing field to numb the area. An orderly stepped in to hand the doctor tools and to relay messages if need be.

"I need something for anxiety then." Clio knew most people wouldn't find thirty minutes to be a long time, but her heart was already racing. There was no way she could be still for that long.

"What normally works for you for anxiety?" the orderly assisting asked.

"I take lorazepam." Clio knew most doctors didn't like to jump directly to a sedative like that, but they did ask. "I'm not on a daily medication for it. Only as needed."

As the orderly prepped a hypo and gave her a good healthy dose, the EMH started working.