: Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor, aCMO) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor, aCMO) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : : : : : Posted by Lt. Cmdr. Heathcliff Rinker (Counselor) in Sickbay <next morning>
: : : : : : : : : : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Ashlynn Summers (Doctor) in Sickbay <next morning>
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Ash nodded and sat up and looked at Rinker "Okay, by SF regs." She said and headed for the supply closet and began organizing, she talked to herself as she worked "Gary's not here." She said "I have to get this under control. I have to focus...." She said as she got frustrated and started to knock things off the shelf, her mood was stabilizing but her aggression was getting a bit more noticeable.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Rinker busied himself with some paperwork, but kept a close eye on Summers. He could see her increasing level of agitation. "Ashlynn, what's shaking over there?" Heathcliff was going to try to distract her from her agitation. He could medicate her into a coma if he wanted too, but he rather give her some time to work though some of the issues herself.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Ash didn't look up "They won't stand up right." She said "They have to be perfect." She said as she started over again trying to set everything the way it was supposed to be again. Trying to not get frustrated but failing at it "Everything has to be perfect." She repeated as she sorted and stacked bandages with precision.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : "Perfection is an illusion Ashlynn, it's what the mind wants when everything seems uncontrollable." Rinker said calmly. "We only can do the best we can." He said sympathetically. Some of Rinker's best therapy happened outside the therapeutic environment, in vivo, as the text books called it.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Ash got frustrated again and swept the shelf clean, throwing bandages around the room and then started again. She walked over to a replicator and ordered several containers to put bandages in by size and use. She was talking to herself the entire time and finally responded to Rinker "Perfection is attainable. It just takes time." She said as she moved closer to the medications in the room, only a few pieces of medical equipment stood between her and a large quantity of medications.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : : Rinker tapped his cheek with his fingers in a rhythmic fashion. He stood picking up a hypospray, setting it for a moderate strength sedative. Summers hadn't been self-harming and really wasn't demonstrating any dangerous behaviors, but manic people could be unpredictable. "You can't create order by tossing things about." He moved closer.
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: : : : : : : : : : : : : Ash heard him moving close and spun around and backed away from Rinker, her eyes wide with fear "What are you doing?" She asked "I'm putting things away. I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me." She whimpered "Please."
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: : : : : : : : : : : : "Look at me Ashlyn," Rinker stood before her. "Have I ever tried to hurt you?" Ashlyn was moving from symptom to symptom and her presentation was very atypical. Perhaps he was going to try something radical.
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: : : : : : : : : : : Ashlynn looked at Rinker and shook her head negatively "No you haven't hurt me.." She shook her head "I"m tired..Can I sleep?" She asked leaning against the wall "I want to get better." She said as she grabbed a laser scalpel from next to her "I want to go...somewhere." She said holding the scalpel...
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: : : : : : : : : : Whomever left that scalpel lying around was going to lose a rank as Rinker almost rolled his eyes at Ashlynn. "Okay, we can do both where do you want to sleep and go?" Rinker took a step back. He didn't believe that Ashlynn was a great hand to hand combatant, but one never knew. Rinker on the other hand was very familiar with attacks from mentally unstable people. The tended to be lunge filled, unbalanced, loud encounters, a calm person had a great advantage.
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: : : : : : : : : Ashlynn handed Rinker the scalpel and sank to the floor suddenly very exhausted "I just want to sleep. I don't know. I guess I want my own bed. But I can't because Ali's there. So I'll just go back to my room here." She said slowly pulling herself up and looking at Heathcliff "I'll just stay here." She said flatly, her entire demeanor changed again as she cycled through, although the cycles were getting a bit longer, it would still take a few more hours to reach theraputic levels where noticeable changes would be seen.
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: : : : : : : : : "Tell Shawn that he, Jacen and Relann can share custody of Ali...." She left the sentence hanging and walked out into the main bay slowly toward the room in the back where she had been. She lay down on the bio bed and curled into a tight ball and stared at the wall feeling very empty and exhausted.
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: : : : : : : : Rinker guided Summers back to her bed. Perhaps he had hoped that she would be stable too quickly. "Well I don't think we need to do anything like that." He commented. He wouldn't be terminating her parental rights anytime soon and more likely than not she would be better in a few weeks. He called up the computer and did a brain scan. They presumed that the seizures were the atypical cause of some of her hallucinations - perhaps there was something else to be found.
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: : : : : : : As the scan completed it chirped indicating that something had been located. A deeper scan would show something abnormal near the hypothalamus. This could explain the extreme mood swings and the seizures.
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: : : : : : : Ash heard the chirp but couldn't bring herself to look up from where she was staring. She was just tired.
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: : : : : : "Young lady, I think I'm going to write a paper about you." Rinker commented, it really wasn't true, Rinker hated writing and he thought papers that didn't increase the knowledge in the practice of medicine was pointless, self-serving. "We have a distortion in your hypothalamus. I might give it a pass with a regenerator, but if we are going in we might as well hit the seizure as well."
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: : : : : : Rinker frowned. He was a pretty good surgeon considering he almost never practiced anything aside from psychiatry. "Who's the best neurosurgeon or exploratory surgeon on this boat?" Ashlynn probably knew better than he.
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: : : : : Ash spoke quietly "Ryley, but he's gone." She said "Only other one is Shawn and you forbid him from treating me." She said "What did you find?" She asked without emotion or moving from where she was curled on her side.
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: : : : "Your hypothalamus is reading irregularly and I'm not in love with your mood swings, they are very atypical. Atypical symptoms usually have atypical sources." He frowned about Shawn doing anything for him. "And I didn't forbid it, the medical board does."
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: : : Ash nodded "Simple solution, take a narrow beam make a small incision and deal with it that way. In and out...no muss no fuss." She said "Or just leave it and I'll take medications for the time being until we get someone else to deal with it." She said "THe medications will be fine."
: : : (OOC: We'll wrap this up with the medication and Rinker won't have to deal with Ash any further...Sorry for the drama)
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: : Bump---we can finish this out.
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: "I'm not sure I consider a laser scalpel to the brain as easy in and out." Rinker frowned on any permanent design changes. Hence his dislike of tattoos and even piercings, but that was a little far a field for this conversation. "I'd rather go with a little medication management. It leaves the options a little more open. The issue was which particular medication. You present very atypically."
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: Rinker

Ash was following unseen things around the room as the seizure activity picked up again since she hadn't had another dose of the anti-seizure medication. She was crying and angry all at the same time. She was struggling to keep everything under control and in "Make them stop..." She almost begged Rinker...

Summers (doctor)