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MPT - LS Trickster - Triage - McHarrie

Posted Dec. 20, 2020, 4:08 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander John McHarrie (Medical (Consultant Researcher - Abell)) (Jim Watkin)

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in MPT - LS Trickster - Triage - McHarrie

Posted by Lieutenant Commander John McHarrie (Medical (Consultant Researcher - Abell)) in MPT - LS Trickster - Triage - McHarrie

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in MPT - LS Trickster - Triage - McHarrie
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Upon arrival at the orphanage Mecona kept tugging on McHarrie’s sleeve. “Come on, Vedi’s this way. He has to stay with Jensen. I’ll show you. Come on.” Mecona led him down between two houses and to the back door of a house. She didn’t knock but walked right in. “Jensen Jensen Jensen!” The little girl bounced. A middle aged man walked through a door from the front of the house. “Mecona! Does Karra know you are here?” Her little eyes got wide. “I forgot to tell her. Zanya brought him” She points to McHarrie. “She said his name is Dr Doolittle. He’s going to help Vedi! He’s going to make him all better.” It doesn’t really matter that McHarrie didn’t guarantee her anything; she has the belief of a four year old child that everything is going to be okay because there is an adult there to take care of it.

Jensen’s eyes widen with a smile. “Zanya always knows what we need.” He holds out his hand to shake ‘Dolittle’s.’ Come on, this way.” He leads McHarrie down a short hallway and into a room. There in the bed is a 8 year old Cardassian boy. His leg is in a full splint and he struggles to sit up and drag the leg as he scoots into sitting. “Vedi, this is Dr Doolittle. He came with Zanya.” Vedi smiles and relaxes. Everyone knows Zanya. Jensen turns to Doolittle. “I had training as a medic, but we just don’t have the equipment here. I don’t have anything to knit the bone with. All I could do was set it and splint it. The bone broke through. I cleaned and stitched it, but it’s not healing right after all this time. It’s been weeks.”
Story Teller EvilJen

“Given the circumstances, you’ve done a fantastic job,” McHarrie replied. He turned his attention to the Vedi, “So how did you manage to do this?”

-McHarrie

Vedi looked so dejected. “The little kids were playing with a ball and it got away from them. I was running to go get it, and then I just remember hearing a loud snap and then my leg just hurt so bad. I woke up here with Jensen later. But it still REALLY hurts.” Jensen looked at Doolittle. “He’s been here around a month. It’s not getting worse, but it’s healing far too slowly. It should be better now. Karra also checked the yard for rocks or holes he might have slipped in but didn’t find anything.”

McHarrie smiled encouragingly at the child.

Mecona had climbed up into the bed with her big brother and Vedi bit his lip very hard and sweat formed on his forehead as his leg got jostled. He didn’t say anything to Mecona though because he knew she was already very worried. “Everyone keeps asking me if Carlin pushed me, but he wasn’t even outside with me.” Vedi looks ashamed. “We got in a fight the day before.”
Story Teller, EvilJen

“We’ve all gotten into fights when we were boys,” McHarrie said warmly as he began to scan, “And always make up with our real friends.”

-McHarrie

“Carlin comes by every day after school. I really feel bad about it. And everyone thinks he did it, but he didn’t.” McHarrie would know from the briefing that the report that Casela received recounting this event was over a month old. The scans revealed that the break still appeared fresh as if it had happened that day. It wasn’t worse and it wasn’t better. The same for the stitching where the bone had come through. The rest of his body appeared healthy. Around the incisions white blood cells and platelets were appearing to help the body heal but then seemed to disappear and then begin forming again. The splint was very tight keeping the bone in place but it appeared that it kept trying to pop out of the splint and then would reset to where Jensen had set it and then put the splint on. No infection could be found despite the wound still being open.
Story Teller EvilJen

“There’s no sign of infection,” McHarrie reported, “How long was it you said it was since your accident?” McHarrie asked aware of the report he had read, but wanted some clarity of the local perspective of time.

Jensen nodded, relieved. He was very concerned with the fact the incision wasn’t healing. “Just over a month ago so roughly35-40 days.” He didn’t say it out loud, but his look told McHarrie how worried he was about the fact that there was no improvement at all for Vedi.

McHarrie took out an osteo-regenrator to help set and knit the bones.

“This is going to feel itchy, but will help fix the bone,” John said as he activated the device

“It is better to do this in one session, but we can take as many breaks as you need, McHarrie said.

-McHarrie

Vedi nodded with a little relieved sigh. After several moments his face twitched as his hand reached down to scratch but he stopped himself. “It itches a lot.” He talked quietly with Mecona for a few minutes and then he grimaced. “OW, Bedi dat huwt!” He was squeezing his sister’s hand rather hard. He let go. “I’m sorry Mecona.” He pushed himself up a little and ground his teeth. “It hurts....it hurts!” Then he screamed, his injured leg, just above the ankle bone suddenly snapped twisted at a very unnatural angle, and the screaming stopped, Vedi had passed out. Mecona was screaming and pointing at his leg. Jensen grabbed Mecona and left the room.

He stepped outside, “Junah!” A woman ran over, “Take her to Karra. Get her out of here,” his voice low but urgent. He returned to the room looking in horror at Vedi’s leg. The original break was perfectly healed, even the incision gone.
Story Teller EvilJen

McHarrie was already scanning the new break. “I’ve been a doctor for many years, and I’ve never seen a break just appear like that,” he said more to himself than to anyone else.

“Does Vedi have any allergies?” McHarrie asked, “I’m going to prepare an anaesthetic for him so that we can set his ankle without hurting him.”

-McHarrie

OOC: and just to clarify because I feel the statement was vague…it’s like the first break never happened, no trace or indication that it was ever broken in that location.
IC: Jensen shook his head. “Nothing we know of, unless there is something that would interact badly with his Cardassian physiology.” Even in his sleep Vedi was breathing heavily and sweating from the pain.

There was a spiral break of the Tibia and an oblique fracture of the Fibula where the Tibia appeared to have been forced into the end of the Fibula causing the secondary break. Neither break broke the skin, but was dangerously close to cutting into tendon and ligaments around the breaks if not stabilized. The tricorder was picking up some strange readings the molecular level. The area of the break was in quantum flux as compared to the rest of Vedi’s body.

Jensen left the room and returned once again with different materials for the splint to fit around the foot and ankle. “Not that I’m sure what that will do if the leg can break like that while in the other splint....” Jensen was feeling more than a little sick at what had happened, but was a steady presence despite that fact. “What would do that?”

“I have no idea,” John said as he injected the child with a painkiller.

“The tricorder is detecting some quantum flux, which may be affecting the healing process. Once we’ve got this set, could you take me to where he had his accident?”

-McHarrie


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