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Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)

Posted Aug. 11, 2019, 4:54 p.m. by Ensign Charlie Bailey (Doctor) (Emily S.)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Elaine Janvier (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)

Posted by Ensign Charlie Bailey (Doctor) in Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Elaine Janvier (Chief Medical Officer) in Sickbay: Main Sim (Minor Injuries)
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In the back of sickbay, away from the commotion in majors, Charlie was on her own, steadily working through the less serious cases. As she moved on to her next patient, Charlie could feel the painkiller starting to wear off. Pushing it aside she quickly scanned the young security officer in front of her who had a minor concussion and fractured ankle. He was drifting in and out of consciousness but stable. As she had another quick probe of her abdomen, she briefly thought about asking the CMO to check her over but she knew that Janvier was busy with a patient. As she turned back and administered a hypo to her patient, the young man’s eyes suddenly snapped open and he instinctively thrashed out in defence, catching Charlie on her injured side, before passing out again. She cried out in shock as one of her fractured ribs dislodged and punctured her lung, nicking her spleen on the way, and sent a violent shockwave of pain through her body.

From around the corner in the main sickbay, Enj’s ears suddenly pricked up and he let out a little whimper as he sat up and looked towards the minor treatment area, his canine intuition and senses picking up that something was wrong.

With no one else around, Charlie frantically gripped onto the bed as it suddenly got harder to breathe. She could feel all the energy draining out of her body as her heart began to slow and after a few moments she collapsed to her knees, still holding onto the bed. With a trembling hand, she went to reach for her comm badge but her vision was already starting to blur as she began to lose consciousness. As the strength left her arms she lost her grip on the biobed and slumped silently to the floor.

In the main sickbay, Enj suddenly jumped up and barked loudly as he ran over to Janvier and pawed her leg urgently. Looking up at her he barked again and with his teeth began pulling forcefully at her trouser leg.

Dr Bailey

Absorbed in her work Elaine had stopped paying much attention to Enj until he barked. She paused her work as she felt him tugging on her leg, realising he wasn’t going to stop when he barked a second time, she set her tools down. “What is it?” she asked, exhasperation clear in her voice. She was in the middle of treating a patient in the middle of a medical emergency. Now wasn’t a good time for him to be acting odd.

Noticing he’d got Janvier’s attention, Enj barked again and trotted a few paces away. He stopped and looked over his shoulder, one black and one white eye fixed on the CMO. When she didn’t follow he trotted back to where she stood and pulled at her trouser leg again before letting go and walking a little further.

Elaine wanted to roll her eyes. “Not now Enj, you can show me whatever it is you want to show me later,” she said firmly. Turning back to her patient and beginning to pick up her tools, resuming her work on her patient, thinking on how oddly Enj was behaving. He liked to misbehave but in an entertaining way rather than a distruptive one. He hadn’t tried to distract her from her work since he was a puppy. It must be the excitement she thought to herself, With intruders on the ship and so many people in sickbay. But any excuse for him that she could come up with went out the window, when Enj barked and took off running. She turned and mutter curses under her breath gave chase. Following him towards the back of Sickbay…

Lt. (J.g.) Janvier & Enj
CMO

As Charlie drifted in and out of consciousness, her breathing steadily became more labored, almost as though she was having to breathe through a miniscule straw. As her eyes fluttered open momentarily, she felt the pain searing through her body again and she tried to call for help which just came out as a quivering moan. Knowing she didn’t have long before she slipped into unconsciousness again, she tried in vain to move, letting out a pained cry which was a little louder than the first, before collapsing back on the deck in exhaustion.

Dr Bailey

Enj stopped running and tilted his head to the side and whined as he heard Charlies first moan. Relieved, Elaine paused panting a little from the short sprint she’d just completed. She was going to need to work out a little more in the future. She wasn’t unfit per-say, but she would definitly need to get fitter if she wanted to keep up with Enj. Because she was paused, she was also able to hear Charlies second cry just like Enj. From her experice as both a doctor and her time on the Ixlilton she knew it was the cry of someone in need of help and her Doctor instincts took over.

As Enj took off again following the sound around the back of an occupied biobed a couple of paces away Elaine followed him quietly. Her tricorder in hand. It wasn’t long before she found the Ensign on the ground with Enj tentativly sniffing her face, giving the occassional soft lick here and there. “Good boy Enj,” she praised softly. From the angle she was standing at she couldn’t tell if Charlie was awake or unconscious and didn’t want to startle her if she was conscious, and risk aggrivating her injury.

“Ensign, can you hear me?” she asked as she carefully walked forward and knelt next to Charlie starting to scan. She should have treated the Ensign when she had the chance to earlier. Or at least scanned her so she’d know the extent of Charlies injury. It had been folly to have assumed that the injury wasn’t severe.

Lt. (j.g.) Janvier & Enj
CMO

As Charlie began to drift into unconsciousness again, she felt an unusual warm breath on her face, followed by something that felt strangely like warm sandpaper. Her eyes fluttered open again to see Enj sniffing her. She thought she might have been hallucinating until she heard the comforting and familiar voice of Janvier. “…doctor…?” she murmured quietly, as she instinctively tried to sit up and instantly regretted it as pain shot through her body once again and she cried out and slumped back down on the deck. She could feel it getting harder to breathe and it terrified her. Looking up at the CMO with tears in her eyes, she muttered through raspy breaths, “…my chest…” Charlie felt helpless, out of control, and she knew there was nothing she could do about it.

Scans would show that Bailey had 3 broken ribs, one of which had become dislodged and punctured her lung, causing it to collapse. She was bleeding from her spleen and a small laceration in her liver, and she had a badly bruised kidney which was struggling to keep up with the blood loss from her internal injuries. Her oxygen levels were dropping quickly and her heart rate and blood pressure were getting dangerously low.

Dr Bailey


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