Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharah Fayth (Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Medical Officer) in side-sim: This Feels Familiar (TAG Mika)
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Mika nodded. Skin and muscle conditions weren’t her specialty, emergency medicine was. She knew little about either of the two conditions. “Let’s have them run that test, and while they do that, we can do the EMG.” The muscles would need to be retrained, she was sure that would be bad news to Stehla.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Sharah nodded, “I’ll get the imaging suite ready. You want to run the scan Lt? Play with the new equipment?” Then she went to take another blood sample and had Nurse Elbbirt run it down to the lab while she prepped the EMG.

Fayth, med

Mika grinned, unable to help feeling excited like a child on Christmas morning. “I would be happy to run the scans myself.” She said, standing from her desk. Mika went out to tell Stehla the results, what they’d found and what that meant for Stehla. Then she explained the test they needed to run. Finally, she ran the EMG scan. As excited as she was to get to use the new equipment for a legitimate purpose, she put on a professional face for the patient.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Stehla grunted. “You do what you gotta do, Doc. As long as you fix it.” Wearily she got up and followed into the imaging suite where she immediately drapped herself on the bio bed, closed her eyes and waited.

Test Results:
Additional Blood tests ruled out the presence of other disorders and infections resembling Polymyositis and confirming the diagnosis.
Electromyography (EMG) (Norm: no electrical activity while at rest. Muscles also react normally to stimulation, in a smooth pattern) No electrical activity at rest. Reaction to stimulation shows choppy and misfired or missed electrical impulses.
nerve conduction velocity studies (Norm: between 50 and 60 meters per second) 37 mps

Stehla K’tolvog

The test results were what Mika predicted. She had a nurse take Stehla back to the regular biobed and then she prepared a treatment plan: Steroids, over the course of a week, would treat the rash, a round of antibiotics for the infection, it would be about a week and a half of taking those with strict instructions to finish the course, and then she’d set Stehla up with one of the ship’s physical therapists to help with the muscle weakness. Once she had the doses calculated, she went to tell the patient the results and news.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Stehla was stretched out on her side on the biobed. Even though she was numb she just couldn’t bring herself to lay on her back. When Dr Mika came by and explained she pushed her self up to sit, slowly, and then tipped her neck to the side. “Go for it doc. Right here,” she pointed at her exposed neck. “Give me the meds, whatever it is. Make this go away.”

It didn’t take long for the first round of steroids and antibiotics to make a difference. The rash was still painful and the cream helped with that. Stehla was adamite that she get to stay in sickbay. She was not going anyway until they made her 100% better and she was not going back to her quarters to suffer in silence or sleep and miss a dose. No. She. Was. Not.

Stehla K’tolvog

When the shift was finally over, Sharah popped into the office, rounds done and the next shift taking over. “You going to take a break, Lt.? Still feel like catching up?”

Fayth, med

The shift was over, Mika was cleaning up her space when Sharah popped into her office. “Yeah, I was heading out for the day.” She smiled at Sharah and nodded, “Of course!” Then she quickly finished organizing the remaining work on her desk and left the office, the door closing behind her.

~ Lt Mika, CMO

Sharah grinned and led the way out of the medical bay. “So how did it feel to be back in medical? My first day back I felt like a kid in a candy store and a wet behind the ears cadet.” The lounge was several decks below them. It wasn’t Sharah’s favorite place to go, but it was the easiest place to get food and her quarters weren’t really big enough to entertain. It was just weird having people in her bedroom at the same time they were in her living room, but then again this was Mika. Also seeing more of the ship was probably something Mika would want to do. Sharah could listen and find out, but she preferred not to even if it was floating about in the noise.

Fayth, med

Mika did prefer to see the ship, though she would be happy either way. She was, hopefully, going to be on the ship for the foreseeable future, it wasn’t going anywhere. “I don’t think I realized how much I missed it until I was doing it again,” she replied to Sharah as they walked, “but I think I’ll miss being counselor, too. They both have their good parts and their bad parts.”

~ Lt Mika, CMO

The lift took them down 6 decks onto deck 12. Sharah stepped out and made her way toward the foreword section of the deck. “I can understand that. There are times I do miss working with the science department. The collaboration across so many disciplines. There are so many disciplines though that it was a bit overwhelming. I never realized before I was on Ark Angel how much the chief science officer on a ship had to know, or at least be aware of.” Sharah shook her head. “Medical is science, but just…wow.” The noise here was always louder, and it was always uncomfortable, but Sharah had finally figured out how to at least manage. She made her way over to a long counter that was a bit buffet style with fresh prepared foods. Across the room was a line waiting for using the replicators.

Fayth, med