I am the doctor

Posted on Fri Oct 20th, 2023 @ 4:12pm by Captain Mira Rodale & Lieutenant Durzo Sheela

Mission: The Return
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: Present

on:
{USS Chuck Norris}

Rolling her eyes, Mira thought it was time to suck it up and head to sickbay. After her workout with the Bat'leth, her hand was burning, and it had just gotten worse over the morning. It's not a good sign.

{Sickbay}

Walking in, Mira smiled but got a doctor who just crossed her arms. "Everyone has to come to sickbay after a mission. Especially if you're injured, Lieutenant Commander." she was told.

Bitting her lip, Mira nodded with a slight blush to her cheeks. "You are right, doctor, and I am sorry. By the time I completed my duties, I was too tired." She scratched the side of her head and frowned. "I had thought to only take a nap, then get up, come here, and check on the crew, but......"

As she talked, the doctor had waved to the bed watching her. " But what?"

Laying out on the bed, Mira shugged. "Honesty doc, I haven't slept the whole night in 4 years. Last night was the first. Normally, I have to wear myself out to sleep at all. I don't know what happened."

The doctor nodded as she unrapped her hand. "Anything else?"

Mira nodded. "Oddly, before when I was rescued a few months ago, I was really low in iron. It's odd because all I ate for 4 years was meat. " She made a face, "bugs, any protein I could get my hands on, really. The federation doctor thought it was because of the type of meat I was eating there on the planet. It didn't work with my Trill physiology. He said something about eating more iron inriched food."

"How did you injure your hand?" Doctor Durzo asked.

"Fighting the Undine" When the doctor froze
Mira continued "Oh it didn't scratch me. I used both hands to pull backward on the meqleH ......and took it's head off." she trailed off to a whisper seeing the Doctor look on her face. Maybe she should have left that part off.

"Did its blood get on you?." Durzo asked.

Mira nodded "Yea I was covered in it." it had been gross but unavoidable.

"Did you take the antidote I sent out?"

"No, I thought that was for if you get scratched. " she said confused.

"All Undine have a polyfluidic compound throughout their body. While the most common form of contact is scratching, the compound can also be found in its blood. If it managed to enter your body, it can cause a variety of not so nice effects."

"Like what?"

"Sadly the federation has little information on species 8472 – aka the undine. Your prolonged sleep is definitely one of the side effects, although for the moment I'd call it a positive outcome. Don't take the antidote anymore, after this amount of time it won't have any effect. I want you to report back to Sickbay every second hour until one of us says otherwise. I would prefer to keep you here, but I suppose that as the ships Executive Officer you probably have important things to do." Sheela had already had one run-in with the captain over keeping an officer in Medway, and didn't want to relive it.


Mira laughed. " Ah, work is never done, but if I thought I could really get out of the debriefing with Admirals and take a nap here. I would do it. Sadly, I think they might send security to bring me in." Mira nodded." I will report in, and if anything else happens, before then, I'll let you know. If only I could do something about being cold all the time. That would be an improvement. I keep checking the ship's temperature it's normal. That's so odd, but it's been going on for a few months. Thank you, doctor." Mira stretched her hand experimentally it felt back to normal



off:

Lieutenant Durzo Sheela,
Chief Medical Officer
USS Chuck Norris


And
Lt.Commander Mira Rodale
XO
USS Chuck Norris