ILLUMINARRPG: (3 - 1629) Counselor - Ensign jg Reea

[Renee Bishop]

Mission: A Cure Delayed
Day: 3
Stardate: 2445.10.27

(Vulcan - Botanical Gardens - Counselor Ensign jg Reea - 1629)

"Shola!  What's wrong with her?"  T'Lov was getting more frantic by the second.

"She has a tiny puncture wound in the back of her left shoulder," said Reea, reading from her medical tricorder.  "She's having some sort of reaction."

"Do something!" shouted T'Lov.

"Her airway is beginning to swell.  She's in anaphylactic shock."  For a brief moment, Reea felt like she wanted to run and find someone to help, but she realized they were off by themselves.  Shola could die and it was on Reea to save her.  She moved her hand to her right hip.

Reea swore in her native tongue.  She hadn't brought her medical kit.  She reached to tap her comm badge, but it wasn't there.  Pounding her thighs with her fists, she swore again.  Panic began to well up inside her.  If she didn't think of something now, it would be too late.

"T'Lov, go find help."

"What?"  T'Lov seemed like she was somewhere else.

Reea smacked the Vulcan girl on the arm.  "Go find help!"

T'Lov blinked.  "Find help.  Yes."  She got up and ran off.

Reea needed to help Shola breath.  That was the first priority.  Her mind racing, Reea saw the cup Shola was drinking from.  The straw reminded her of something old she had been taught in her medic classes at the academy.  She needed something sharp.

The rock garden.

Reea's adrenaline was pouring through her, so the next moments were a fog.  She found herself kneeling next to Shola, holding the straw and a sharp rock.  Reea knew what she had to do, but she was gripped by fear.  She had done this procedure in holo simulations, but never for real.

"Stop taking so long," said Reea in an angry whisper.  Probing Shola's neck, Reea found the thyroid cartilage and moved her finger just below it.  Taking a deep breath, she used the rock to make a vertical incision.  It was jagged and bled more than she would have liked, but it was the best she could do under the circumstances.

Starting the emergency tracheotomy caused Reea to click into medical mode.  Her nervousness was gone.  The conditions were nowhere near ideal, and there was a serious risk of the dirty rock causing an infection, but by the Blessed Exchequer, she was going to save this girl.

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