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rainbowlounge2013-09-06 01:11 pm
rainbowmods) wrote in rainbowlounge2013-09-06 01:11 pm
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The Hospital
The hospital is sterile and sprawling, its hallways and patient rooms painted a glaring white. The floor is made of something hard and shining, and the lights are that peculiar kind of flourescent that makes everyone look ill.
The first floor consists of the lobby (painted a sickly green), an emergency room, and several surgery suites, all stocked with cutting-edge, even futuristic, technology and supplies. There is a cafeteria, though the buffet line is empty; the only consumables seem to be stocked in a line of vending machines along one wall. There are no stairs, only elevators, to the upper floors, which all consist of patient rooms: made beds, glazed windows, dying flowers, and the hard plastic orange chairs that are a constant in hospitals.
The whole building smells like antiseptic and death.
((Please mark your healthcare professionals as such, and enjoy!))
The first floor consists of the lobby (painted a sickly green), an emergency room, and several surgery suites, all stocked with cutting-edge, even futuristic, technology and supplies. There is a cafeteria, though the buffet line is empty; the only consumables seem to be stocked in a line of vending machines along one wall. There are no stairs, only elevators, to the upper floors, which all consist of patient rooms: made beds, glazed windows, dying flowers, and the hard plastic orange chairs that are a constant in hospitals.
The whole building smells like antiseptic and death.
((Please mark your healthcare professionals as such, and enjoy!))
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"I'll give it to you in your upper arm," Erica said. She pushed her way into the ER and gestured to one of the rooms. "In there. You need four more within a month of today, all on different days. The side effects can be pretty unpleasant--things like muscle pain and stiffness, joint stiffness and inflammation, weakness or even paralysis in your legs, and fast heartbeat, among others. Sorry about it," she added, not without sympathy. "It's not going to be fun."
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"It's not likely, and it won't last. It is possible, though. Better than rabies. Go ahead and sit down." Erica went about searching for the supplies she'd want, unsurprised there was no rabies vaccine ready to hand.
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"Less than a tenth of a percent of people who have had the vaccine have had it happen. If it does happen, call your doctor, but it's unlikely." Well, she'd find the vaccine later. "For now, I'm going to numb around the wounds and clean them." She drew lidocaine into a syringe, then mixed up a cleansing solution and found gauze to clean with.
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
Erica idly wondered how long he could hold that. Still, she gave him the shots quickly and then said, "You can breathe, you know. Tell me when you start to go numb." She pulled the stool over and asked, "How long have you known Bad Date Guy?"
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"Planning to accept her thoughts on who to go out with in the future?" Erica was pretty sure she managed to stay neutral there, no matter how she thought he should answer.
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"Probably a good idea," Erica agreed. She wet gauze in the disinfectant and gently started swabbing from the middle of the largest wound outward. "Tell me if you feel anything. You're probably lucky you didn't have anything worse than this happen."
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"I don't think you'll need stitches," she said after a moment. "I'll need to bandage these, though. Is there someone who can help you change them daily?
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"He at least knows you're hurt, right? You're not going to go home from here, find him, and tell him you need him to help change bandages because you got mauled by a wolf? That sounds a little hard to explain." She gentle probed the margins of the wound with the tip of her finger. No, it would heal fine, she decided.
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"Do you have antibiotics at home?" Erica asked. He'd need them, given the bacterial population of carnivorous animals' mouths. "I can't give you a valid prescription from here, but you're going to need them." She moved on to cleaning the next wound.
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
"I can send you back with gauze and tape if you need it," she said. "Not so much the antibiotics. So you and this guy got along well pre-date?"
Re: Patient: Mel
Re: Patient: Mel
Everybody had probably made a mistake something like that in their dating history, Erica figured. "Have you thought much about doing background checks on your dates?" she asked dryly.
Re: Patient: Mel