*** Sickbay * USS Chimera-C ***
"Odd," Mimi answered as she drew her eyebrows together as if feeling
some discomfort.
Gustav squeezed her hand a little more as if to reassure her that
every thing will be all right.
Rangi entered the room and paused for a split second on seeing Gustav
beside Mimi's bed.
" Miss Hopeler.... Mr Kroitzer..." she said continuing on and looking
at Mimi asked " How are you feeling? Can you tell me what happened?"
She lifted the medpadd from the end of the bio bed as she spoke and
began to read.
"We had a picnic," Mimi started and looked at Gustav as if getting
confirmation of the fact. "And I was on my way to our quarters to put
things away when... I'm sorry I start to get fuzzy there."
"Its alright." Rangi said " Don't worry about it. Have you had this
happen to you before?"
"No never..." Mimi let her words die away as a small pang disrupted
her thoughts.
Rangi set the padd aside." You mentioned a picnic… can you tell me
what you ate? I ask because your blood sugar is very high."
"Let's see... there was sparkling cider...." Mimi closed her eyes and
reached a hand up to rub her forehead.
Gustav seeing Mimi's discomfort answered Rangi's question for her
"Some chicken salad sandwiches, dried apricots, some crisps and
cupcakes".
"Oh yeah," she gave a slight smile adding, "And you made me eat two so
you wouldn't have to feel guilty about the 3 or 4 you ate."
Looking back at Mimi Gustav felt gave a guilty smile.
Rangi looked at him too and then began another scan on Mimi but
stopped after a few seconds. "You have a redness there " she said,
lowering the medtricorder and peering more closely at Mimi's neck. "
Has it been like that for long?"
"I don't think it was there this morning," Mimi said, but swung
another look Gustav's way as if wanting him to confirm her thoughts.
Gustav thought back to the morning trying to remember if he saw
anything on Mimi's neck "not that I can remember… sorry" he said.
Mimi gasped with the twinge of pain she felt in her abdomen, "I kind
of feel a bit crampy."
"Oh?" Rangi altered the scan, concentrating on the area that
Mimi had placed a hand on. She said nothing but perhaps
mindful of the recent examination that Scott had done for
her, spent some time on indepth scan of Mimi's lower abdomen. There
was no sign of a pregnancy and Rangi wondered if Mimi
had considered it.
Mimi's eyes fluttered and she wiped a hand across her forehead before
it fell limply to her side.
Worried about Mimi Gustav asked " how do you feel?"
The answer was apparent very quickly but before Rangi could utter a
word, Mimi's eyes popped open and she blurted out, "I feel..." she
grabbed the tray that was thrust her direction and immediately threw
up. She fell back to the bed looking even
paler than before.
"It's your Appendix..." Rangi said "Don't worry... easily solved." She
glanced from Mimi to Gustav and back again." We can remove it...no
problem"
Gustav just looked relived that it was something easily sorted and
that Mimi would be fine.
Mimi tried not to think about the pain at her side and
closed her eyes.
Rangi turned to Gustav. " If you want to wait you can of course...but
it might be better if you occupied your mind with something? There's
really no need to worry...its a
short and simple operation and Miss Hopeler will be feeling much
better very soon. ok?" She looked at him as though the decision was
already made the turning to the nurse in attendance requested that Dr
Mathieson be called to perform the surgery in unit one. "Come back in
an hour or so." Rangi said returning her attention to Gustav. "She'll
be accepting visitors by then."
Gustav Just nodded to Rangi knowing what she said about occupying his
mind was right but before he left he turned and softly kissed Mimi on
the cheek and whispered, "I love you" into her ear.
=/\= End Log =/\=
Lt JG Gustav Kroitzer
DCEO
USS Chimera – C
&
Ens Mimi Hopeler
Junior Counsellor
NPC By Jass
USS Chimera – C
&
Cmdr Rangi Summers
CMO
USS Chimera – C
