[Infirmary, SB UNITY]
It had been a couple of days since the initial visit with
the medication that Cmdr Summers gave her to keep the pain
level of the headaches down made her able to do some basic
day to day activities but the headaches weren't going away.
Walking into the waiting room Jade walked up to the window
again to sign-in so that the doctor would know that there
was someone see her. "Morning I have an appointment to see
Cmdr Summers." Jade said to the nurse.
"Good morning" the nurse replied." It's captain Reese?" When
Jade nodded agreement, the nurse smiled and said: " The
Commander will see you shortly. Please...take a seat."
"Alright thank you." Jade said she then walked back to the
sitting area and took a seat and waited to be brought back
hoping that they had some good news from the blood test.
She had barely time to sit down before a second nurse
appeared, glanced round the waiting area and homed in onto
Jade.
" Captain Reese? " she enquired. " Please follow me."
She set off at a good pace along the brightly lit corridor,
passing examination rooms on either side, finally coming to
the one she wanted. The door was open and she stepped
inside, announced Jades name and stepped back allowing Jade
to enter.
Two people were waiting to greet her, one was the CMO and
another a doctor Jade had not met before.
" Good morning. " Rangi began. " This is Doctor Theodore
Hastings.
I've asked him to take part in your case."
Hastings inclined his head in a gesture of greeting.
"We have the initial results." she continued "..but we need
to run a few more tests."
"Cmdr and doctor." Jade said nodding her head to the two,
"good." Jade said with a smile glad that she may have some
answers finally. "More tests are fine as long as it gets us
closer to figuring out what's going on with me." Jade said
taking few steps closer to the desk.
It was Hastings who answered her.
" The test results so far have shown an alteration to your
DNA...exactly why this has happened needs further
investigation."
Jade just nodded, "um.... is an alteration in DNA dangerous
could I die from this?" Jade asked knowing that any change
in DNA is never good.
" No, no...don't worry about that." Hastings replied giving
her a warm smile.
" Everyone acquires some changes to their DNA during the
course of their lives. They occur in a number of ways...
for example, an 'error' when DNA replicates itself or it
can be through damage from exposure to certain factors. We
just need to investigate it a little more." He nodded as
though satisfied with the prospect.
"Are you still suffering with headaches?" Rangi asked.
"Yes but with the pain medications they haven't been that
bad but I'm not going to be able to function and do my job
on these pain medications." Jade said trying not sound panic
or ungrateful for everything they've done so far.
" Doctor Hastings is a neurology specialist." Rangi
explained." I've asked him to take on your case because some
of the results show an increase in activity in certain areas
of your brain. We'd like to run a meta-cortex analysis."
Jade was having a tough time dealing with the large medical
terms but at least it was more tests to help figure out
what's going on with her, "alright how long well these tests
take?" Jade asked knowing that they needed to be performed
but she still hated it. She then finally took a seat seeing
that the meeting is going to take a little bit longer then
she thought but she was glad that they were taking a huge
interest in it.
Hastings replied: " I would run the series in my lab....but
don't worry, I'm not going to use you as an experimental
subject." His attempt at humour failed somewhat and seeing
Jades uncertain expression with the same worried look on her
face he explained a little more.
"It's all completely painless, all you need to do is sit in
a comfortable chair and answer a few simple questions, solve
a few problems, that sort of thing. Whilst that is happening
I will be assessing the weak electromagnetic signals in your
brain associated with subvocalised thought."
Jade did enjoy solving puzzles and problems, "wait what
exactly is subvocalized thoughts?" Jade asked realizing that
not knowing what this term was would make understanding what
is happening to her more difficult to understand.
" To put it simply..." Rangi said "...it's Telepathy."
{Telepathy} Jade thought to herself, "well I'm not sure if
this is in my medical file but I'm half El-Aurian and I
have a little telepathic ability but it was small enough
that I could control it." Jade said hoping that it was in
her medical records and if it wasn't she hoped that this
revelations doesn't sound like she was trying to hide
something.
" Yes we know but..." Hastings said and simultaneously Rangi
replied " That could be..."
They both stopped speaking, looked at each other and smiled.
Rangi spread her hand palm upward to indicate to Theodore
Hastings that he continue.
" It could be..." he began agin, " ..that the limited
ability you have is increasing. Thats what the analysis will
tell us."
"Could we start the test now?" Jade asked hoping that they
could start testing today, "sorry if I'm sounding pushy I
just want to know what I need to do to keep these headaches
under-control." Jade added hoping that she wasn't being like
one of those pushy patients.
replied. " Until then I want you to rest and relax as much
as possible ok?"
" And we should have more results back by then too. " Rangi
added. She gave Jade a sympathetic smile. " I understand how
frustrating this must be for you..." she said " ...but rest
assured that we are moving ahead."
"Excellent." Jade said with a smile the only tough thing that Jade was dealing with was trying to relax since joining the SFMC and then going into SF for operations she's been going full speed. But one thing this well teach Jade is that to slow down and enjoy the RnR when it comes seeing that it comes every so often.
Marine Captain Jade Reese
Chief Operations Officer
USS Chimera-C
&
Chief Operations Officer
USS Chimera-C
&
Commander Rangi Summers
Chief Medical Officer
SB UNITY
&
&
Doctor Theodore Hastings (NPC)
Assistant Medical Officer
SB UNITY (apb Rangi)
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