"A CMO's Job is Never Done"
[Previous post: "Rise and Shine", written by the tipsy Mark Hutchings]
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Setting: USS ANUBIS, Sickbay
Lea had set up camp right next to the ILO's bed. Both of her
assistants had gone back to their quarters long ago leaving the CMO alone. Lea had not been complaining though because anyone who would have been in
the room would have thought the CMO mad.
"That really must have been hard on you," Lea said to the unconscious
woman lying on the bed. The CMO had not expected there to be an answer
but at this point there had been nothing else for them to do. Enaii's
condition had been beyond the understanding of anyone onboard including
her own. So all that Lea could do had been to wait and talk.
"I wonder what it was like to have your body in a state of physical
non-existence," the CMO said. Lea figured that Maya would have been a
good person to have around if she had actually wanted a scientific answer.
The truth of the matter though had been that the CMO had been more
interested in the spiritual aspect of this unique happening. "Will you
remember anything from your time as disembodied energy? I guess Talia and
Sabrina will just be happy if you remember them. Thalking of which,
they miss you. I noticed that Sabrina had been keeping an eye on you
from Susan's office. She probably did not want to show any signs of
personal weakness to the crew, or to you."
Lea stopped and chuckled to herself. For a brief moment the CMO
thought that she had sounded like Maya. Not in regards to knowledge of
science but in the scientist being able to go on and on talking about
everything and nothing. That thought gave Lea something else to throw at the
unconscious woman.
"Maybe that is what you need," the CMO whispered to Enaii. "I am sure
that you listening to Maya talking about the science behind what you
went through would be enough to get you up and running. Might have to
call Pravat in to rescue Maya though, but that would be an acceptable
risk. What do you think?"
The CMO waited for an answer or any sign that the ILO had heard what
Lea had had said. As time passed Lea's hopes dwindled to nothing as
Enaii remained exactly as she had been. It had been a worthy try but the
threat had proven futile.
Lea leaned back in her chair and sighed. When a heart stopped working
she could use a cardio-resuscitator to get hit beating again. If the
lungs stopped, there were several ways available to the CMO to continue
to provide oxygen to the cells. For each and every organ within the
humanoid body Lea had a tool she could use with one exception. There had
been no known way of getting a person out of a coma. What really
bugged the CMO though was that medically speaking Enaii could not be
diagnosed as being in a coma. The brainwave patterns displayed on the screen
showed her to be *aware* if not *awake*.
All that the CMO could now do was to hope that someone within NEW
ALEXANDRIA had a cure. Maybe something that had not made the medical
journals or had been kept secret for some strange reason. Failing this the
ILO would be left to her own to find a way out of this condition with
the rest of the crew as powerless observers.
As strange as all of this might have been though, Lea had to admit that
Enaii did appear more at peace than she had ever seen her before.
Maybe in the greater scheme of things this had not been all bad if it had
granted the ILO a rest that she would have otherwise never obtained.
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Lt. J.G. Lea Summers 2006 post #139
Stardate: 60343.0600
Tiffany Rose {lady_tiffany_rose@mail.com}
Chief Medical Officer
USS HATHOR
