Med Force One-Tales of Recovery

[Doc Holliday]

Dr. Tesh and Dr. Holliday met in Dr. Tesh's office to discuss the various patients aboard ship. Of course, "Nina" was the first one they spoke of. They spoke over coffee.

"I just check on her," John stated, "she's holding steady. Hopefully we can get more work done on her in a couple of days."
"John, I think she'll be fine. She's come this far. If she got to this point, she's headed in the right direction," explained Dr. Tesh.

After taking a sip of his coffee, John handed his counterpart a report, "I took these scans earlier to see how things were healing internally. Look what I found.....or didn't find."
Dr. Tesh read the scan report, his lips moving as he read, "Boy that is strange. No ovaries." He then put the report down and asked, "Are you certain?"
"Yes," John nodded, "I scanned three times to be sure. I couldn't make sense of it."

Dr. Tesh thought for a moment, "the only thing I can think of is that she was a slave somewhere and they didn't want her having children."
"Outcasts!" John grumbled, knowing they were big into the slave trade.
"Not necessarily," Dr. Tesh replied, "some criminal groups will use servants which for all intensive purposes, are slaves. They don't want the problem of extra mouths to feed or dealing with the trouble of a pregnant female so they sterilize them." He paused for a moment as he sipped his coffee, "outright removal of ovaries is extreme but it is done."
John didn't answer, only shaking his head in disgust.

Dr. Tesh then turned to the board behind him that he kept a surgery schedule, "Let's do the next round of surgery in two days. We'll have an optometrist look at that eye of hers before hand to see what needs to be done." John just nodded his agreement.

Their attention then turned to Lydia.
"Ed, she has got to be the most unusual patient I've yet to see," he commented, "I touched her wound and she went bonkers! I have never seen such a reaction. I took a video of it if you care to see it."
"I would, actually, I might spot something," he answered.

Together, they watched the video. Dr. Tesh found it very interesting that when the wounds were touched that she revealed much information but remembered nothing when he left them alone. When they finished, John commented, "I wanted to continue but I didn't want to hurt her."
Dr. Tesh nodded his understanding, "I understand. We're not here to hurt people but we may have to in a controlled way. I'm thinking it has much to do with her use of cardamine even if it was a short lived addiction."

John reviewed the bloodwork and scans on Lydia over his datapad, "Very trace amounts of cardi in her system but it's probably why her stomach is always hurting and may explain some memory problems."
Tesh sat back a bit, "Perhaps a smaller dose of nanites may fix that?"
"I was thinking of it, actually," John answered, "I'll see her in the morning."

John sipped his coffee and became lost in thought, his mind boiling with private anger over who could be so cruel. Tesh saw right through it.
"What's bothering you, John?" he asked.
John couldn't answer. He only kept his coffee mug to his mouth and shook his head.
As he sat, lost in thought, the pager on his belt started to vibrate and ring.
Looking down, John knew what it meant.
"Edward, I need to get home," he said with some excitement, "it seems that I am going to finally be a father."

"Go," smiled Tesh, "I'll take care of things here. Midori needs you."
With that, John boarded a shuttle and headed planetside.

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