X-Medical Comm - Private Communications for Medica

Amanda Sefton's medlab access and access to this community have been revoked. She will not be allowed to set foot in medlab unless she herself is sick or injured and then she should be referred immediately to one of the doctors. If you see her around medlab at all, please tell one of us or Kuk without delay.

Haroun was awake for a few minutes tonight, while Alison was sitting with him. According to her he was lucid and coherent, which is a great relief given the fever-induced siezures he was having. He might be in and out a bit more over the next few days - just a warning, Jean, in case the pinging of the machines gives you minor heart failure like they did me tonight when they went off. Took me a minute to realise they were just informing me of a change in consciousness.

Now we just need Tommy to come out of the coma and it'll be a real party down here. I much prefer awake patients, even if they're on the cranky side.

Haroun - we started him on the immunosuppressants yesterday, and will be alternating them with the immunoboosters every few days. His nervous system is still pretty frayed from the combined effects of the electrical shock to his spine and the high fevers, so we're continuing with the anti-convulsants. Hopefully they'll keep the fits to a minimum. He's already showing signs of bruising where the IVs are lodged, so we're going to have to be even more cautious about infection from our side as well as his. Quiet-ish night - some palpitations and I had to re-seat some of the waste tubes after his last bout of tremors, but nothing serious. Well, on the scale of things.

Doug and Kitty are back and immersed in the server room. I'm walking past on my way offshift to make sure they aren't killing themselves with work. Which reminds me... Hank? Hon? You are coming back upstairs this morning and getting some sleep in a real bed. Don't make me use the tazer.

Tommy - still unconscious, but stable overwise. We've set the breaks and dealt with the compund fracture to his shin, and the bruising is starting to go down. There's no guarantee he will wake up - the skull fracture's serious enough that there could be brain damage - but we'll cross that bridge if we get to it. The medlab helpers are doing an wonderful job - don't worry about your classes, we've arranged for all the students down here at the moment to have a suspension of classes until thing settle down. I know some of you are already ahead of things, but it's definitely one less thing for you (and us!) to worry about. Thank you all so much.

Jean, given Haroun's stabilising, ease things off to eight hourly shifts? We'll need to watch him with the drug regime, but I think we can stretch things a bit more now.

Speaking of which, bed for me. Pay no attention to the PhD being dragged along by his chest fur.

OOC Note: This post occurs before this phone call.

Jean or Hank, can you pass this onto the team list since I don't have access? Thanks.

So, almost eighteen hours later and we have achieved... a holding pattern. The heat resistant gel seems to be doing it's intended task of maintaining Haroun's temperature at a steady level, without the dangerous spokes we we seeing earlier. His vitals are weak, but also steady, and the physical, non-cybernetic injuries have been treated. We removed the jetpack last night, since that was impeding our ability to treat him, but the rest of the cybernetics remain in place - the kind of surgery required to address that is impossible until the spore's purged form his sytem. He's too weak and the shock would kill him.

On that note... Not a lot of progress there yet. Moira's last batch of vaccine/spore-be-gone seems to be doing something, but it's not killing the spore, just slowing down its reproductive rate. We've established that it cannot survive longer than an hour outside a host body, and it's aerosol in spread - it mixes with the moisture produced by the body and becomes airborne once it leaves the pores. So, sweat, respiration, saliva and excretions. The gel tank is actually helping in that regard, binding the stuff in a non-friendly environment, but again, it's still in his system and we need to get it out.

Helpers, thanks for the assistance last night. I've drawn up a roster of Tommy-watching for you, let me know if there's any problems with that. Hank will continue to supervise in between spore research. Jean and I are splitting watching Haroun over the next twenty-four hours, and we'll reassess after that.

Now I have a couch in my office calling me. Come get me if anything happens. I mean it.