[identity profile] x-mactaggart.livejournal.com
I'm calling an all-hands emergency medical staff meeting for this afternoon or early evening depending on schedules and this includes helpers. By now everyone will have seen the announcement regarding Jean's departure, we'll need to work out schedules and the like to cover each other.
[identity profile] x-jeangrey.livejournal.com
To: [Moira]
CC: [Nate]
From: [Jean]
Subject: I think we have success

Moira,

the restults on that last combination came out perfectly clean. I think you hit on the perfect proportions. I'm going to run the tests one last time, but we may have something that's ready for the next stage of testing, whenever Nate's up for it.

-Jean
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
In light of the stress of the last few weeks, especially most recent incidents, time off is being worked out. Jean's up first, given the work she put in with Lorna yesterday, and then Moira. Hank gets quality baby time after that and I'll take my chances with Christmas. *wry*

Also, we're slowly switching our patient roster around as people recover/etc:

Haroun should be moving back to his own room in the next day or two.

Forge was released last night by Moira.

Marius is being moved to somewhere less isolated, given he's stabilised and is apparently no longer a threat, although I will remind everyone who carries the X-gene to watch his hands since he doesn't seem to have control over those little mouths of his and I don't want anyone accidentally getting bitten.

Tommy is staying put, given he's still bedridden. We'll continue to need people to fetch and carry for him and Haroun.

Lorna has been moved to her room as familiar surroundings are considered to be more calming for her. Charles is observing her.

Remy is still healing at that scary accelerated rate. I removed the sutures from his surgical wound yesterday, and the fluids we've been pumping into him seem to be doing the job. Which reminds me, we need to ask the hospital for more blood in his type. He's drifting in and out of consciousness - he should wake up in the next day or two. Clarice, Rahne, you two are still priority sitters for him, given you have more specialised training.

New rosters are on the board by the toaster oven, including the helpers. Who, I might add, we'd be lost without, especially given recent events. Jennie and Jamie are also helping out with meals, baths, etc.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
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.
[identity profile] x-jeangrey.livejournal.com
I almost added "Protests can be lodged with the lake" to the announcement.
[identity profile] x-jeangrey.livejournal.com
Tommy Jones woke up this afternoon while Kylun was down here reading to him. You can all guess how well that sat with the young man.

He's in no shape to be leaving the medlab any time soon, obviously, but he is awake. Which means among other things, that he probably no longer strictly needs a twenty-four hour watch, as he can hit an emergency call button again.

We're going to have to talk about what this means, both as far as scheduling goes and, well, all the rest of it. I'm going to let the staff know, too.
[identity profile] x-mactaggart.livejournal.com
I'm happy to announce that it looks like Haroun's radiation therapy went well. I've gone over the results with the other doctors and the outcome looks good. Finally the spore is dead. What this means right now?

Jean, Maddie, go get some rest. Lots of it. I'd rather you take most of today off and if I find you not resting, I know where you sleep. You two have earned it. I can watch over Haroun since there's no longer danger of catching anything. I'll drop a line to Alison as well, just to tell her the good news.

Rest, sleep.

Congratulations to everyone, we made it through this.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
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.

Hmm

Sep. 13th, 2005 05:59 am
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
I was just checking Haroun's EEG for yesterday, and there's a few spikes I really don't like. Can the doctors three spare a moment to give me a second opinion? Given what happened with Betsy yesterday, I want to make sure he's not about to go into grand mal seizures again.
[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
As of 10:00 am this morning, my lovely lab partner and I have managed to find the ideal myomer composition that will retain structural consistency and electrical conductivity at temperatures approaching nine hundred degrees centigrade. For reference, that's over twice what Jetstream's been clocked at during a full burn.

The software team is still grinding out the interface; at last report they're a day ahead of schedule. Those two are geniuses in every sense of the word, I'm absolutely floored.

Design of the physical cyberware is starting this afternoon - if someone can pass along a message to Sam Guthrie, I'll need to get some comparative positioning data from him since his flight power is almost identical to Jetstream's.

Am taking enforced 'sanity break' until 2 this afternoon, and will return to the lab then.

JHF
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[personal profile] xp_daytripper
I was thinking, since Rahne's tied up with Rachel when Moira's at the hospital, and Clarice is bouncing between her job and the medlab, and I've got a little furry girl throwing expensive tantrums because she's being neglected, is there a way to get more medlab helpers? Temporary ones, even? Just someone to watch over Coma Boy and make sure he's kept clean and the rest - the RedX people would have the training, wouldn't they?

Not wanting to make things harder given Haroun and all, but we're really stretched right now.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
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.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
So, considering our mystery benefactor's call yesterday, it looks like we've got a way to attack this thing. Provided the info checks out, of course. I formally call brainstorming session.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
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.

Emergency!

Sep. 1st, 2005 09:22 pm
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
Follows an all-doctors page to attend at the medlab.

We've got a situation, people. Team's on its way back from a job, and Haroun's been seriously injured. Initial stats are not looking good. Plus, as an added bonus, we've got some sort of deadly infection to deal with, possibly a biological weapon. All information is up on the medlab files, and I'm prepping the isolation lab as we speak. Emergency biohazard protocols to be implemented on landing.

Jean, there's a hazmat suit prepped and waiting for you - we'll need your TK to isolate Haroun from hanger to lab. Moira, Hank, we'll need you out in the lab proper - you've got the expertise with genetics and biochemistry, and there's no way either of you are coming close to a probable fatal contagion.

Forge, Paige, we'll need you both working on this one - apparently Haroun's suffered some extensive damage to the cybernetics. Details unclear as yet, but you'll be updated as soon as we are.

Clarice, Rahne and Amanda, you'll be assisting Hank and Moira. Students will not be entering the iso lab under any circumstances. Considering we still have another critical patient, there will be plenty for you to do.

Batten down the hatches and put on the industrial pot of coffee - it's going to be a long night.
[identity profile] x-beast.livejournal.com
I will trust the students with access to this list to be discreet... I admit to being guilty of a small fib, in my more general post. There is, at this time, no guarantee that the boy will survive, although we're doing our best, but I felt it wise to avoid the inevitable outpouring of student hysterics, righteous fury, indignation, and so on, as much as possible.

Fellow doctors, we need to draw up a timetable so that at least one of us is with him, and reasonably awake, at all times. Ordinary medlab shifts may not be enough. Baby duty must also be taken into account, so we'll need to get together to work something out.

Should any of the medlab helpers be reading this... it would be very, VERY helpful if someone brought down some breakfast. And coffee. Lots of coffee.
[identity profile] x-blink.livejournal.com
I just popped back to grab some stuff and saw Amanda. I know she's trying to quit cold turkey and all, but this is a little...excessive. I mean, she's showing some majorly worrisome symptoms and whatnot.

anything we or I can do? 'cause yeah, this looks really bad.

Amanda.

Aug. 19th, 2005 08:22 pm
[identity profile] x-mactaggart.livejournal.com
Amanda's just emailed me, along with a few others. Apparently the amulet that's used to reign in the her addicition got broken in an accident. A new one is being made but they're looking at a few weeks time before it actually gets here. I've made notes in her medical file of what to expect when she's going through withdrawal, but I'm just putting MedStaff on alert to her symptoms as of now.
[identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
So, there's been a few upheavals lately, and as Moira's last post here attests to, a need for some changes. Namely, shifts, and maybe taking on some of the RedX kids on a bit more regular basis as helpers. I know Hank and Moira are intent on continuing to work as close to full time as possible, but let's face it, babies need a lot of time, and there's four of us now. No reason why we can't arrange to have actual lives in between shifts, particularly if we cut out the nights when there's no-one needing supervision.

(PS: What on earth possessed me to buy this shirt?)
[identity profile] x-mactaggart.livejournal.com
Paige is going to be my lab assistant for my science projects and so forth. Amanda is still my MedLab assistant, that hasn't changed, but with the baby I need help with my experiments and research and what not. There has also seemed to be an increase in Muir's activities and I'll be talking with Curt soon enough to see what we can do about juggling everything just so.

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