Medic Log Ardith [7/19] Learning from Tahl

[16:19] As the crew steps into the clinic they'll be able to notice that it's kept perfectly spotless, no blood spots, no stains on the floor, nothing. Books have been carefully alphabetized on the shelves and the beds neat.

"Alright, please have a seat on the bed. Today I'm going to be doing things a bit differently. I don't know anything about you... SO I'm going to do the work without using any magic. Can you please show everyone your chest wound?" The entire time Tahldrig speaks she's polite sounding, cheerful even. She thrives within her work, and doing a procedure with absolutely no magic is something she enjoys because it's not as easy as just slapping someone with a flood of holy magic.

"Also, anyone who has any questions is free to ask them, even patients are allowed to ask questions regarding their treatment in my facility."
(Tahldrig)
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[16:20] Arkgvunde failed to attempt to interrogate Tahldrig or intervene. The Kaor is plentily pre-occupied with squishing down to avoid hitting the ceiling.
(Arkgvunde Vel'heim)
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[16:20] Mackenzie would watch and listen silently.
(Mackenzie Oshikawa)
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[16:23] Nephthys would just sit down near Ark who's trying his best to fit in such a small space, all the while the Sarradian is shorter than average. The tanned magi would listen in, maybe the medical field would be interesting in some way. He did use forms of healing magic after all.
(Nephthys Masry)
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[16:24] Zithembe walks in with the others, observing the clinic that they entered and everything was clean without any mess at all in sight. He was glad. For him, a clean place is a welcome place...and it shows good intentions, as well. However, he decides not to comment.

He nods in response to the doctor, beginning to take his armour off and sets it aside in a neat pile, seating himself on the bed. "Without magic...? I mean...okay..." he'd let out, quite nervous from the sound of that but would decide to trust this doctor and do as she says.

The patient then begins unbuttoning his shirt, revealing his bandages where the wound would be covered. He then undoes the bandages, revealing a horrible-looking chest wound that would make some people wonder how it didn't manage to hit a vital organ. It wasn't the best of sights either, and it's clear that this wound, despite having lived with a year withit, will take months, if not, years still to fully heal.
(Zithembe Andile)
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[16:26] Ardith would rather be learning something than loitering in the square, as entertaining as the latter could be. Somewhere as she followed behind the gaggle of magi she's taken out her little notebook and a stick of fresh charcoal.

The horned occultist, eerie and probably not making any anxious feelings any better with her presence, takes a spot at one side of the bed to observe.

She whistles and cringes as Zithembe displays his chest wound for all to see.

"Fuuuuuck," Ardith says softly.
(Ardith)
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[16:28] Ardith says, "I ain't a doctor, but I think this kid's a goner."
[16:29] Zithembe Andile says, "That's what I thought initially...but I'm still here."
[16:30] Mackenzie's eyes would look toward the revealed bandaging on Zithembe's chest. Purple hues examining it with curiosity. She wondered how one would gain such an injury like that, through battle obviously...Maybe. She shrugged.

"Damn....How on earth did you get that.." She questioned softly, looking toward Tahldrig to see what she would be learning to do with something like this....

Especially not using magic.
(Mackenzie Oshikawa)
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[16:31] Ardith says, "Clearly you're a zombi."
[16:31] Ardith says, "Or a zombie. One of the two."
[16:34] Zithembe Andile says, "Nope. I'm extremely lucky I'm not dead.~"
[16:34] Zithembe Andile says, "Apparently."
[16:35] "Well a year ago, before we had a medic in town... We went out to find poppies... It used a rare variation of nature magic involving blue roses and thorns...

The wood's thorns expanded from the claws and ripped open his chest. I... only cleaned the wound and bandaged it best I could a year ago. I don't even know IF I got all the wood out using nature magic." He said admittedly with a blush and look to the side... It was a mess but one that couldn't be helped with the lack of either a doctor or Zith in the same vicinity.

"I thankfully taught him how to change the bandages with the salve Noodles gave us... but that's kind of.. the extent of my medical knowledge..."
(Nephthys Masry)
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[16:37] Nephthys Masry says, "...If you didn't get what I meant... the Poppies were attached to a Koar... A very... very angry Koar."
[16:37] Ardith says, "Shouldn't have messed with the Kaor then."
[16:37] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "Hmm."
[16:38] Nephthys Masry says, "I wish we would've known it wasn't a flower patch before hand."
[16:38] Nephthys Masry says, "We stepped into it's territory... it popped up from the ground throwing trees."
[16:43] Tahl doesn't seem like she's at all surprised with the injury. She's seen it all. Death magic, someone bathing in lava, spirits being nearly ripped apart, reika burning through someones body..

She keeps that smile upon her face and offers a few words "That's alright, it's not too bad, I'll get you fixed up quick as a whip."

Since none of the group has any previous medical experience as far as sheknows, she's going to explain everything along the way.

"Alright guys, first step first, we want to make sure the patient is comfortable. We can do such with a lax essence, it's a pain killer that works on non magi and magi alike. It has a blue tint to it and often tastes like berries." She reaches into her pocket and produces such a container, a clear glass jar with a green screw on lid, inside was something like peanut butter, except blue.

"All he needs is a few spoon fulls and he won't have any more pain for the remainder of the procedure." She then offers a few spoonfulls of Lax to Zithembe.

"Next, we want to check the injury for any lingering effects, in this case, foreign material such as wood or dirt or even rocks. this is to ensure that no object gets left behind in the patient to cause him discomfort when we finish."

Tahl begins inspecting the wound. A small jar of fire flies held up to produce a bit of extra light. "I can tell that he's had the wound for some time, the tissue has already started healing and pulling itself back together." There's a small nod of her head.

With the pain of the injury resolved, Tahl decides to take a moment to open the floor for any questions. "This treatment will be taken care of by use of stitching. I have thread made of plant fibers that will break down over time and supply nutrients to the body while the muscles mend together. To make sure there's no bleeding, we'll be using something called 'Flash Powder' which will cause any open blood vessels to be seared shut. It's a temporary seal and the plant fibers will allow the vessels to open once again so that the muscles can heal."

"Any questions?"
(Tahldrig)
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[16:47] Being a medic seems pretty straight forward on the surface. But honestly? It hadn't occurred to her to even dull the patient's pain. Haha. Oops. She clears her throat and starts scrawling down notes, glancing up from the pages to watch the procedure closely.

Thankfully Tahldrig goes down the bullet points and gives a handy-dandy list to her notes.

"Yeah. Where do you get all this stuff from? And what're you going to use to sew in the plant fiber things? Any regular ol' needle?"
(Ardith)
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[16:47] Nephthys Masry asks, "I do have a question; what is lax essence made from?"
[16:47] Eshmun Hirai whispers: Take this, for now.
[16:47] Eshmun Hirai whispers: And keep care of my research materials, I'm having to deal with something.
[16:47] {Item} You picked up Hirai Abode Key. Dropped by Eshmun Hirai. .
[16:48] Ardith whispers: Huh?
[16:48] Ardith whispers: Yeah...what's up?
[16:48] Ardith whispers: Something goin' on?
[16:48] Eshmun Hirai whispers: Feel free to pilfer my stuff if I'm not back around for a while...Just don't go selling herbs.
[16:50] The blue peanut butter like substance Tahldrig pulled out of her pocket looked familiar to Mackenzie. Her memory flashed back to when she had gotten a burn injury in battle, and Eshmun had given her some lax essence to help with her pain. It really had made her more comfortable, so she understood the necessity of it now in this situation.

"It's important to keep them comfortable so they don't move much during procedure's right?" Mackenzie voice asked out loud, as she watched her feed the substance to the man.

Further listening to Tahldrig speak, "Where do you find such plant fibers for the stitching you use to close the wound?..." She would question curiously.
(Mackenzie Oshikawa)
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[16:53] Zithembe sees that it's actually not too bad. Not too bad? At least compared to what she's seen anyway? He can't help but be a little curious as to what she has seen compared to this. The young Drakanite nods in response to her kind words and her nice attitude, somewhat glad that she's the one who's going to heal him up. He just at lest hopes she knows what she's doing, but has to put faith in her as he can't exactly heal himself up.

"Very well." he can simply say, glad to hear that it's actually not as serious as he thought it to be, or at least she made it out to be not as serious.

A pain killer? He's infinitely more glad. If he can't feel anything during the process, he'd be more than glad. He nods in response. "Alright then.." he then receives the dosage of the pain killer, consuming it all as it wouldn't take long for his feeling to go away, becoming more relaxed as well due to this. He certainly seems more relaxed.
(Zithembe Andile)
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[16:59] First, she speaks to Ardith. "I use a myhtril needle, and the plant fibers I had a few dryads help me make. A lot of doctors use mithril thread and that works just as well. As far as everything else, there are some nurses here that spend their time making the painkillers." She gestures over towards the back room where the nurse workstation is, she's not the ONLY person here.

"Lax essence is made of.. heck I can't remember, I'm no alchemist, but it's herbs!" She can't remember EVERYTHING.

Now it's time for Mackenzie's question. "Them being comfortable is important for more than one reason. First, it allows their heartrate to remain steady, the faster the heart beats, the more bleeding there will be, and it also makes them less likely to panic and try running away, that does happen sometimes. Most importantly, for me anyway, it stops them from being in much pain. I don't like when people are in pain, especially my patients." What doctor DOES like patients being in pain though? Mackenzie's other question had already been answered.

After answering everyones questions, Tahl begins working. Zith was gently laid back, his head rested upon a pillow and a nice warm towel that she had gotten was laid across his face. Many people find it to be relaxing.

The flash powder is brought out of her doctor's bag "Flash powder is an ingredient that resides most commonly inside smoke bombs. It's what causes the quick puff of smoke."

She makes a small tear in the bag and sprinkles it around the wound, skipping the portions that are not really bleeding at all and had already closed up over the months that the boy has had the wound.

Normally she'dskip this entire step and use magic but she wants to show the local occultists that they too can heal another if they so choose. A nurse walks over holding a small flaming stick, half the width of ones pinky. The flame is touched to the powder and there's a loud 'pfff!' from the chest as smoke rises up. The smell of seared flesh would quickly spread from Zith's chest over towards everyone in the room, some people don't like this, some do.

She then begins her needle work. "For surface stitching, you want to suture anything that is more than an eighth of an inch wide to ensure it's going to heal properly. Internal stitching doesn't need such close together threads, and you can go about every half inch to provide support"
(Tahldrig)
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[17:05] She then stops to show the group just how far apart she's talking about. Roughley every half inch the plant fiber thread enters.

After a few more minutes of work the muscles are nice and closed together, bound by the thin vines.

"Now all that's left is the surface, and that's the same thing, I used to make clothes so needle work has always been pretty easy for me. Next class, I'll allow you guys to try doing parts of the procedure."

The surface skin is then stitched up and a small layer of lax essence put over the top before a bandage is placed. "The lax will make it so it doesn't hurt while the skin finishes healing, it also reduces the display of scarring. He'll still have one, but it's not going to be highly noticeable."

And then that's it. She's a bit bloody, but who wouldn't be after stitching a person up. She walks over to the water basin and begins cleaning her hands. "All done sir, are there any more questions? You can remove the bandages in a few days your skin should be all healed up by then."
(Tahldrig)
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[17:05] Ardith says, "Y'know...didn't think about the heartrate thing..."
[17:05] Tahldrig says, "A lot of people forget that kind of thing surprisingly."
[17:06] Tahldrig says, "Our bodies naturally want to fight off what it percieves as an attack, even if the mind knows that it's a doctor working to heal them, so reducing the amount of pain someone feels can have many beneficial effects. On the battle field though if you have to apply a quick patch, you might just need to get some people to hold the patient down."
[17:06] Nephthys Masry asks, "The faster a beating heart the more bleeding there is... right?"
[17:07] Tahldrig says, "Correct, because it pumps it more quickly."
[17:08] Ardith continues more note-taking, scribbling studiously as her tail twitches in interest. She learns. She listens. She absorbs.

And already she starts thinking of possible runic applications to this new art she's studying. Surely there are several.

"You say for surface stitching. What about if, like...it's an internal injury? Something on the inside?"
(Ardith)
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[17:09] Tahldrig says, "With an internal injury the easiest way to handle it is to actually cut into the surface tissue and mend the internal injury that way, like I did on the inside of the chest cavity."
[17:11] Ardith asks, "So with the flashpowder?"
[17:11] Tahldrig says, "The flash powder was used to stop bleeding so that I could stitch together the muscle tissue more easily. It's not required but it makes things a little cleaner."