FTEC, Wednesday, Evening Shift [Nov 21]

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It was a rather happy Ronan who made his way into the clinic on Wednesday evening, setting his backpack behind the desk. He frowned to see that they still had Adah in as a patient, making sure to check on her and see how she was doing.

But other than that? Definitely a happy Ronan.

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Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan hurried into the room, the quiet sound of the whimpers enough to draw him in. "Adah?" he said. "You're awake!" He rushed over, diagnostics running through his head even as he came over, trying to find the source of the whimpering. He could see the clench in her jaw, not certain if it were source or symptom of the pain, but already reaching out a careful hand and a string of words to try and relax the muscles, if he could.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Considering that Adah's body rarely listened even to itself, especially when it was important, it certainly wasn't going to start listening to the babbling of some wizard. It wasn't even listening to Adah herself, as her panic spiked again over help being readily available but having no way to communicate what she needed besides and wide-eyed, intense stare that she simply hoped could somehow be interpreted. Still trying to will herself to remove her mask, still with her body laying limp and unresponsive. And it hurt. If it could feel pain, why couldn't it feel sensors going from her brain, telling it to move. She drew in a deep, gulping breath, trying to fight off the feeling of suffocating, though she was only making it worse.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan frowned. He'd heard that bodies could resist healing -- that they could effectively be 'stubborn' -- but he'd not encountered it before. Still, from what little he knew of Adah, 'stubborn' fit her as an apt descriptor, so he could rather believe it of her body, too.

He widened the scope of the diagnostics beyond the first problem, trying to see if the clenching was symptom after all, at which point he realised that Adah was breathing on her own -- and thus didn't need the respirator. Knowing that he probably shouldn't, that it should be one of the doctors who did so, Ronan nonetheless moved to turn off the machine, to remove the mask, and hopefully to ease the panic.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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The moment that the Obstruction that Wasn't was removed, Adah's head tilted back and she drew in a deep, deep breath, rasping sharply in her throat before culminating into a slightly hacking cough. It brought tears to her eyes, the way her body was reacting so harshly and then, finally, too late, as if intentionally not allowing it until now, she felt the ability in the fingers on her left hand to move, to clench into the bed beneath her as she fought to control her breaths, looking toward Ronan with wildly confused eyes. She was settling down rapidly now, though, although she was horribly shaken and still didn't know which way was up, down, or what was what.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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"I'm sorry," Ronan said. "I should have noticed your breathing when I first came in, but the pain in your jaw seemed... It drew my attention, I thought I could ease that first. Your breathing -- it seems much improved. Is there anything I can get you?"

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Shaking slightly as she wrangled her breathing to a slower pace, Adah just stared at Ronan, barely blinking except at long intervals where it became almost necessarily because the widened gaze left them dried, and the twitching in the corner of the left from the pain of her neurons firing back into action didn't help either. Words. She was hearing words, almost recognized that as words instead of just sounds, but she couldn't make sense of them, it was all gibberish, although it felt like she should understand them. The breathing staggered momentarily before settling again, after a small, confused whimper.

Re: Exam Room 1 - Adah Price

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Ronan frowned again, uncertain if she'd understood, but there was little he could do otherwise. Her body resisted his attempts to heal it, and the diagnostics indicated that whatever else was going on, her body was healing itself. Her brain... he wasn't even going to begin to try to understand exactly what kind of damage had gone on there, and it was old enough damage that, he realised, she must survive well enough with it.

Still, he left the room, returning moments later with the novel he was reading. He sat down, not far from her bed, and began to read, close enough that if she became aware enough, she could ask for assistance.