What was it about clowns that upset people so much? Yume, for one, had no issues with the jestures of the circus but by the way that some of the orderlies gave her patients wide berth, it seemed that it was more common that one might thing. Taking up a clipboard outside of the OR she would scan the damage to determine what she was facing. Certain that it wasn’t a trait of coulrophobia to become violent towards clowns, she determined that assaulting individual simply thought it would be funny to see how fast they could run in their floppy red shoes. The answer was not very fast. With a groan, she closed the chart and makes her way to pre-op to scrub up. Pushing her way into the operating room, she finds one of the worse casualties waiting for her. It was a mother who had been bludgeoned over the head with a bowling pin after she had slipped on a greased banana peel. As if the irony of the scenario wasn’t bad enough, the perpetrator had also stabbed the woman 13 times. Some people were just sick.
While one Med-nin worked on the woman’s abdominal cavity, it was up to Yume to take care of her brain. A shield was in place between the two in order to keep their work separate and to keep the woman from looking down in the horrific event that she woke up. A tube was fed down her throat and she was hooked up to life support. If everything went well, they would be able to wake her up from the induced coma in a couple of days. If everything went poorly… well… perhaps a coma wasn’t so bad. Taking a closer look at the woman’s head it appeared that who ever had assaulted her only wanted to teach her a lesson. While the bone was cracked in many places, the skull was fully intact and continued to protect the brain which was enough to keep her from dying. Unfortunately it was not enough to stop the brain from swelling. With skilled precision she was able to widen the fissures in order to alleviate some of the pressure that would have killed her if left unchecked. Structuring the flaps of scalp back into place, she would stitch everything in place to keep it closed enough to start healing but not tight enough to put pressure on the brain. Carefully she would wrap the woman’s head in sterile dressings. It would be an uphill battle but she was certain that she would pull through.
[WC: 437]
While one Med-nin worked on the woman’s abdominal cavity, it was up to Yume to take care of her brain. A shield was in place between the two in order to keep their work separate and to keep the woman from looking down in the horrific event that she woke up. A tube was fed down her throat and she was hooked up to life support. If everything went well, they would be able to wake her up from the induced coma in a couple of days. If everything went poorly… well… perhaps a coma wasn’t so bad. Taking a closer look at the woman’s head it appeared that who ever had assaulted her only wanted to teach her a lesson. While the bone was cracked in many places, the skull was fully intact and continued to protect the brain which was enough to keep her from dying. Unfortunately it was not enough to stop the brain from swelling. With skilled precision she was able to widen the fissures in order to alleviate some of the pressure that would have killed her if left unchecked. Structuring the flaps of scalp back into place, she would stitch everything in place to keep it closed enough to start healing but not tight enough to put pressure on the brain. Carefully she would wrap the woman’s head in sterile dressings. It would be an uphill battle but she was certain that she would pull through.
[WC: 437]