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Mordin Solus ([personal profile] testsonseashells) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2013-08-19 09:59 pm

general clinic log

Who: Drs. Solus or Strider, various patients.
What: Echo checkups
When: Whenever
Where: LSR clinic

The LSR clinic, despite its run-down, beat-up appearance, is actually fairly clean on the inside. Lit by white fluorescent lights, it's generally pretty empty, with the occasional non-network patient coming in to get something looked at. A volunteer is usually found running the front desk, organizing papers and responding to phone calls, while Dr. Solus and Dr. Strider take care of the actual medical business.

The waiting room is barebones compared to other clinics and medical practices - LSR doesn't have the money to get entertainments for the waiting patients, so all that's available are a few chairs.

When it's your turn for an appointment, whoever's at the desk will direct you down a hallway to the left, and you will meet one of the doctors.

[ooc: general clinic log! all checkups for crazy echoes can take place here. specify dr. solus or dr. strider in the subject line.]
espigeonage: (☼When you're not so sure you'll survive)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-12 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Julien shifts a little, blinking his nearly transparent inner eyelids.]

No, but like - this wouldn't be happening if I wasn't going around being Typhoid Mary. [A glance at Akito] I'm carrying this thing, but it's not doing me any hurt.

[Why is this bothering him like it is? He has such a weird feeling about it - he shakes his head.]

At least it's not people.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-13 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Akito removes one hand from the box for the express purpose of scratching awkwardly at the back of his head, here.]

So... you're passing something around even though it doesn't affect you? I can't tell if that's a lucky break or not.

[Especially since it seems to be wiping out a ton of birds as a result.]

Still good to know it doesn't do anything to humans, though.
espigeonage: (💔Cause you can't see)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-15 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
That's the long and short of it, yeah.

[He looks back at Mordin and almost asks what he should do - metaphorically, he holds his tongue. Mordin did just say he didn't know how to take care of birds.]

I think that's it, doc. Thank you.

[Pupils dilating visibly, he peeks back into the box and muses a little, mostly to himself.]

Antibiotics are worse than useless for a virus... Fluids. See if she'll drink anything, maybe something with a little sugar in it.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-15 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you gonna do with her? Try to take care of her yourself?
espigeonage: (🌊There's no shame in drifting)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-16 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Julien exhales, his shoulders slumped.]

If you don't want her - then, I guess so. This is because of me.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-17 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
It's not so much that I don't want her... I just don't think I could take care of her when she's so sick. That on top of hiding her from my parents could get tricky.
espigeonage: (🌊Just find the horizon)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-17 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not usually inclined to... picking up strays, I guess? Or they'd try and get rid of her.

Pretty sure my sister and Strider aren't going to want sick birds around here, or at home. [he could've worded that more clearly - he doesn't live with Strider, just works in his clinic] I'll find a place when I go to break. You can leave her here.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-18 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. If they saw she was sick, they'd just have even more reason to keep her out of the house.

[He does nod though, gently setting the box down on a counter. And, after a few seconds of thought--]

-Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I seriously don't know a thing about birds, but if you tell me what to do, I'll give it a shot.
espigeonage: (☀To the cries and the wails)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-18 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. She... this is very, very sick.

[He lifts the bird out carefully and sets it on its feet on that counter he's just scrubbed. The pigeon immediately sinks down so its belly lies along the surface, feathers all fluffed up, miserable. Julien prods gently around its beak, it barely turns its head away, and pries it open. The tongue is brown.]

Gross... -huh? Uh. Well I'm not sure I know what I'm doing. But this can't be the only one this badly off.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-18 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, okay. He's pretty sure bird tongues aren't supposed to be that color.]

But... what should we do? Just keep picking them up? We'd basically need an entire room to have space for them all, much less take care of them.
espigeonage: (☼When you're not so sure you'll survive)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-18 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Julien lets go, crouches briefly behind the desk, and comes up with a patterned tin water bottle. He gets the cap off, pulls a white cloth out of a pocket and lays the corner in his palm, and pours enough water over it to saturate it. Then he pries its beak open with one hand again and squeezes a few drops in. There's a little struggling, but it looks like it's swallowed.]

Well... I don't have school type obligations. I have this, but my hours are pretty flexible.

As for space though, this is on the border of the Dead District. Abandoned houses and stuff galore. I was quarantined in one not that long ago.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-19 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true...

I can think of a few that are still in good enough shape, too. Somehow, it looks like they aren't that well known, even with the Dead District people. If it comes down to it, we could keep them there safe enough.
espigeonage: (💔Cause you can't see)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-19 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It got pretty abandoned for a while some months back, since there was the statue and the werewolves and all. Those are gone and some people've crept back, but it seems they tend to prefer the edges. Even before any of this, it's big enough that there are always quiet places here and there.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-20 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I guess in the end, it just comes down to finding a good one that you can remember.

Want me to try poking around? Since you'll probably be busy with the bird. [Unless, of course, Julien has a particular building in mind...]
espigeonage: (🌊Just find the horizon)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-20 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
And get to reasonably fast...

I'm not nursing anything twenty-four seven. I have a life, and I have here and the numbers club. She's a wild animal. [He seems to deflate a little] Try... mm, Orangewood. It was a cheap housing development and everyone bailed on completing it. Totally unfurnished and not everything's done, it's never had a lot of squatters. I can get you directions.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-20 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it. I can go check it out.
espigeonage: (☼When you're not so sure you'll survive)

[personal profile] espigeonage 2013-10-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Great... Thank you.

[He strokes the bird's back gently with one finger.]

This is going to end up a lot of work.

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2013-10-21 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've done this much already. Might as well commit at this point.