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Tweak says, "I'm saving that for you."

Winry Rockbell (sternerstuff) wrote in elric_apts,
@ 2009-12-04 21:29:00

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haganenomore, puddle_of_grace, say_once_more, sternerstuff, supermans_dead, wortcunning

We gotta get outta this place
((Locked to wortcunning, supermans_dead, and lost_myself for the first part. Locked to wortcunning, haganenomore, and puddle_of_grace for the second part.))

Winry deposited her bags from the market on the kitchen counter of her apartment once she got home. "Sheska, can you put the groceries away?" she called into the spare room that acted as a library for Sheska's many, many books. "I have to get to the clinic, we've got a patient looking for some prescription refills."

She grabbed her cellphone while she talked, punching speed dial for Russell's cell.

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 04:23 am UTC (link)
	Meanwhile, Russell was fussing with things in the clinic, making sure everything was clean and in place, while taking breaks from studying various medical textbooks. Someday, eventually, he was determined to qualify as an M.D., but that would be a while off yet. He answered his phone. "Russell." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sternerstuff 2009-12-05 04:25 am UTC (link)
	"Hey, Russell, you in the clinic or outside?" she asked, grabbing a juice for herself out of the fridge before heading for the door. "We've got a new incoming patient. Name's Ken Hidaka, needs a refill on some prescriptions that look to be pretty powerful stuff." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wortcunning 2009-12-05 04:31 am UTC (link)
	"I'm in. What kind of 'powerful stuff' are we talking here? Painkillers or what?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 04:39 am UTC (link)

"Anti-anxiety, and I recognized one anti-psychotic on his list. I'm bringing the list down the hall now. I want to go through all the medicines and see what we're working with."

Thankfully, the clinic was just down the hall. Still. One day, they'd have their own building for that, but that might be forever from now if Ed's heart couldn't be fixed.

She opened the door. "Russell?" she called, hanging up the cell. "I'm gonna call Ed, I got that list here."

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Russell made a low whistle when Winry mentioned what the new patient was on, and stood, walking over to meet her as he pocketed his phone, and took the paper. Holy shit. He only recognized maybe a third of this stuff and HOLY SHIT. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 04:50 am UTC (link)

Winry gave him a look. "That was kinda my reaction," she said as she punched in Ed's number on speed dial.

The conversation with Ed was brief and about the same as what it had been with Russell.

"He'll be here in a second," she told Russell as she hung up the phone. "I want to see what all this stuff does. I saw a picture when he was getting that list out, looked like the stuff from those Vietnam movies we've seen. Which tells me their drugs for the head weren't any better than ours were. Let's see what can be updated and dropped before this guy ends up a vegetable."

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 04:54 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. The guy's probably got a serious dose of shell shock, like what we saw with the soldiers from Ishbal and Liore," Russell said as he reached for a pharmaceutical directory on the shelf. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 04:58 am UTC (link)

Winry sat down at the computer, pulling up the chemical formulas of the different medications for Ed. "So... PTSD, anxiety for certain, looks like one of those medicines was a sedative, so probably sleeping issues. I'm pretty sure we can trade that out for a more standard sleeping pill, something a little lower dosed, and see if we can't work him down to Valerian root so he doesn't get too addicted."

She ran a hand over her face. "I don't even want to know how badly addicted he already is. We may have to try to convince him to stay here and go through detox." She made a face. "We need to get someone in this building to study to be a psychiatrist for us, Russell, you know that?"

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Russell looked over at the books stacked up on his desk, then looked at Winry. "Maybe we can talk William into adding an MD to his name?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sternerstuff 2009-12-05 05:08 am UTC (link)
	Winry laughed. "He's got the charm for it, doesn't he?" Something on her screen caught her attention and she frowned, then made a face that couldn't scream 'OMGWTF' louder if it tried. "Holy shit, they had him on this stuff? What the fuck is wrong with people from the 1970s?!" Benzodiazepine is dangerous shit, apparently. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wortcunning 2009-12-05 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Russell moved over to her and read over her shoulder in disbelief. "Okay, that does it, he's becoming an inpatient until we've got him properly treated on drugs that won't melt his damn brain." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 05:24 am UTC (link)

Winry continued reading up on the benzodiazepine. "Hey, Russell, it says that valium works to counter that addiction." She glanced up at him. "He's already on that, but let's change his dosage to match whatever he was on with the benzo, and then work him down. Any of those drugs on that list an anti-psychotic? We're gonna have to take him off of any of those, too."

She frowned. "At this rate, I'm tempted to have Ed get ahold of Filia to come cast a Dicleary spell and make it faster and easier on all of us."

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 05:28 am UTC (link)
	"That might be a good idea," Russell said as he turned back to the work of writing up a list of what kind of drugs the new patient was on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	supermans_dead 2009-12-05 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Edward shows up about then, wet hair pulled back in a braid. Apparently, Winry caught him just getting out of the shower. "So exactly what kind of crazy shit will I be transmuting here?" he asks. "Winry, you seemed a bit... uh." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sternerstuff 2009-12-05 05:38 am UTC (link)
	"Boggled?" Winry finished for him. "More like what the fucking all over the place. This guy is on some mind-melting drugs from the 1970s." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	supermans_dead 2009-12-05 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Edward looks at her for a second. "When you start talking like me, I worry, Winry." He steps over behind her, looking over her shoulder at the chemical formulas pulled up. "Those shouldn't be hard to transmute. But what kind of lunatic puts that in his body?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wortcunning 2009-12-05 05:42 am UTC (link)
	"A doctor who thought he was doing a good thing," Russell said. "We're going to try to figure out how to get him off the brain-melters and onto something sane." He paused. "So to speak." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 05:47 am UTC (link)

"He's a soldier, I could tell that much," Winry explained, "and the picture I saw made me think of those Vietnam movies, and I've heard some bad things about the psychiatric care those men received when they got back home."

She looked at Ed. "Hold off on transmuting the Diazepam when you get to it, Ed. I want to find out what dosage of the Benzodiazepine he was on first. And don't transmute the anti-psychotic, that makes the withdrawl from the Benzo worse."

She looked back at Russell. "We're gonna have to see if he'd be willing to talk to us about what symptoms he still has. If he doesn't want to, then I guess we can just hand over a refill, because I did say I could help him, but I want to see if he'll be willing to work with us, first."

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	wortcunning 2009-12-05 07:23 am UTC (link)
	"Would he be willing to work with us if we said this shit is melting his brain into tapioca pudding and we have better alternatives?" Russell shook his head. "Those doctors were the insane ones." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sternerstuff 2009-12-05 07:30 am UTC (link)
	"He might," Winry said. "I didn't talk to him very long, but he might be skittish. And to be fair to the doctors in his time, ours aren't really any better. They can only go by what they know. We're lucky. We have access to better information in the Nexus." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lost_myself 2009-12-05 07:34 am UTC (link)
	Speaking of the skittish, he's followed your directions Winry, and now he's knocking hesitantly on the door. He didn't really expect it to be in an apartment building...but he's seen stranger. He's not sure if Banzai'll be allowed in though. He probably should've asked that...oh well. Knock knock! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wortcunning 2009-12-05 07:36 am UTC (link)
	Russell glanced to the door then to Winry as he stepped over to open it. "Hey, Ken, right?" he asked, glancing back to Winry for confirmation as he stepped aside. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sternerstuff 2009-12-05 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Winry looked up. "Hello, Mister Hidaka." She glanced down, seeing Banzai. "Who's your friend?" she asked, turning in her seat and leaning over, offering her hand to the dog. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lost_myself 2009-12-05 07:41 am UTC (link)
	"His name's Banzai." He has very good puppy-manners. He sniffs her hand and then sits nicely for pets. ♥ "...and just Ken's fine." He didn't feel all that comfortable being called 'Mister Hidaka,' she didn't look all that younger than he was himself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sternerstuff
2009-12-05 07:45 am UTC (link)

Winry obliged Banzai with pettings and chin scritchies. "He's very well-trained," she complimented.

She looked back up at Ken. "Okay, we've gone over the medicines, we have what we need to transmute them for you, but before we do, would you mind if we talked a little bit? I want to ask some questions about some of these, see if maybe we can't start helping you get off the drugs and be able live without them."

She held up a hand to forestall any protests. "If you're not comfortable with it, that's fine, we'll hand over the medicine and that'll be that. But we'd like to help you, and some of these medicines, well... I'd only give them to someone if I were intent on killing that person or making them permanently crazy."

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