>> Walking to the Surgical Bay 2 >>
As they went Jez had a few questions for the Doctor. “Dr. Lim, will my baby be aware of where she is? Will she know what's going on? Will she ... no memory engrams have developed at this stage?”
There was a barrage of questions.
Dr Lim was silent for a few moments as they walked. She wasn't contemplating her answers to the hand full of questions. She knew the answer. Lois was surprised that Jez did not seem to know. She began to put two and two together.
One would think that a young female of her age, would know the answers to those question? Maybe she is mentally destabilising? If I see one more hesitation like this, I may have to suspend her from duty and have her mentally and emotional evaluated. She at least needs to learn how to control her feelings. Some Vulcan technics would help. She can't go through life being driven by her feelings! Grief and trauma shock can often bring on these types of episodes. I've just got to be calm, answer the question, watch for more signs and be ready to act. If I suspend her from duty, then she will be off the ship at the next federation colony with a decent psychological trauma ward. I don't want to do that, but if she refuses the procedure, refuse the treatment that she has been wanting from the first time I saw her, I will have to act, for her safety and for those working with her, and immediately inform the captain. Oh, please Jez, don't go there, girl, please?
"Jez do you remember being in your mother's womb? No of course not. No species' embryo's I know is developed enough at your stage of pregnancy, to remember anything. They don't even have a brain to register feelings yet. They may react to the mother's hormones if they get through placental protections, that would be about all. When an embryo is frozen, it's very quick, almost instantaneous, from then time will stand still for your baby and when the baby is born the baby won't know a thing, except she out in the real world for the first time and suckling on her mother's breast, 'safe as Larry'."
Oh, I hope I'm wrong about Jez.
Lios remembered a case study in a seminar she had attended, of a Vulcan Starfleet officer named Ptou'zin who had a mental break down and even the Vulcan's could not but her back together. She eventual died, but that was because of a forced mind meld where she was made to forget that she witnessed the murder of her mentor and friend. Grief, trauma and stress lead to emotional overload. Lim felt that the similarities of the cases were not the same but they were very similar. Shocking trauma, grief, leads to emotional breakdown can lead complete breakdown. It is a common process in most species.
== In the surgical Bay 2 ==
"Jez, Jez, any question? Are you ready? Doctor Lim asked again.
As they went Jez had a few questions for the Doctor. “Dr. Lim, will my baby be aware of where she is? Will she know what's going on? Will she ... no memory engrams have developed at this stage?”
There was a barrage of questions.
Dr Lim was silent for a few moments as they walked. She wasn't contemplating her answers to the hand full of questions. She knew the answer. Lois was surprised that Jez did not seem to know. She began to put two and two together.
One would think that a young female of her age, would know the answers to those question? Maybe she is mentally destabilising? If I see one more hesitation like this, I may have to suspend her from duty and have her mentally and emotional evaluated. She at least needs to learn how to control her feelings. Some Vulcan technics would help. She can't go through life being driven by her feelings! Grief and trauma shock can often bring on these types of episodes. I've just got to be calm, answer the question, watch for more signs and be ready to act. If I suspend her from duty, then she will be off the ship at the next federation colony with a decent psychological trauma ward. I don't want to do that, but if she refuses the procedure, refuse the treatment that she has been wanting from the first time I saw her, I will have to act, for her safety and for those working with her, and immediately inform the captain. Oh, please Jez, don't go there, girl, please?
"Jez do you remember being in your mother's womb? No of course not. No species' embryo's I know is developed enough at your stage of pregnancy, to remember anything. They don't even have a brain to register feelings yet. They may react to the mother's hormones if they get through placental protections, that would be about all. When an embryo is frozen, it's very quick, almost instantaneous, from then time will stand still for your baby and when the baby is born the baby won't know a thing, except she out in the real world for the first time and suckling on her mother's breast, 'safe as Larry'."
Oh, I hope I'm wrong about Jez.
Lios remembered a case study in a seminar she had attended, of a Vulcan Starfleet officer named Ptou'zin who had a mental break down and even the Vulcan's could not but her back together. She eventual died, but that was because of a forced mind meld where she was made to forget that she witnessed the murder of her mentor and friend. Grief, trauma and stress lead to emotional overload. Lim felt that the similarities of the cases were not the same but they were very similar. Shocking trauma, grief, leads to emotional breakdown can lead complete breakdown. It is a common process in most species.
== In the surgical Bay 2 ==
"Jez, Jez, any question? Are you ready? Doctor Lim asked again.