marian's monday afternoon with wen qing
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Marian is setting up her extremely questionable ""sterile field"" for doing stitches, but spares five seconds to glance over at the new girl and get a quick sense of how she looks. Basically healthy, or sick? 

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She does not look great, but she also doesn't look like she's about to barf or code or fall over. 

She's sweating slightly despite the fact that the entire Scholomance is a very neutral temperature and she isn't out of breath as though she had just been exercising, and her skin is a little flushed, and she distinctly looks like she is Not Having A Fun Time. 

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"Wen Qing, please ask - uh what's her name again -" vague handwave at the girl they're currently treating, "- if she wants the local anesthetic or if I should just get it over with. I don't think it'll need a lot of stitches, maybe, like, five. ...Uh and once you've explained what I'm going to do and asked her, can you get a set of vital signs on our new girl?" 

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"I can do my pain spell, also, it's less bad if I can take it off when she's done."

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"- Okay yeah that'd be good, less time to kick in and I won't have to stab her with a lidocaine injection needle. Ready?" 

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She casts the spell.

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Oh that's better.

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.....Okay wow doing stitches is weirdly hard? Probably because she's missing a lot of equipment, she's seen doctors do it with two clamps but she has zero clamps and is forced to resort to trying to knot the sutures with her extremely clumsy oversized-gloved-fingers. 

She gets it eventually but it takes a bunch longer than she'd been hoping. Maybe Wen Qing can go ask the new arrival what's wrong and get vital signs on her in the meantime? 

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"What's wrong?" she asks the new arrival. "I'm going to take your vital signs. --Also, what's your name? I need this for my notebook."

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"My name is Anna-Sabrina Sarno. My leg hurts." She gestures tentatively at her right calf. 

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"Temperature 102 degrees Fahrenheit," she reports. "Heart rate 124, blood pressure 140/90."

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Marian is trying to TIE A KNOT and this is stupidly hard but she can multitask a little. "Ask her how long her leg's been hurting and when she started feeling feverish?" 

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"Uh, I hurt my leg a little less than a week before induction...it didn't get better, though, and it's been getting worse since like the day before. I'm not sure about my temperature. I...think Friday? Maybe? I'm not sure."

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"I'm nearly done over here. Ask what kind of injury. ....Also do you think you're up for trying an IV or should I do it when I'm done here? Either way get the supplies for it please." Wen Qing has at this point watched Marian insert a couple of IVs with realtime narration, but they don't exactly have spares for practicing with. 

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"I banged my leg against a broken piece of fence." 

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Aaaaaand stitches are in! Marian will cover and wrap the laceration! They are not particularly skillful or beautiful stitches but they should keep the would closed so it'll heal clean. She's trying to remember how much she has in the way of IV fluids. ...She does have antibiotics, even IV ones, the void had a really hard time with the concept of "antivirals" yesterday and kept trying its best. 

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Wen Qing has prepped the supplies. "I'll try an IV but I want the supervision while I do it."

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"One sec, be right over." Marian is trying, via facial expression and mime, to ask Huang if she's doing okay and also communicate to her that she should stay lying down on the gurney for a bit, and does she want a blanket? 

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Huang will accept a blanket and is content to lie here. Although she is trying to fish her Korean history book out of her bag.

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Wen Qing notices and gets it for her.

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Marian will get her a blanket, though it's the horrible synthetic fake fleece kind that the paramedics use, the kind that has a texture a teeeeeny bit like fiberglass insulation. 

And then she can supervise Wen Qing on her first try for an IV! And give advice if Wen Qing is having trouble finding a place to stick. 

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Huang reads Korean history as fast as she can and holds still for the pros.

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Marian will keep an eye on Huang from a distance while she helps walk Wen Qing through the IV on...damn it what was her name, miserable-looking girl with a fever - Anna something, Marian thinks... 

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If there's two things the Scholomance trains it's precise fine motor skills and carefully following instructions you've heard twice.

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And the Anna-something girl is also not horrifically dehydrated or in shock, at least not yet - the way she looks isn't setting off blaring siren alarms in Marian's head just yet but it's definitely, like, giving her the metaphorical qualia-equivalent of one of those polite yellow flashing traffic 'caution' lights. Wen Qing can get the IV on her first try. 

Marian is JEALOUS. She calmly gets her (once-used) IV tubing, with the painstakingly refilled bag of alchemy-shop Lactated Ringer's solution made by a fourteen-year-old. She hooks this up. 

"Let me have a look at your leg, please?" she says to Anna-something. 

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