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 Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:05 pm
Rep glared the entire time but said absolutely nothing. Awkward.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:23 pm
He looked to her stump of an arm before swallowing. "Right." He had done very little bandaging around the Infirmary, but even he hadn't been able to duck away from most of it. "Right. Let me just get some things." Glancing back at Rep, he felt very self-conscious of the fact he was nearby, and moved over to the counter were all the supplies were kept. Taking off his own gloves, he washed his hands and pulled over a little rolling, stainless-steel tray. He set three pairs of gloves, several packages of dressing, bandage tape, and a small bottle of cleaning in a pink bottle. He didn't look at either of them, taking a breather, before wheeling it over.
When he came over, he held the blankets a moment. "I'm going to need you to sit up with your legs over the side of the bed so I can wrap the bandages around you when we're finished." He told her, and offered his hand if she needed some help.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:30 pm
Rin didn't need the help. Carefully hauling herself up to sit again and turn so her stump was still facing Rep. Carefully inching her legs over the side of the bed. Once she was comfortable she offered Melvin a thumb up, "How's that?"
Rin ignored Rep's glaring so it wasn't at all awkward to her.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:41 pm
Rep wasn't happy to be in the room, wasn't happy to have Melvin there, didn't want to see what he'd done. The thoughts raced in his head and he felt nothing less than trapped. It was horrible. He didn't need to be there, he didn't know how to do the procedures involved and didn't want to learn. He felt like a voyeur.
"This is stupid." he muttered to himself.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:54 pm
Melvin smiled. "Perfect. I'm going to remove the bandages now." He had been taught by the other nurses (Techs or not, he saw them as nurses) on how to change bandages despite trying to dodge the responsibility when he could. One part was to always say what you were about to do. When Rep commented, he didn't bother looking back. "Necessary, Rep. The word is Necessary. If you think it stupid, you could always give it a go." He smiled to Rin as he worked the first layer of bandages from her shoulders and then slowly unraveled them from the top part of what used to be her arm. He hadn't touched her stump yet, and his Adam's Apple bobbed as he removed the heavier bandages to the looser ones below. The smell of iodine rose, but luckily nothing strange or sour that would indicate trouble.
Once white bandages were crumpled in parts, providing cushioning. The skin was a cloudy purple, heavily bruised with shades of gray-green and turning yellow. All of it was sore and he tried to touch very little. His stomach was turning.
Dirty...
"I'm taking the rest off. This is going to hurt." He took the white bandages gently with his gloved hands and pulled them off, setting them in a metal tin that was on the tray, slowly revealing the angry stitching that closed where her arm used to be.
He stopped to take a breath and let Rep have a break from having the bandages removed, instead inspecting the wound a moment. Clean. Sanitized. No secretions, swelling, or angry red coloring that might suggest infection.
"I'm going to touch it next to see if it's hot, then I'm going to clean it." He felt she would know that it would hurt her, but Melvin was at least glad he was going to be dealing with heavy disinfectants. Already he felt like another set of gloves, and he took off the ones he was wearing to throw them in the tin with the old bandages, sanitizing his hands and putting on a new pair now that he was going to deal with cleaning the wound.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:05 pm
Rin gave Melvin a nod as her go ahead before distractedly swinging her legs. It was when he finally got down to the nitty gritty did she brace herself. Legs completely still. She knew it was going to hurt and was grateful for the heads up. Peeling the bottom most layers caused her to sit perfectly erect as she held her breath. It stung to feel the air again on it but at least she quickly adjusted and settled down again.
She knew sadly that wasn't the worst part, the worst part was yet to come so she forced herself to calm down fully before giving him another nod of her head, "I'm ready when you are."
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:15 pm
Rep looked on with a sort of familiarity on the wounds. He'd been sporting some nasty wounds of his own courtesy of Sasha's hooks and thanks to being entirely human at the time, they had almost gotten infected throughout. The smell had been pretty horrendous. This wasn't as bad. It was awful from the point of veiw that he'd done this to her. He'd left her with only one functional limb. But at least it was mending. That was a start.
And at least if Melvin was good at anything, it was this kind of s**t, he seemed to know what he was doing.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:27 pm
He nodded. "Just..holding something." This was not going to be good, and he took a piece of soft gauze and took the pink bottle, pouring cleaner on it before leaning over. He first set a finger against the end, feeling for heart. No, it wasn't too hot. Normal. Not burning up with a infection. Then he set in, trying to be gentle but applying enough pressure to clean about the stitches. First he used the first cloth to wipe around the end, then he used another to clean again, and the last he used to clean all around. Each time the fabric brushed across her stitching, each time she tensed, he clenched his own teeth and kept his stomach down, holding his own breath.
He paused to change gloves. "Take a breath." He told her, taking one himself to let her settle. "Going to wrap it all up now." He put on a new set of gloves, letting the cleaner dry for a moment.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:46 pm
Rin hissed and tried to pull back. She hated this part soo much but knew it was needed. s**t needed to stay clean. It was probably a really good idea Rep didn't do it. She looked over at Rep curiously. He didn't look disgusted? That fact alone seemed to cause her flesh to untense and become much more cooperative.
Rep wasn't as disgusted as she was expecting. But Melvin was.
"Okay," she relaxed obediently as much as possible.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:53 pm
Rep actually propped his chin up on a hand, looking almost bored. Medical procedures were the domain of people who weren't him, and cleaning up injuries didn't really phase him.
"How many ******** times are you going to change your gloves?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:07 pm
Melvin looked over at Rep, looking a bit pale. "One set to take off the old bandages. Since you want to keep it clean, you change bandages so you don't get the old transferred when you are cleaning. New set of gloves for cleaning, but then you need a brand new set in case you cleaned something and then don't want to transfer it over to the clean bandages. It's all to keep an infection from happening. Infections just make it worse." Worse than already loosing an arm. At least explaining gave him something else to focus on for a moment.
He tore a bandage packet open and another, gathering up a bundle of soft gauze in his hands before waiting. "Last part." He told her, before moving in and gently setting the bandages under her stub. Then he took a large bandage patch and set it there. "If you can just hold that there." He told her, and once she did, he brought out the normal bandage roll and started to wrap. It was a delicate process of wrapping it just the right way, tight enough to hold everything in place, not tight enough for circulation, but detailed work was what he was good at. He leaned in, wrapping under her collarbone and then behind her back a few times before he started to tape everything in place.
When it was done, he placed her gown back over her shoulder. "Done."
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:26 pm
Rin just quietly held still for Melvin to do his thing, obediently holding anything she was asked to without a sound of complaint. When he was finally done and redressed her she was smiling at him. "Thanks, you did an amazing job. You were so much more careful and sterile than the other guys. They'd only wear one set of gloves, even."
Her smile softened before she turned it on Rep next, "Now was that so hard?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:31 pm
Melvin got a funny look for his explanation. Rep still felt like hygiene was something that happened to unmanly people.
Rep shrugged non-committally. "It wasn't hard, but it was as pointless as I said. You look like you always did to me. Just down an arm. And its not like something like that would bother me."
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:35 pm
Melvin looked to the both of them, reaching out for disinfectant one last time before settling on Rep. "Are you going to be changing her bandages then?" If that's what he was hearing, he had to wonder how THAT would go.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:56 pm
Rin looked relieved that Rep was more bitchy than disgusted but she still shook her head, "That's not the point. I feel alot better now."
Melvin though got a funny look. There was no way Rep'd do that for her. It was hell just getting him to watch.
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