Ashley POV
I waited in the lab till we got Claudia's result. The technician gave me the results and I opened it quickly.
Bad luck. It didnt show signs of Bacterial Meningitis.
I walked out and searched for Conrad. I found him and walked towards him.
"Hey. The results came" I said handing it to him.
"Negative for Bacterial Meningitis" he said. Devon came in.
"Still no where close in finding what is wrong with her?" He asked.
"We're looking for a zebra" Conrad said. "Guess we should go old school" I said.
"What should we do?" Devon asked. "Talk....talk to the patients people" Conrad said.
All three of us looked at the gang that came to see Claudia.
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I was sitting with Conrad. He was reading a book while I was going through my phone.
"Ash! Conrad!" Devon came running towards us.
"Hey I found it" he said. Both mine and Conrad's attention shifted.
"Claudia was at Running Rapids. War, stagnant water" Devon said .
"So what are we thinking?" Conrad asked. Me and Devon shared a looked.
"Naegleria fowleri" both me and Devon said at the same time. We hi fived each other.
"98% fatal. I don't like those odds" Conrad said.
"Yeah, but the signs and the symptoms.. they all line up. The CSF didn't show the amoeba. Because it was Gram stained. I took a seminar on brain eating amoebas in med school" Devon explained.
Me and Conrad looked at each other. "Damn, we should have attended our seminars" I said.
"If they don't use the Wright -Giemsa, it's almost irresponsible to detect it" Devon said.
"Tell the lab to rerun the sample with Wright-Giemsa" Conrad said.
"Now" I added. Devon ran away.
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Me, Devon and Conrad looked at the sample results.
"There it is. Naegleria fowleri confirmed. Brain eating amoeba. So we administer miltefosine" Devon said.
"Spoken like a true rookie" Conrad commented.
"It's the only chance for a patient with primary amebic meningoencephalitis to survive" I said.
"It's also incredibly expensive with short shelf life" Devon said.
"So I'll give you one guess who doesn't stick this drug?" Conrad asked.
"Chastain" I said.
"And Claudia doesn't have the money for a drug we don't have" Devon said.
"There's got to be some way..." I said and thought about it.
"What if we give glacial sun?" I said.
"That's for inducing hypothermia in cardiac arrest patient" Devon said.
"Yes. If we lower the body temperature to below what the amoeba can survive and then administer the miltefosine, we might have a shot" I explained.
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Savior || The Resident
FanfictionDr. Ashley King. A renowned Resident in Chastian. Her patients love her. She is best friends with Nic and also went to the same Med School as Dr. Conrad Hawkins. He considers her to be a good friend and a collegue. But she had developed a crush on...
