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Doc's heart sunk as he watched ans sighed. The reality of his fears set in. Doc wasn't a doctor of the mind. It was evident that it would take someone who was handy with the mind and not the scalpel.
He just looked at Hilda blankly. "I'm sorry, Hilda. I'm going to at least consult a colleague of mine. He may be more suited to helping her than I am. As I feared, matters of the mind are something I have no formal training in."
He watched as she pressed her little ear to her mother's belly and gently shook his head and softly spoke, "She still seeks the unborn child that is no longer there."
Hilda raised a hand to Doc. "Herr... Doktor... I think... she is grieving..." She then stroked the back of Gretel's head. "Gretel... I know that you... miss her und your Vater..." Gretel moves to look up at Hilda. "But... I don't want to lose... you too..." Hilda slowly picked up Gretel up and the girl looked at her wiping her tears away. "Please... I... need you... to... understand... that there is gut in die world... und..." Hilda looks upset herself now. "Und I will try everything to make you happy again... everything..." Gretel just looks back at her Mother her mouth open. "Mutt... Mutt..." Gretel tries to speak but stops. "Herr Doktor... I need some time alone... with her..." Hilda said hugging Gretel closely. "Mien medical report should be in die study... by now..."
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Doc just nodded his understanding. Re-filling his mug, he gave a re-assuring pat on Hilda's shoulder as he walked by, "I'll be in the study reading through the report."
He also gave Gretel's hair a kind stroke as he left.
He sat at the desk in the study, put on his glasses and started reading the report, starting with the basics.
"Tall lady," he commented as he started.
Quote:Name: Hildagarten von Ludwigsberg
Eyes: Brown (20/20 uncorrected)
Hair: Black
Height: 72"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Doc commented again to himself with a sip of his coffee, "She holds her figure well, doesn't she John."
Quote:Children: 3.
Spouse: Gunter (Deceases)
Medical History: No allergies or severe illnesses. One miscarriage.
Blood Type: B Pos.
Doc again took another sip as he prepared to read into the meat of the report. "OK, Hilda, let's see what I can do for you."
The report seemed to be ordenery enough to begin with mainly common childhood injuries and illnesses untill it reched her eighteenth year where it states.
Quote: Date: 23/3/808
Patient: Hildagart. W. Weber
Injuries: Mutiple fractures to ribs, arms, legs and spine. Major lacarations across 30% of body. Interal bleeding detected.
Treatment at time of writing: Patient stablised but remains critcal.
Prognosis: Grim to grave. If patient survives she will never walk again.
If Doc read on he would see for the next ten months Hilda was almost 'rebuilt' apart from that her spinal cord was still severed and that there was no infomation aboyt how she got her injuries apart from that the LWB may have been involed.
Even more intrestingly the next thing on the report was the birth of her children.
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He continued reading the file, sipping his coffee as he did. This was what he understood, the body aspect of medicine. He found the part about injuries sustained from probably the LWB. He knew and had dealt with the LWB before but with more favorable results and conditions. He also knew that they could be brutal in their methods if they chose to be. F
Her being 18 years of age at the time told him something about her. She was resilient and tough. Still, his curiosity grew as he read about a still severed spinal cord and rebuilding her. He would make it a point to ask her about it later.
It also told him that despite such crippling injuries, she was still able to have children and lead a normal life.
He read on the miscarriage, the most recent before reading about the birth of her other children.
Quote:Miscarriage in 2nd trimester due to severe mental trauma due to loss of husband.
He sipped his coffee as he nodded. She wasn't the first woman nor would she be the last to lose a child in the womb nor would she be first or last to lose one to stress. With the varying wars around Sirius and Gallia, he had heard this before.
From what he was reading, there was nothing that indicated that she couldn't give birth again if she wanted to but he also understood that she was a woman of moral values. This all made Doc smile a bit as he felt that his initial course of action would be to work on her sense of well being as the best way to bring her and her children out of the deep, dark, hole of depression that they were in.
Now he read on the birth of her children. It made for some interesting reading indeed.
The reports of her children's births where neatly arranged within the file though they were in chronological order, her second son's birth was first while her first son's was last. This shouldn't be normal if they wasn't in alphabetical order.
The reports where typically Rheinlandic not a single line of fluff or drama just the hard facts.
Quote: Child's Name: August Friedrich von Ludwigsberg
Mother: Hildagart Sophie von Ludwigsberg nee Weber
Father: Gunter Ferdinand von Ludwigsberg
Date of Birth: 14 / 5 / 814AS
Birth Weight: 7 lb 9 oz
Details of Birth: Mother refused pain medication of any type.
The lack of pain medication didn't seem to be that much of an issue though once he read the details of Gretel's birth something would seem to be very odd.
Quote: Child's Name: Gretel Josefine von Ludwigsberg
Mother: Hildagart Sophie von Ludwigsberg nee Weber
Father: Gunter Ferdinand von Ludwigsberg
Date of Birth: 1 / 12 / 856AS
Birth Weight: 5 lb 12 oz
Details of Birth: Mother refused pain medication of any type, birth was in breach.
Why would Hilda refuse pain medication for a breach birth unless it had something to do with her spine, though even then it was very odd that there wasn't a Caesarean either. Though the birth of her eldest was rather normal.
Quote: Child's Name: Wilhelm Albrecht von Ludwigsberg
Mother: Hildagart Sophie von Ludwigsberg nee Weber
Father: Gunter Ferdinand von Ludwigsberg
Date of Birth: 24 / 7 / 812AS
Birth Weight: 9 lb 1 oz
Details of Birth: Mother refused pain medication of any type.
The lack of pain medication was common theme throughout the report after her major injury but nothing about how her spine was repaired which means that either it was omitted or that the report was incomplete.
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Doc continued reading with great interest. He read things several times out of habit to be sure he didn't overlook something. Either this woman had a high threshhold to pain or someone isn't revealing a secret. Maybe she knew of it herself or maybe she didn't. Nerves didn't regenerate on their own and treatments for this were still in their infancy. Doc smirked at a thought and said quietly to himself, "Nanites....I have plenty of them."
It was obvious to him though that she liked being a mother. Her kids were spaced out pretty evenly and she wanted more. Still, from what he read, there was nothing that said she wouldn't be able to. It was becoming obvious that a full examination of her would be in order. It would tell him everything and then some. He COULD do it with what he had but having either access to a full medical facility or a Med Force asset would be best. For now, Doc continued reading.
The rest of the report was filled with the typical details of a mother, filled with baby scans and test results. But something seemed off as when he read on it seemed there was a missing page.
Quote:Patient seems to exibit sighs of impovement but sill cannot move or feel her legs-
The report then skips to her check ups for her first child.
Quote: The patient seens to be suffering acute morning sickness, she also complains of back pains and fatige.
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Doc rubbed his chin as he read. His coffee now empty, he knew something wasn't right...but how to address it? Militaries were always secretive but it was info that he needed. He put the info down, grabbed his cup and went to get a re-fill.
He quietly entered the kitchen, not sure if she was there with Gretel. His intention was to re-fill and go back to the report, possibly using his own com to see about tapping into records if necessary.
Both Gretel and Hilda where asleep in a hugging embrace on one of the more comfortable chairs as Doc entered the kitchen, it seemed that Gretel had either recognized her mother or had been grieving.
There was a note on the table written in both Rheinlandic and English which said try not to disturb them and that it seemed that Gretel was most likely in the process of grieving.