ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sᴘᴀᴄᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ( ᴏ ᴘ ᴇ ɴ )

[milagros]

CHARACTERS: Dr Mila Gallo and you.
LOCATION: Medical Bay; Dr Gallo's office.
WARNINGS: Terrible bedside manner. (I'll update with appropriate warnings as necessary. Let me know if I miss something!)
SUMMARY: Dr Gallo's door is always open.
NOTES: TL;DR since so much of her CR is taking on various weird and wonderful medical cases, and she's always referring blandly to her office hours, why not an open log. Do not feel obliged to be a sicky. Perhaps you actually want to visit her and she's generally easiest to find at work. Also, I will match whatever format you tag me in.

( one day is very like another. dr gallo has a regular case load she wouldn't have anticipated, when she first positioned herself with medical, but even so, plenty of her time is left to busy-work, as much because she's at work too much as for any other reason. but what else is she going to do with herself? there's only so many looping runs she can take, so many times she can punch a swinging bag she would never admit to solomon she's imagining lindberg's smug goddamn face on, so many hours that can be spent in communion and contemplation in the oxygen gardens. it is not accidental that very little of what she does in the hours not spent here involves anyone else, either, so there's that.

so she's here, a lot. she keeps meticulous and detailed notes - refreshes herself periodically on old case files, those belonging to patients no longer aboard the ship, because you never know. they might be back, or it might prove relevant to something else, or-- a hundred other things. she has blood samples for projects that have been indefinitely shelved due to a jump absence and paperwork to go along with it, her record-keeping slightly idiosyncratic but nevertheless thorough, and (mostly) available to her colleagues where required. she's not the most forthcoming of women, professionally or personally, and she's been known to make unilateral decisions about what is and is not need to know information.

it usually plays out in her favour. still.

she can be found in her office, which - after months - is finally starting to look like it's used by a particular person, and not just as a very clean and oversized spartan storage closet with a desk and a coathook. )

Comments

[milagros]

You have pharmaceutical options, which is where I could be of more direct assistance.

( she wouldn't even have to reinvent the wheel on this one, unlike for certain individuals of impaired vitality. )

There are a number of different drugs - generally designed with birth control in mind - that can have an impact on your menstrual cycle, be it to reduce or completely suspend it. It's more of a gamble, in that for as many people on those medications who find they no longer experience a cycle at all while they take it, there are those whose bodies react in the opposite way.

( turning every day into that scene from the shining, for instance, which is a bad enough time when your menstrual cycle isn't contributing to gender dysphoria. )

[charges]

[He thinks it over for a few seconds, going quiet. Honestly, it's probably for the best that she's so direct with him, dispenses with the warm and fuzzy. Krem likes direct. He's used to direct.

He nods a little.]

Maybe that's best. See how it works out, start from the bottom, that way I can stop once I reach a place I'm alright, instead of ripping everything out from the start.

[He nods a little. The other soldiers used to tease him, with his unmarred face, arms unscarred expect for what appeared to be the odd knife nick here and there. They used to say that he never bled, that he was too careful. You're not a real soldier until you're banged up and bloodied.

Krem knew better- men like him, and women, they bled like they were in a constant war, and sometimes it seemed like they were.]

[milagros]

If you want to explore more permanent options down the track, they'll still be available to you, ( in a tone that signifies agreement. )

Most of these drugs are designed, as I say, for the purposes of birth control - as much as they're also used to control menstruation, it's technically a side-effect, so it can be hit or miss and we may need to trial different things before we find something that works for you. It may also take several months for your body chemistry to adjust.

[charges]

[He nods softly. It was better than nothing, and going slow was what he wanted. Much as he hated things when he was younger, he had made as much peace as he could with himself.

That didn't mean that he wouldn't take the chance to go to sleep and wake up in the right body, it just meant that his didn't hurt him so much anymore.]

That works for me.

[milagros]

Excellent. I'll look into what we have in stock and what I can feasibly synthesize if we don't have it, and I'll be in touch with you about it when I've got some options to start working through. In the meantime, do you need anything?

( does he have any other medical concerns. does he have tampons. etc. )

[charges]

I'm...let me think.

[He makes a little face, counting mentally, how many weeks had it been?]

What do you use for the bleeding, here? I'm guessing it's probably different than back in Thedas.

[If he could do away with having to nick rolls of bandages from Stitches, he'd be happy about that. Not to say it was a big secret, everyone understood Krem, at least, the rest of The Chargers did. He was pretty sure that Stitches left the bandages out when he got them so Krem could steal some.]

[milagros]

There are a few different options. Do you prefer something that can be inserted or something you wear externally?

( that sure is a question.

... mila doesn't come across as if she's ever, in her life, blinked at discussing that sort of thing. or maybe anything else, ever. so there's that. )