Preps and Migration Alert Log

[kelsey]

Last night, another patrol of Outriders came in with injuries. Four riders had arrow wounds, one serious. The worst case Kelsey took to surgery; the remaining three I treated in the shade of a nearby wagon. One was to the shoulder, fairly deep and just missed an artery; that one was treated first and the rider sent to the overflow wagon with assistance for 2-3 days of rest. The remaining two were both shallow strikes to extremities, and were cleaned and stitched up, the riders going unassisted to the overflow wagon for 24 hours of rest.
 Numerous cases of dehydration and heat fatigue were treated by Myself, Kelsey, and the four slaves present, as well as by NPC healers. For the record the slaves present at the time were flame, chanz, sareem and ariella, all of whom were instrumental in treating so many dehydrated warriors.

...Arlon

[Taryn]

From Healer Taryn:

Removed an arrow from the throat of one of the injuried Warriors, it entered the right side of his larnyx and came out to the right of his spine, with the help of Latisha, she and I got him stabilized, the arrow was removed carefully as to the location, an IV was started as his skin was wrinkled from the lack of water... he is now resting comfortably, and was being checked on every 4 ahns...

An ASKARI came into the med wagon nearly toppling me over when he stumbled into me, he had a barbed arrow that had been shot through his facial chains through the left side of the bridge of his nose and into his sinus cavity... both of his eyes were blackened and swollen shut... I didn't want to risk giving him any pain medication as the location of the barbed arrow wasn't fully known, he ended up unconscious after Boris gave him a nice right hook into the right side of his head after the ASKARI swung at me while I was trying to dig out the barbed arrow... the wound has been stitched, salved and bandaged... oh and I had orders to remove the straps holding him down after he regained consciousness...

Removed another barbed arrow from another ASKARI, this one was a bit more delicate to deal with as the arrow was in the space of the elbow mostly known as the "funny bone", I gave him a dose of valerian as the pain was extreme, started an IV and worked to remove the arrow, with careful work, I was able to remove the barbed arrow with minimal damage, stitched the inside of the wound with bosk gut, and then sutured the outside as well, then slathered it with agrimony salve, then bandaged it up, he was resting comfortably when I left him, leaving orders with one of the apprentice healers to have him taken to the second medical wagon...

The rest of the night I spent working on other injuried Outriders, Warriors and ASKARI...

Relayed to the Watch Commander of what was going on, I gave him an update of the injuried and that the ASKARI's that were being brought in were part of RAGNAR's patrol, but since I haven't been able to leave my work I couldn't assertain if he was among the injuried or not...

[kelsey]

From Healer Kelsey

I spent most of the night with several other healers in the surgical wagon doing what I could to save the injured men.  Freda and I worked on a man with a wicked gash across his midsection....He remains in critical condition after receiving a blood transfusion during the night....

Several other men did not make it and were bathed and cleaned up as much as possible before being cliamed by their families...

I remain on duty in the Med Wagon

[RAGNAR]

The column has reached The Point. Camp has been made within the palisade.