His True Love

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Chapter Twenty Seven – At a loss

DONATELLO:

 I knew only a little bit about the various street drugs and their effects it could have on the people that used them. It wasn't a subject I had done a great deal of research on just enough to know how to help some of the guests that ended up staying with us from time to time.

I knew nothing about this new drug called Buzz, every year or two there would be a new drug hit the street and become the rage like ecstasy and the date rape drug, this time it was Buzz.

I also had no idea how much of the drug had been administered to Ramiela. Shay had only claimed that she had used a little, but how much exactly was a little? Little didn't tell me what I was up against.

A grain of sand, a pinch of salt, a flea, a pinprick a pebble and a dust speck were all little items. Yet all of them varied in size. Did Shay use more then those items when administering the drug?

No matter how large or small of a size Ramiela received of the drug it was quite obviously playing havoc with her and was proving to be far more then her system could handle.

What really worried me was I didn't know how to begin to go about counteracting the drug and it's present effects on her. But I knew that I had to do something to help her. If I didn't do anything I would feel to blame for not trying to help. However any thing I did to help her might make the situation worst then it all ready was.

 I had taught myself a great deal about handling certain medical trauma, we were all versed in first aid, and I had managed over the years to rig up certain equipment that might come in handy in a serious situation but I knew that I was out of my depth with this one.

Still as I hurried towards home I decided that I would have to treat the symptoms as I would under normal circumstances if that didn't work I could go from there, if there was time to still do so.

Karena looked up as we entered the lair she saw Ramiela's limp form in Mike's arms and gasped with shock her eyes welling up with tears. Karena had acted like a mother to Ramiela over the last few years and she had always been very attached to the youngster and Rama of course was devoted to her and loved her.

 Sara glanced our way and turned to Candy " So that is how Shay goes about not hurting a child. I would hate to see what she intended to do to one she meant to injure then" Sara scoffed her tone harsh and biting and yet her eyes were full of concern.

Mike just packed Ramiela back towards the infirmary while I paused to enlist help " Sara follow Mike see if you can help him out. Karena do me a favour and find all the spare blankets you can and bring them to me."

Karena nodded.

" You also know the herb tea we use to ease heart palpitations, can you make some up for us?"

" Sure Don," She agreed meekly.

Karena had often seen us after battle and had never been this disturbed or upset but then we were used to being hurt in those instances. Ramiela was only a child.

" Is she going to be…?" Karena couldn't finish her sentence.

I didn't know how to answer that not truthfully I shrugged " I hope so" I whispered " Get Candy there to help you she supplied the drug to Shay she might as well do something towards treatment."

Karena whirled on her " If you know anything that might spare that little girl's life now is the time to tell us."

I headed towards the phone I desperately needed to make a quick phone call to Jen. I waited anxiously as the phone rang once then twice by the third ring she picked it up.

" Jen listen its Don and I don't have much time to talk but I need your help."

I listened as she asked what she could do for me.

" I need to know everything you can find out on the new street drug Buzz and e mail it to me as fast as you find it. I will explain why later I don't have time now." I told her.

She could save me some time that way. Right now I had other things to do that would keep me from finding this information. " I need possible treatments used for overdose, a list of ingredients used to make the stuff. Things like that Jen."

Jen assured me that she would get right on it and I gave her a quick thanks and good by before hanging up and sprinting to the infirmary.

Mike all ready had Ramiela on one of the beds Sara was listening to her heart through a stethoscope " It is beating like crazy. I don't know what it is like normally but this sounds much too fast for a human."

" Ours is about normal to a human," I told her.

Mike popped a thermometer out of Ramiela's mouth " Her temperature is down far too low." He reported.

I went to find the heart monitor I had made, it wasn't as fancy as what could be found in a hospital but it worked we had used it on Splinter once when he was suffering from a few heart problems. The heart tea seemed to help him a great deal.

Sara quickly got a syringe and drew a blood sample for me with practiced ease the girl knew her stuff and I was glad of that fact at the moment. She was even recording everything on a scrap of paper.

I hooked the monitor to Ramiela and went to find one more of my little gadgets which would help us get an idea of what was going on with Ramiela's brainwaves.

I wanted all the information I could get.

As I sat down at the infirmary computer which held all of our separate medical information to set it up to break down the information from the heart and brain wave monitors and feeding in the other information we had obtained. The computer would give off an alarm if Ramiela's situation became critical. At the moment it didn't even like what it was receiving now.

I then worked on receiving my e-mails to see if Jen had sent anything yet. Since this computer was for the infirmary I didn't have it set up for e-mails but I could get it to pick up and put through the e-mails that came in on my personal computer.

Karena came in with the spare blankets Candy also carrying a bunch of them. " Do you want them all on Rama Don?" she asked sniffing a little.

" Yeah we need to try and warm her up. Find the winter stock too and bring them in just in case." I told her turning back to my work on the computer.

I knew the winter stock wasn't much better then the thin spare blankets we kept for guests. But at the moment Rama needed all the help she could get.

" I'll go get the winter blankets I know where to find them," Mike offered. I knew that he was trying to keep himself occupied.

I heard Sara page me from where she had set up a slide with Ramiela's blood and was viewing it through the microscope " Don I don't know what to make of this."

I wasn't surprised our blood was different from humans she might be worried only due to it looking stranger then what she was used to. I went over and one look was all I needed to know how much that drug had to be affecting Rama's system and it might continue to do so until the drug worked its way out of her blood stream.

I saw Mike come in with our winter blankets and put them down close by for later use just in case.

He went over to her bedside tenderly caressing her cheek and forehead with a gentle hand " Come on Rama babe fight it girl. Wake up for me honey. Your safe at home now Rama, don't leave me girl." He pleaded with her in a soft whisper.

If Ramiela heard his gentle pleas she didn't respond to them. I could sense Mike's fears and wished that I could lay them to rest and tell him she would be all right and pull through this mess. But I didn't want to give him false hope.

Karena then brought in the tea and I could only hope the herbal ingredients used to ease the heart would not disagree with the components in Ramiela's system from the drug.

I poured a half-cup and inhaled the scent and took a small sip to insure that Karena in her concern hadn't ended up using too much or too little of any ingredient.

Wild red sage root, rose, green tea, Hawthorne, jasmine and a touch of lavender as well. Leo had trained Karena well in healing herbs and medicine and she did have quite a knack for it.

I managed with some difficulty to get some of it into Ramiela in spite of her unconscious state. Then went to check the computer. Hardly had I retrieved the e-mails, and thankfully there were some from Jen mixed in with the lot, when I heard a strange noise behind me.

" Mike help me roll her onto the side I don't think the tea is going stay down and I don't want her chocking on it" Sara ordered.

I whipped about in time to see the tea I had fought to get into her spew from her mouth.

Damn!

She needed her heart to slow down its wild race and fast but it seemed our normal treatment did not quite approve of her system while Buzz was doing its thing.

" Any more bright ideas Don?" Mike asked hopefully. I could see and sense his concerns increase. " How did she do that and still stay so fully out of it?" He muttered ruefully.

" A natural body reaction. She might be out of it but her body still does certain things." Sara replied, " Come on lets clean that mess up."

I sighed wearily wiping a hand over my face in frustration as I realized how much of a loss I was at with this reaction to the tea. We used herbs and old remedies that were based on all natural homeopathic type remedies.

I didn't know if I ought to try it again later in hopes it would stay down or forget all about it and think of other alternatives.

Only problem was what worked for people didn't necessarily work for animals. Reptiles were a different class of themselves due to their cold blooded nature. People could use anesthesia but a reptile placed under anesthesia or even tranquilized to keep it calm could actually die from it. Due to the fact reptilian metabolism was so slow to begin with slowing it down purposely for operations could actually kill the animal. It took a great deal of experience and knows how to find the right balance and some good hands close by just in case something was to go tragically wrong.

We were not quite human not quite reptilian and if what I knew normally worked for us was suddenly not working for Ramiela due to the drug in her blood, then I also knew that I had no idea where to go from there to help her.

If I did something wrong I could easily kill her instead of saving her life. This was the worst possible time for me to be at a total loss.

TBC