fourth ☕✨ text (AMA! un: mercy)

[cadeuces]

Hello, Lunatia! I hope this finds you all well. I'm Dr. Angela Ziegler, if we've yet to have the pleasure. The doctor who owns the Second Nature (Free) Clinic on the beach in level 2.

I have seen a lot of new faces of late and quite the number of questioning entries, as well as some other Q&As, so I thought that I would offer one a little more... medically professional? And from someone who has been here for a year, now.

I'm sure it is quite disorienting here at times and I would like to offer some peace of mind and an open venue to ask anything you'd like, whether it's about this place or its changes, pre-existing medical concerns, how to administer a massage for a partner, what goes into cybernetics, creating a swedish torch as the weather warms up for hiking, or even simply just coffee shop recommendations. Everyone is welcome to try me.

If even posting anonymously is a bit too much, you are free to contact me privately as well.


( ooc: "trauma surgeon, combat medic, former CMO of a peacekeeping organization, prosthetics/cybernetics specialist, and coffee aficionado, AMA!" time! why is blizzard like this she's so much... please feel free to private lock replies to assume messaging her on the side, remember your content warnings in subject titles for Risky Business topics, ask others' permission before threadjacking, and go wild! )

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[letoldthingsdie]

Being able to massage might be interesting to learn, I'll admit. My partner that I mentioned a while back returned, so I think she might appreciate it that I put the thought into something like that.

[Assuming he learns how to do it right.]

[cadeuces]

Ben, wasn't it?
I'm very glad to hear your companion returned; I told you it wasn't a lost cause, hmm?

I would be more than happy to provide some lessons. Do you know about the most common tension areas?
Ideally, you would come in knowing what will be most beneficial for her so that I can teach you a specific area, such as the neck and shoulders, or the back, or if she's ever injured a leg and it gives her grief depending on the weather— things like that.

It will make for easier lessons to imbibe if I'm not trying to explain the entire body. 🤭

[letoldthingsdie]

She runs a junk shop so she's always working around that and sometimes she'll garden so she's always on her feet or crouching or lifting things like that. I don't know if that all helps, but I guess just being able to give her a moment to relax would be best. Maybe shoulders and back?

[Honestly he knows nothing about this stuff. Help him Angela!! :(]

[cadeuces]

Shoulders and back should do it with that sort of workload, yes. 😊 And you can always learn more at another time, once you have the basics down. A lot of it is just learning to hone the tactile sense in your hands to feel for tension and direction of muscle fiber, then having a basic understanding of how the body is built.

Will you be comfortable practicing on me? Just to feel it out; you don't have to give me a massage! 🤭 And I will do the same for you so you can understand the feeling. I will supplement with anatomical drawings to help you learn, but it is unfortunately something that needs to be hands-on as well. If not, we can arrange for someone else or you can bring your partner, if you don't mind spoiling the surprise.

( That's ok that's why she's here!! She's going to do her best buddy! )

[letoldthingsdie]

Practicing on you would be fine. I wouldn't be able to learn otherwise. I want to be able to keep it a surprise.

[cadeuces]

Then we'll be sure to keep it hush-hush. I'm here every day until 1500, if you recall. Just let me know when you plan on coming by; my schedule is often quite open but I do have a few regular appointments set later in the mornings, most days.

[letoldthingsdie]

I should be able to stop in before that. I'm mostly an early riser. Years of living a military lifestyle and all that.

[cadeuces]

That's right; we had that in common, didn't we? Well then, I'll see you when I see you, Ben.

( ooc: shall we jump to action, or slip it off into a separate catchall log somewhere? ♥ )

[letoldthingsdie]

Old habits die harder than others. I'll see you soon.

[ooc: here you go!]