Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
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"Maybe some of them only work on patients in comas! They'd seem perfectly nice to external observation."

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"I don't think that's a valid nursing specialty but I'm not sure."

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"I don't know either. It seems like it'd be a natural category but I could be wrong."

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"Even if it's a natural category, if a hospital doesn't have enough catatonic people to occupy a nurse full-time they most likely wouldn't have a nurse just for catatonic people."

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"Yeah, makes sense, though I wonder what they combine them with, what wing do coma patients hang out in?"

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"I don't know off the top of my head but that one seems amenable to research." She takes out her phone and checks. "ICU."

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"Huh, I think of coma as being a pretty non-frantic state, but maybe it makes more sense than I'm thinking. I suppose it's possible the media portrayal of coma as sleeping for many years and then waking up fine is likely erroneous."

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"Oh, I know this one--yes, it's definitely erroneous. Coma patients aren't in critical condition like some of the sets of people in ICUs, but they still require large amounts of care--you have to move them to avoid bedsores, and eating and voiding are complicated matters, for example."

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"Makes sense."

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"And even with the best care available their muscles tend to atrophy badly."

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"How fast does that happen?"

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"That, I'm not sure about."

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"One hears about people being put on bed rest, presumably that's also bad - maybe if you're not breathing by machine and sometimes picking up a fork and shifting your feet around that helps at all?"

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"Yes, any kind of voluntary movement at all is better than none...but I think the bedsores thing might extend to people on extended bedrest, too."

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"Even if they can roll themselves over?"

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"I guess a lot of bedrest conditions are ones where you cannot do that."

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"Baklava?" Isabella asks, glancing at their empty plates.

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They split a baklava. It's yummy. Subsequent kisses are honey-flavored.

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Mmmmyes. 

"The greek habit of flavoring things with honey is magnificent--have you had loukoumades?"

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"I haven't unless they have an Americanized name I'd know them by!"

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"How do you puff honey?"

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