Tucked away inside your sleeves -- 2.3

[sansunparapluie]

Sixty-two miles; Jinki/Taemin; PG-13
note: Meant to mostly write this as the way Taemin experiences things; somehow moved away from that more than I expected in this portion of the story.

1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | int. i | 2.1 | 2.2 | part 2.3

Comments

[effi_g]

You are so right!! I don't think the general public has any real idea of how a coma patient is treated. It's always so glorified, and the patients are so very perfectly placed on the bed with no hair out of place. They don't realise that family often go in every day to groom their family members to give them that small ounce of dignity, and that the nurses have to care for them every other moment of the day. They don't know about the tubes and machines, and worst of all, they don't know the liklihodd of someone waking and being perfectly fine. So yes I definitely appreciate it :P When I read things that I know are incorrect it makes it hard to stay engaged in the story line, it looses it's flow. Btw I'm an occupational therapist ^^ yay me! still only a new one though.

I'm very much looking forward to how you progress through the rest of it, even though, as you say, you ar using very standard plot progression, I still can't really predict what will happen. And thank goodness you aren't going for the miracle approach. "and then they woke up" Bah! haha i read a fic a little while ago with that statement and raged!! lol

OMG is that the sequel I am thinking of?!?!?!

[sansunparapluie]

Someone who knows and agrees! /high five xD

I can understand how the real thing might not be story-ready because it isn't as -- for lack of a more sensitive term -- pretty as movies and stuff need it to be. This happens for all sorts of diseases that fiction feels like romanticizing (leukemia, for example). But in my mind it sorta is an inadvertent evil because when it then happens in real life, people might have all the wrong expectations. :( Going back to comas specifically, in the stories, they pretty much always wake up (and always do so instantaneously!) and when they do, they are clear-minded. The greatest setback is some form of amnesia. Besides that, they just jump right back into life, even if they'd been in a coma for years. I'm no expert but from what I do know, more often than not, waking up isn't the end of all problems (that is if they wake up in the first place). They may be faced with any of a whole array of intellectual and physical difficulties. (e.g. I've heard that sometimes they can't speak properly.) And psychologically/emotionally, I imagine it wouldn't be all that easy to adjust.

Admittedly I'm guilty of some coughhypocrisycoughromanticizingcough in "Countdown", but in my defense I feel that the atmosphere of it didn't quite allow much detail, whether realistic or not. I'm saving some of the less 'pretty' images of what happens for a potential follow-up though. (But this is not the sequel I was talking about. For that sequel, if you're thinking of boys on bicycles, then bingo!)

And I know what you mean about the flow! My friends and I joke that it gets harder to appreciate fiction as we become better educated in the sciences. Like, quite a bit of crime shows are just science fiction, not science. xD But you know, what can we do about it? And with fanfic, I feel it'd be too troll-like to point out stuff such as how corneal transplants aren't done with live donors. Good writing is good enough; accurate writing is icing on the cake!

OT! What area do you practice in, if you don't mind me asking? O:

I rage when people can't kill off their character when the time and the circumstances are appropriate. It's like OMG HE/SHE IS DEAD...psych!