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Moment of Awesome - Clarice Ferguson/Blink: In the aftermath of the nanite invasion, Clarice checks on an injured Doug Ramsey and gives him his new phone - and personally chosen phone case. "Oh good, you're awake," Clarice came into his field of view, her hair in a messy top knot on her head, held back with a sequined scrunchie. The scrunchie matched her scrubs, because that was how she rolled. She also looked like she'd pulled back to back 24's over the past however-many days. That was only partially true, but she and the rest of the medlab staff were all many hours negative on how much sleep they needed due to their patients and medlab requirements to put things back together. "Pain levels?" A slight shift to try and get more comfortable was a very bad idea. Even with whatever pain meds he was still on, Doug definitely felt it and he hissed a drawn out breath. "Somewhere north of 'my pain is not fucking around' but not quite to 'why is this happening to me'. It's definitely getting there, though." "Let me know if you reach the point where I need to 'give your wife your regards as the plane goes down,'" she retorted, though really, his pain should never reach that level. "As for 'why this is happening to you,' it's because you did the stupid," not the bad or the wrong per se, but the stupid. Stupid was practically its own pandemic around there though, including the med staff, so really, that wasn't too bad. Not that he had actually asked that question. "Any real questions for me though?" "I mean, from a medical standpoint?" Doug had plenty of questions, but most of them weren't likely to be the sort Clarice could answer. He shifted again and winced. "How about we start with how long I should expect to be in here?" "A few more days. Not more than a week," Clarice answered matter-of-factly. It helped that he lived a few floors up, but they needed to make more repairs before releasing him into the wild. "We'll wean you off the good drugs and get you up and moving. But you'll be so full of regret by that point, you won't try any shenanigans for a while. And of course, you'll have to start OT and PT. We're getting that arranged." By necessity, it would be in town. Oh goody, now to add 'medically recommended torture' for his body on top of the massive amounts of talking he was going to likely be doing with Dr Grim. Doug grunted in acknowledgement. "Okay, second question. What are the odds of getting a really enormous plate of food in here?" He was famished. "I can send someone. You get a choice. Oatmeal or soft soup. Be nice to your body," she wasn't heartless though, they would be flavoured. Just not a lot of hard stuff. Between the amputation and the meds, his stomach was likely to be sensitive for a couple days, "And you gotta poop later."