The Boyfriend App
“Well, it’s like the chip is the middle man between my brain and my body. My brain gives it a command and it relays it to my limbs. It sort of needs my, um, shall we say… consent before it does something.”
All the while, Nurse Judy presses his tummy, shines a light in his ears, mouth and eyes, listens with a stethoscope to his heart and neck, checks his BP using a cuff and, finally, taps his kneecap with a rubber hammer. Based on his reactions, everything seems normal; even Nate’s knee-jerk reflex, whose testing elicits the exaggerated and multiple motions expected from quadriplegics.
All the Bio nerds of STEM are thrilled to watch a real nurse in action and some are even jotting down their