| rdfs:comment | - Mother always told you, "Put your jacket on, you'll catch pneumonia!" In Real Life, exposure to the cold weakens your immune system, and damages the cilia in your respiratory system that sweep the microbes away from your lungs. But you don't always get sick in bad weather, especially if you're a healthy twentysomething. Moreover, in real life infections have an incubation period. Symptoms usually don't appear right away. This tends to happen very early in a relationship, shortly after the couple meets for the first time. Examples of Instant Illness include:
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| abstract | - Mother always told you, "Put your jacket on, you'll catch pneumonia!" In Real Life, exposure to the cold weakens your immune system, and damages the cilia in your respiratory system that sweep the microbes away from your lungs. But you don't always get sick in bad weather, especially if you're a healthy twentysomething. Moreover, in real life infections have an incubation period. Symptoms usually don't appear right away. In TV land, a man endures the elements for just a few hours for a woman and suddenly he's got a fever so bad he collapses. The obvious solution is Intimate Healing, because it always happens at night and hospitals are just too inconvenient or far away. This sometimes comes from Caught in the Rain, if the man lends his jacket to the woman until they find shelter. The man sometimes wakes up in the Apply Head Directly to Lap position. Sometimes leads to the Florence Nightingale Effect. While the man's unconscious, he can talk in his sleep. The woman might change her clothes in front of him too, after all, he's not going to see anything. Unless he wakes up right then, of course. This tends to happen very early in a relationship, shortly after the couple meets for the first time. Examples of Instant Illness include:
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