Well, emotional wounds run slower than physical ones in many ways. EMTs divide injuries into: * things that will kill your patient in five minutes. * things that will kill your patient in an hour. * things that will kill your patient today. * things you don't really care about.
So a week is about what it takes for the first shock to wear off. That's when the worst compounding damage can be done, when people are highly likely to do stuff like walk in front of a bus accidentally or on purpose because they just aren't able to function normally right after a major trauma. Memories often don't set clearly during this time. But the emotional sense can still come through.
That first support isn't about repair, it's all damage control. Actually fixing things once Bruce came back to himself would've taken longer, but that's a different ball that got dropped.
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* things that will kill your patient in five minutes.
* things that will kill your patient in an hour.
* things that will kill your patient today.
* things you don't really care about.
So a week is about what it takes for the first shock to wear off. That's when the worst compounding damage can be done, when people are highly likely to do stuff like walk in front of a bus accidentally or on purpose because they just aren't able to function normally right after a major trauma. Memories often don't set clearly during this time. But the emotional sense can still come through.
That first support isn't about repair, it's all damage control. Actually fixing things once Bruce came back to himself would've taken longer, but that's a different ball that got dropped.