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    Bad Good Bad: Bad good bad, #1
    Bad Good Bad: Bad good bad, #1
    Bad Good Bad: Bad good bad, #1
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    Bad Good Bad: Bad good bad, #1

    By Michel Bluteau

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    After a car accident, Kevin wakes up from a coma in a clinic.  His family provided consent for Kevin to receive a non-invasive brain implant, to provide real-time diagnosis and better his chances of recovery.

    After Kevin returns home to his family, Kim, a young female employed by Neocuris, manufacturer of the implant, shows up at the door with shocking news.  

    Follow Kevin and Kim as they embark into a roller coaster of emotions and intrigues after Neocuris is compromised by hackers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichel Bluteau
    Release dateDec 9, 2016
    ISBN9781540711458
    Bad Good Bad: Bad good bad, #1
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    Michel Bluteau

    With Bad Good Bad, I wanted first to share my passion for science.  I got my M.Sc. in Computational Physics after my undergrad combo Math+Physics.  I ended up enjoying a fulfilling career in Information Security and Identity Management working for major software editors, but I am still reading Scientific American and Discover every month, keeping in touch with the latest science discoveries and insights.  I also have the chance to travel around the world for work.  Bad Good Bad is a collage of all my experiences.  I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, switching hats between reader and writer.

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      Bad Good Bad - Michel Bluteau

      Table of Contents

      Bad good bad | Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Bad good bad

      Chapter 1

      Just picked up a car at the airport in Toronto.  They gave me a Camry this time, nice car, but I don’t enjoy driving anymore, especially in that kind of weather.  This will stop alternating between snow and rain once I head up north for sure, away from the lake effect.  December is here.

      Big customer meeting, but I think I am ready.  Datacenter is too far out for a cab ride.  Whatever happened with that global warming thing...

      What now?  Big accident on the highway, everybody stopped.  Shoot that big truck following me...

      Chapter 2

      Where am I?  What is this place?  Not a hotel room... Hospital bed.  There must be a button somewhere to turn on the light or get somebody’s attention. 

      I see that you are awake, Mr Cole.  You have been lucky, we lost a few lives when that freighter slammed into your group of cars on the highway.  Black ice I guess.  Go easy on the light for now, it may give you a migraine.  You suffered a severe concussion.

      I see a mini Christmas tree on the table beside the bed.  What day is it?  How long have I been here?

      December 29.  You have been here a couple of weeks.  Your family got you transferred here, private clinic part of the Neocuris family, downtown Toronto.  Good  thing your employer has a great healthcare benefits plan, they cover all  the costs.  I am nurse Hanley, Jill, nightshift.  You probably want to call your family in the morning, we kept you in that artificial coma, you should fully recover, but we will monitor you over the next few months.

      Kevin:  When can I expect to go home back in Montreal?

      Jill:  Actually very soon, maybe in a couple of days.  See, they had to operate and remove some pressure in your brain.  They implanted a non-invasive monitoring chip to track your recovery inside your braincase.  You will be able to use your iPhone app to receive information from the chip and upload it to the secure patients vault over the internet.  We will need you to complete some forms here and authorize Neocuris to use this information, and you will be able to use the app to track your health metrics and be alerted if something is not right.

      Kevin:  Wow!  Don’t think I’ve heard of those chips before.  Am I a bionic man or something like that now?

      Jill:  Your family gave consent for you during your recovery, but we need your consent before you walk out if you still want to benefit from the vault.  The chip allowed us to have access to a very precise, real-time diagnostic so we could make the right decisions about your recovery program, at the right time.  Don’t worry, it is proven technology, we have been using the vault to track diabetes and epilepsy cases for a while.  Better diagnostics mean no overmedication and just-in-time remediation.  And full recovery for patients like you.  You family wanted to put all chances on your side.

      Chapter 3

      In the morning, after being awake for most of the night, I got out of bed with the nurses assistance, walked around the room a bit, then the hall.  They have a gym, top notch clinic, and they told me I could start some light exercise tomorrow if I feel okay.  We called home to talk to my wife Carolyn and the kids Sophie, Jonathan and Isabelle, holiday school break.  I could hear they were crying, but very happy to hear my voice.  I can’t wait to go back home and be with you.  Didn’t I leave just yesterday?

      Slowly, I started to remember the last few months and weeks prior to the blackout.  I could not remember what I was doing in Toronto.  Apparently my family and some colleagues visited during my recovery, I can tell by looking at the cards by the window.  When I turned on my iPhone, there was a thousand plus emails, many of them good words from everybody judging by the titles alone, I could not hope to process all those emails and texts in a timely fashion, and anyway my concentration was slowly getting better but still I could not focus on complex tasks yet.  Looking at my calendar, I could see I had a customer meeting outside of Toronto that day, and a note for a rental car reservation, but I could not remember I was there.

      After a few days, I was ready to go home, and my wife Carolyn flew to the island airport to meet me at the clinic and escort me back home.  For me, it did not feel like a 3-week separation, but clearly it did for my wife.  Anyway I started to appreciate that I was still alive, that I had a beautiful family and a beautiful wife, they all need me.  It felt like we met for our second or third rendez-vous as young lovers almost 20 years ago.  No word said about it, but we both knew exactly what the plan was whenever we would find ourselves alone together again.  Electricity like we have not

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