But even with complete recovery, some of these children have missed two years of their lives, and that's a big deal. I would never have known that he was sick. 'He is therefore considered to be in need of a safe and stable environment and living conditions in order to recuperate.' " What was his recovery like?
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'The Migration Board finds no reason to question what is stated about Georgi's health,' she read out loud. Their neighbor Ellina Zapolskaia translated it. "In late May, 2016, Georgi's family received another letter from the Migration Board. You did write extensively about Georgi from the Russian province of North Ossetia, who went to bed and stayed there when his family's permit was denied in 2015. His doctors were hopeful that he'd get better, but there have been almost no follow-up studies about what happens to these children. It was almost as if there was a mannequin in the room that I kept forgetting about. We'd be talking - his family, his doctors - and suddenly I'd remember that he was in the room. He was sitting up, but he could not hold his head up on his own. Even though his family had received the residency permit about three months before, the only progress he had made was to open his eyes. He had been apathetic for about two years. He and his mother had received a residency permit already. When the doctor shined a flashlight on the girls' eyes, the one who had been sick the longest, she just sort of stared directly at the doctor as if she didn't even notice that someone was opening her eyelid. When I met them, one of the girls had been in that state for two years, the other one only for a few months. Their doctors were manipulating their bodies, and the girls did not show any signs that they were aware that there were people around them. Her younger sister is also "bedridden and unresponsive." The older sister lost her ability to walk within 24 hours of the family's application for residency being turned down. The two sisters you wrote about were Roma, from Kosovo. People make comparisons to bears hibernating.
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It was a sickening feeling to know that they were in that position for years. There was a disconnect between how young and healthy, even beautiful, they looked. But when I met the two girls I wrote about, it felt very strange. Because I was reading about it in an academic article, I didn't think to doubt it. I first read about it in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Were you initially skeptical that this was a real disorder?
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It reads like one of those ancient fairy tales where terrible things happen to innocent children.