They begin the rundown with Izzie, of the multiple and invasive surgeries she has in her future, including harvesting her eggs....just in case (spin off anyone?). The first surgery they will be conducting is on her brain. Derek is surprised this wasn't caught sooner as this type of condition usually causes severe hallucinations. Perhaps if Izzie hadn't been enjoying ghost sex so much, or relying on moronic interns to diagnose her with anemia, they would have found this sooner. Once Bailey and Derek have handled their portion of Izzie's treatment the Cancer Doctor steps in. She tells Izzie that she better get used to the idea of being cut open a lot because there is about to be a lot of it. She seriously says it about that bitchy too. Cancer Bitch isn't messing around. She reiterates that fact, when she tells everyone in the room that she is overseeing all of Izzie's surgeries and that they all now answer to her.
After Cancer Bitch lays down the law, all the Doctors leave except for Izzie's peeps-the three residents. They all stand there awkwardly, as none of them have ever had to be good friends before so they don't really know what to do. After a couple seconds Izzie encourages them to all go back to work and save lives. Their more relieved then when a Charm school contestant gets a negative STD test back, and take off. Izzie is all alone with her knitting.
Later on Alex peeks in to Izzie's room, as if she couldn't see him standing there, but doesn't enter. Derek and Bailey are coming to answer any final questions Izzie may have before taking her into surgery. Before they enter they ask Alex if he has any questions as if he were her husband or parents. Alex simply requests that Derek try to not f anything up this time and kill her, like he did his last patient. Ah, nice pep talk Alex.
As a side note, I missed the first season of Grey's Anatomy. Did we learn at some point that Izzie has no family or other friends besides the people in the hospital? I mean, yea it's crappy that her resident friends are avoiding her like stage 4 canc....I mean, the plague, but where is everyone else? No wonder she hallucinates friends.
In the obligatory side story, we meet Sloan's patient for the day. It is a very old woman who he gives less than 24 hours to live. Her three visitors press Sloan for a timetable of how long exactly she has, because one has a meeting in the morning that he can't miss and another has a plane he needs to catch that night. Who says that family unit is failing.
In a more nurturing story line, the Chief pages Alex to discuss Izzie's eggs. I don't know what's going to get Alex more turned on this episode, talking about harvesting eggs or that puke green afghan Izzie is knitting. The Chief reminds Alex that they are harvesting eggs, but the eggs have a better chance at harvesting if they are fertilized. There is a lot of hemming and hawing from the Chief as he fumbles with a plastic cup, and a lot of WTF faces from Alex until Alex breaks the awkwardness by grabbing the gizz jar and stalking off.
Torres and Grey quietly talk about Yang, who is standing about 10 feet from them, discussing how she's doing. As they are talking, Major RedFace begins to walk down the hall. See now is when they should play that creepy Victorian music. As he approaches Yang, Torres and Grey stand in front of him and stare him down. As intimidating as their wall isn't the Major never has been good at staring contests so he retreats and walks away.
Up on the roof the Major and Derek wait for an incoming trauma coming via helicopter. When the helicopter lands, the Major gets momentarily paralyzed by the helicopter blades, similar to his reaction to the fan blades right before he strangled Christina. Derek notices that the Major looks like the remaining 4 eggs fell out of his basket. On another note, I'm not sure what Grey and Torres are so worried about. Is this the face of a crazy person?
In the on call room Alex is ready for sexy time with the cum cup.
And how could you not get turned on when your partner looks this good.
Alas he is blissfully interrupted by his pager and leaves the unfulfilled specimen jar semenless.
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Comments (11)
"She reiterates that fact, when she tells everyone in the room that she is overseeing all of Izzie's surgeries and that they all now answer to her."
Izzie should have stopped her at that point, and said, "NO. You all answer to ME." Because everyone on this show forgets that the patients aren't lab rats...they're people who are suffering.
(Sorry...it's a sore point with me, having just watched the care my brother-in-law recieved while he was dying of cancer.)
1 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on April 21, 2009 11:51 AM
I seem to remember from one of the earlier seasons that Izzie's family was trailer trash...Remember Izzie was a teenage mother and gave her daugher up for adoption. Sharon Lawrence is going to be on sometime in the next few weeks playing izzie's trashy mom.
2 of 11 | Posted by mariabird522 | Posted on April 21, 2009 7:26 PM
Does anyone else feel this way: I used to think the Major was hot, but now I just look at him and notice he has no eyebrows. Maybe it's from seeing his pearly whites--pecs that it.
3 of 11 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on April 21, 2009 9:23 PM
Odd coincidence, but I'm the wife of a an army doctor who was in Baghdad from 2005-2006. Yang handled the situation exactly the way I would have (including the sex part to make him feel better after almost killing her). I was pissed at Grey/Callie for treating the Major like he was going to lunge for Christina while he was awake. He's not a serial killer, people, he was having a flashback. I also love that she broke it off to force him to finally get help.
I was a lot more shocked that the writers spared us a long, irritating good-bye scene between Izzy and Denny, since the surgery would send him away for good.
4 of 11 | Posted by Emmyloo | Posted on April 22, 2009 6:30 AM
I found the strangling scene upsetting for the reasons others have stated, but also because I've lived my adult life with the effects of all that simplistic stereotyping of vets (in my case Vietnam) on TV and film - of us being loose cannons that could randomly go off at any time. I don't expect to benefit from my service, but I shouldn't have to hide it, as if I were some sort of sick pervert, either.
Semper Fi
5 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on April 22, 2009 9:44 AM
"I think they could've stressed how messed up he is from war without having this creepy strangling story. But that's just me."
It's entirely possible that they could've gone another direction to show how Owen's PTSD is really affecting him. But, I think that it had to be something as drastic as him nearly killing Christina during a flashback in order for her to break it off with him, thereby serving as the catalyst for him going to get help.
6 of 11 | Posted by crmsnkatt | Posted on April 22, 2009 10:21 AM
fire@will...may I say, very sincerely, thank you for your service.
7 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on April 22, 2009 11:17 AM
cattyfan:
You may. (and thanks)
8 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on April 22, 2009 8:17 PM
these comments are too intense for my liking... I'm just glad Greys is back again I was literally going out of my mind. Any idea how they're gonna kill George off?
9 of 11 | Posted by nyla23 | Posted on April 23, 2009 4:21 AM
nyla23:
I envision Izzie needing some sort of crazy transplant..George, of course, will step up to the plate. Everyone will be concerned about Izzie obviously, but it will be George who dies, giving his life for Izzie.
10 of 11 | Posted by mariabird522 | Posted on April 23, 2009 4:49 PM
fire@will, I remember those days in the late '70s and early '80 when the killer on every cop or detective show became was always a Vietnam vet, either nuts or getting revenge for something, or both. It's appalling how little care and attention war veterans get without adding a stigma to having served your country in a war. Mental and physical trauma and illness is something to be treated, not ignored and/or stigmatized.
Anyhoo, I didn't realize George was going to die. I figured that Izzie either goes off to die somewhere, and he goes with her, or some variation on that. But maybe they will pull a thirtysomething and unexpectedly get killed in an accident just as Izzie gets the news that she is in remission. (I knew he was leaving, but I didn't know how.)
11 of 11 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on April 23, 2009 9:43 PM