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Grey's Anatomy: Six Days, Part 1

I must start by saying that nothing is more disappointing than waiting weeks for a new episode of any TV show only to have it end with: “to be continued.” The writers and producers and networks love to do that to us and I guess I must be willing to put up with it because I still watch and love TV. However, this particular instance of being strung along was worth it because this week’s episode was great.

The main story line was about George’s father’s cancer surgery. The fact that George (played by T.R. Knight) is so different than the rest of his family is evident, again. His brothers are portrayed as buffoons- buffoons who love their father, but buffoons none-the-less. The entire extended family is in complete denial about the seriousness of his father’s condition, evidenced by the party atmosphere in his room the day before his operation.

However, Mr. O’Malley does realize his mortality is on the line and makes Dr. Webber (played by James T. Pickens) and Dr. Bailey (played by Chandra Wilson) promise that if they open him up and realize the cancer has spread to multiple organs, that they will not close him up and have him just wait to die, but promise that they will take all of the tumor out no matter how bad they think it is. Mr. O’Malley’s belief is that he is a fighter and can fight it if they give him a chance. He is not ready to die and leave his family. Webber and Bailey reluctantly agree and are then bound by doctor-patient confidentiality not to tell George.

Before his surgery, Mr. O’Malley tries to apologize to George for the things he did wrong, but George says he can’t act like he is going to die before going into surgery. George’s dad does let him know one thing: George shouldn’t give up on a relationship with Callie, because as Mr. O’Malley says, “She gets you, like we never got you, and I’m sorry for that too.”

Of course, when Webber and Bailey open Mr. O’Malley up they discover a very pervasive tumor. Meredith (played by Ellen Pompeo), the intern for the surgery, is stunned when Webber and Bailey fulfill their promise by removing it. Meredith is then told by Bailey that the patient’s wishes fall under doctor-patient privilege and George must not find out.

George is pacing the waiting room during the surgery by himself when Callie (played by Sara Ramirez) comes by to tell him it is ok to be scared. George denies being scared and Callie attempts her “Dr. Bailey stare” to try and break him into admitting his fear. It doesn’t work on George. Bailey and Grey arrive to fill George in on the surgery. George walks his brothers and mother to the ICU to see their dad after surgery and prepares them for how bad Mr. O’Malley may look: he’ll still have the tube in his mouth and that his scar is going to be quite large. George’s brothers respectfully listen to him, for once. Mrs. O’Malley rushes to her husband’s side and one of the buffoon brothers comments on how their dad looks like he’s been to the butcher, but it is George who cannot bring himself to his dad’s bedside. He prepared his family but not himself. Meredith comforts George and he embraces her saying, “He’s my dad, he’s my dad.”

Moving on to Preston Burke (played by Isaiah Washington) and Cristina Yang (played by Sandra Oh), for the entire episode they do not talk. Burke had the surgery on his shoulder to repair his hand tremors and spends the entire episode in the hospital as a patient. Cristina really wants to know how he is doing and if the tremors have stopped, but she is too proud to talk to him first. Burke is also too proud to talk first and explains to Addison that it is like the game “say Uncle” that children play: the first one to talk loses all of the power. So Cristina sends various hospital personnel in to ask him how his hand is, and Burke cleverly won’t answer. As his surgeon, Derek knows and Meredith probably does also, but both refuse to get in the middle of this other couple’s fight.

As for Derek Shepherd (played by Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith, their only “issue” this episode is Meredith’s snoring. She finds out that he can’t sleep in the bed with her because he is a light sleeper and she is a heavy snorer. She learns when they dated the first time, he used to sneak out of bed and sleep on the couch (or even outside in a hammock!), and then set an alarm to wake up and sneak back into bed with her before she woke up. This really bothers Meredith; however, maybe she learned something this time around because she comes right out and says, “As a girl with abandonment issues, you have to sleep with me.” And Derek says what he always says to Meredith, “OK.”

Another story line is the baby of Meredith’s half-sister, Molly. The baby needs medical procedures because of her premature birth and Meredith’s estranged father is there. Meredith gets flustered each time she sees him and tries to avoid him. There is an extremely awkward moment when Meredith is helping to wheel George’s dad to the OR and Mr. Grey appears and tries to make small talk with Meredith, who is obviously busy wheeling her patient into surgery. Mr. Grey isn’t quick on the uptake that she is trying not to be around him and has nothing to say to him in front of patients, especially. It is funny, though, when after they continue wheeling Mr. O’Malley to the OR, Mrs. O’Malley asks Meredith if he was an ex-boyfriend, and Meredith says, “No, he was my ex-father.” However hard she tries not to be curious about her father, Meredith is caught by Alex Karev as she watches her “ex-father” talk to his new granddaughter in her isolette in the NICU.

The thing most exciting to me in this episode is the embers of a hot romance brewing between Alex Karev (played by Justin Chambers) and Addison Montgomery (played by Kate Walsh). Karev continues to be Dr. Sloan (aka: Dr. McSteamy)’s intern, and Dr. Sloan (played by Eric Dane) continues to be a huge ass to Alex. When Addison Montgomery (she has apparently dropped the Shepherd-Montgomery, since her divorce was finalized) tries to call Sloan on his inappropriate treatment of the interns, he fires back at her that he is allowed to talk to him that way, “especially this week.” Addison seems to know what he is referring to and uncharacteristically backs off. The next morning Alex gives Sloan a coffee that is not to his standards and Sloan tells him he can’t work with him. Addison then tells Alex that she has an interesting surgery he can scrub in on.

That surgery is on Meredith’s half-niece. After the procedure, Alex was checking on the baby when Addison comes in. She compliments him and tells him that he would be better in OB than plastics. He confides that he messed up Sloan’s coffee on purpose because Sloan was rude to her. They linger and go in for the romantic kiss, but are interrupted by a nurse entering the NICU. Both Addison and Alex apologize to each other, for almost kissing, I guess, and awkwardly separate.

The last major story line was about a 17 year old girl with a severe spinal defect that has her bent over at a 90 angle at the waist. Izzie Stevens (played by Katherine Heigl) is the intern assigned to this bitter girl. The girl has had many unsuccessful surgeries that have left her in a great deal of pain. She has come to the hospital to have kidney stones removed to make her more comfortable. She is clearly fed up with doctors and hospitals that can do nothing to fix her. Izzie asks if she can scrub in on the kidney stone surgery and Dr. Bailey says “no” because Izzie’s psychologist hasn’t cleared her. Izzie says that she has done everything the psychologist has asked her to do except deposit the $8.7 million inheritance left to her by Denny because that has nothing to do with her surgical abilities. Dr. Bailey disagrees and says that not getting interest on that money is using bad judgment, and having bad judgment is why she is not allowed in on surgery yet. So Izzie lets the girl know she can’t scrub in on her kidney stone operation because “I went a little crazy after my fiancé died” and that Dr. Bailey hasn’t approved her for surgery. This makes the girl like and maybe even trust Izzie because she didn’t realize that bad things happened to “pretty people” too.

Callie’s take on this girl is from the orthopedic stand point. She wants to fix her. She gets Derek to look at her case and Derek decides he can do something to straighten her spine. The risk of death or paralysis from the surgery is high. The girl’s mother is apprehensive, but the girl lets her mother know that there are worse things than dying from the surgery. Izzie again asks to be apart of the surgery and Bailey again asks if she’s deposited the check. So Izzie decides to go to the bank with the check. At the bank she’s hysterically crying and obviously torn. She feels like she’s supposed to do something good with the money, but doesn’t know what that is and now she has to deposit it just to scrub in on this very rare and special surgery. So she does deposit the money and shows Dr. Bailey the paper. Just as they are talking about the money, the mother of the girl who is supposed to have the surgery is screaming and crying on her phone. Turns out her health insurance won’t cover the operation because it is too experimental and the mother won’t be able to come up with that amount of money.

Hmm, I wonder where she’ll get the money from? We’ll have to wait until next week.

To be continued…


Posted by on January 12, 2007 12:26 PM
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This show is getting so much better.. instead of all that Mcdreamy stuff

-- Posted by: tilly at January 13, 2007 2:15 PM

I so agree! I liked the show before, but thought it was a little too much like high school girl drama, but now I love the show.

-- Posted by: Nicole at January 13, 2007 4:33 PM

Karev and Addison huh? I like it. Great chemistry with those two.

Only problem I have witht the show lately is how heavy-handed they are with all the storylines having to have something to do with the "theme". Like it was silent treatment stuff so every one of the story lines was about someone not telling or being told something.

We get it. We get it.

-- Posted by: Pippa at January 15, 2007 7:46 PM

someone out there???????

-- Posted by: Noni at January 26, 2007 9:42 AM

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