George and the girlsI apologize for the late posting of
Grey's this week. Between the finale of
Survivor and the finale
The Amazing Race I've been swamped. Oh, and that whole, having to work thing. Man, that can really get in your way. I'll refrain from my typical praise of this show because as you all know by now, I think this is one of the best shows on. My mom still hasn't watched it yet, although I keep begging her to do it. She swears she's going to watch it when it comes out on DVD. If you're reading this and you haven't watched it, I recommend getting the Season 1 DVD when it comes out on Valentine's Day...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JO9J/qid=1134678143/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9812492-1092768?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glanceOn to the show. Izzie is still losing her mind over Alex. So much so that she's kidnapped Christmas and thrown it all over the house. Meredith and George try to be supportive, Meredith I think feeling kinda guilty since Izzie caught her talking to Alex last week. I mean, how dare she.
We're treated to Christina and Burke. Christina comes out of the bedroom for breakfast and notices that Burke's put up a sad little mini Christmas tree. He says that he thinks they can decorate it. I was thinkin' about burning it, seriously, it's so sad. Christina tells him that she's Jewish. Her stepdad's name is Saul Rubenstein. Burke is a bit surprised, he seems to be really into Christmas (and Christina).
Later at the hospital as they're doing rounds, poor Dr. Bailey is feeling the strain of pregnancy and I'm thinkin' she's gonna burst at any moment. Looks like she's in pain. The group wonders if she's going to go on maternity leave. Meredith makes some cute comment about pushing babies out of vaginas and I chuckle. That Meredith. Alex tries to make a joke but Izzie ate some bitch cereal and comments on his killing a patient the week before. Good one Iz. Izzie then starts ranting about setting up a Secret Santa to which Christina begins to spurt some sassiness. George and Meredith stop her from possibly hurting Izzie's already bruises ego.
Dr. McDreamy and Meredith have a moment. He's bothering me a bit because he obviously doesn't even like Addison, but those damn wedding vows are keeping him with her. Am I watching Days of Our Lives here? You can tell his contempt for the Mrs. when she talks about sending Christmas presents to his parents. In light of the fact that he found her banging his best friend, not sure if Mom and Dad are her biggest fans. He just needs to dump her, it's starting to get annoying. Later, Addison tries to talk to McDreamy again but he ignores her. Why does she even want to be with him anyway? I mean, besides for his good looks and the fact that he's a rich doctor. He obviously has some issues with her. She says she wants to meet later to go shopping. He agrees to meet her for a drink at Joe's.
The first patient they visit is a man and his bratty kids. They're not really bratty, they're just loud. Apparently he was trying to hang lights for Christmahannukanza. Really, I don't know what it was, but some combination of all the holidays. The man fell off the roof and hit his head. Izzie's just excited that this family's all about the holidays since no one she knows in Seattle is. Izzie gets this guy. Their next patient and family are even more annoying then the kids we just saw. It's a woman who's trying to get her bleeding ulcer operated on. In the room with her are her parents, husband, and son. Her husband is complaining, her mother is crying and complaining, and her son is playing a video game. I'm immediately annoyed by all of these people and have no doubt where this woman gets her bleeding ulcer. They complain because they keep getting bumped for surgery because emergencies keep coming in. I mean how dare the hospital schedule emergencies before them. George takes the case.
Bailey assigns Meredith and Alex to the pit just as a heart comes in for Burke. Christine takes the heart transplant with Burke. Alex and Meredith talk and walk and he tells her that this could be his last day at the hospital since he takes his boards tomorrow and will probably fail. As Christina and Burke head to the heart transplant patient, he volunteers picking up some Jewish decorations. She stops him right there and lets him know that she's not religious. In fact she's anti-religion. They visit the little boy who's heart they're going to replace and the mother is overjoyed. Unfortunately the little boy isn't. The mother tells him that Santa has brought him a heart, but he's not buying it. He complains that everyone lies to him. He says that he wants someone else to have the heart. Don't really blame the kid, he's already had one heart transplant when he was a baby, and doesn't want another one. He is a bit cynical though for a ten year old.
George and Dr. Bailey (hey, I just realized if you put their names together it's George Bailey. Ha, sorry, I'm tired) are scrubbing in for the bleeding ulcer and another case comes in. They have to bumped the ulcer lady, much to George's annoyance since he's the one who's gonna have to tell her family. Bailey tells Meredith to scrub in but she tells her that Alex failed his boards and is retaking the test tomorrow. Apparently she wants to help him. Bailey excuses her and tells George to scrub back in after he talks to the family. Meredith heads down to the meeting place. I'm wondering if this is where the cool kids go. You know like in high school there was the "cool table" and you always wanted to sit there. I wonder if the interns from proctology ever get jealous of the surgery team. Anyway, Meredith pretends she's a patient so Alex can diagnose her symptoms. She tells him that his bedside manner needs a little work and maybe this is why he failed the boards. This is the first I'm hearing this, doctors are tested on their bedside manner? Maybe not the doctors at Kaiser Permanente.
Dr. Burke or Morpheus?
Dr. Burke and Christina work on the heart transplant kid and Burke starts to ponder how successful this surgery will be because the kid doesn't want it. He pulls a Morpheus from The Matrix, "the body can not live without the mind", stuff like that. If the boy doesn't want to live, he won't. Christina makes a joke about Burke's religion and gets him pissed. He kicks her out of the OR. She makes her way down to the cool hall, and discovers Meredith and Alex. She wonders how lonely Meredith can be, even offers up a great vibrator catalogue instead. You think I'm kidding, but that's just how great the dialogue is on this show. This is what happens when the people in the writers' room are mostly women. Meredith blurts out that Alex failed his boards and wants Christina to help him while she checks on her patients. Oh yeah, they still have patients. Christina reluctantly does it since she has nowhere to be.
Alex coppin' a feelAfter George returns the nice ulcer patient to her room with her obnoxious family, he goes over to the cool table, walking in on Alex giving Christina a breast exam. He, of course, is just as confused as she was. Christina tells him about Alex failing his boards and that he needs help. Christina's paged by Burke and runs off. He tells her that he doesn't appreciate her disrespecting him in the OR. She says she's not into all this religion and points out what little they have in common. All of this is true but there's something about the two of them together that I just love. Christina checks on the heart patient and his mother has put up a Christmas tree. She says that it's against the hospital rules but the overbearing mother tells her that they did it the year before and no one said anything. Ever think this is why he's sick, because you don't do what doctors tell you to do? Christina removes the tree herself. Later, the boy talks about how unfair this is, and that another child had to die for him to get the heart. He said he knew his mother prayed for another child to die for him to get the heart and that's not right. Somehow I think this might be Christina's long lost son because they seem to have the same attitude. Unfortunately the little boy flatlines but Christina is able to revive him. Looks like he's gonna need another heart. Morpheus, I mean Burke, thinks this is futile because of the boy's attitude.
Back with Alex and George, George makes a cute comment about not doing rectals. And what we knew was going to happen as soon as Meredith decided to help him happens, Izzie walks in. He tries to explain that Alex failed his boards, but she's furious and runs off. George runs after her and our group is reunited as Izzie screams down the hall when she realizes everyone has been helping Alex with his test. She doesn't understand why everyone is so nice to him when he cheated on her with the syph nurse. Ouch. Nice. Meredith equates Alex to her "Dirty Uncle Sal". Basically the creepy uncle no one wants to leave their kids with. I do find this to be a true statement, because even though Alex is kinda a creep, I still love him for some odd reason, kinda like I do some members of my family. Meredith breaks it down to Izzie. She tells her that even that she and George aren't really into Christmas, but they let her decorate the house because they want to make her feel better. She says that the people in the hospital are her family. She also tells Izzie that she's so into the Christmas spirit, she should try having some with Alex. You tell her Mer. I am a bit tired of Izzie's Christmas craziness.
Izzie's a bit sensitive anyway because it turns out, the dad that was hanging lights has a bleeder in his brain. He tries to play cool as they take him into the operating room. McDreamy operates and when the guy comes out of it later, he's a big ass to his wife and kids. The wife says she wants her old husband back. McDreamy goes in again to fix the problem with the frontal lobe. While in there Izzie plays some Christmas music for him, in case his brain is listening. And it is, because later we learn the guy's gonna be alright. Man, Christmas solves anything. Oh, I mean Christmahannukanza. Later, Izzie realizes she's being a bitch on Christmas and goes to see Alex who's still studying. She pretends she's a farmer who has bowel issues. Unfortunately she begins to cry. She insists she's still the farmer and crying is one of her symptoms. He doesn't believe her and tells her that he never meant to hurt her. She doesn't respond, just sits there and cries. Very touching moment. I felt her pain.
Dr. Bailey, her bump, and the ulcer's a**hole familyWell, ulcer lady has finally popped. I'm thinkin' her bitchy mother made her swallow a razor blade to get the doctors attention, but nope, she really is messed up. She's throwing up blood and George, Meredith and Bailey rush her into the operating room. The woman ends up being okay, but when George and Bailey go to talk to the family guess what, they're a bunch of asses. Bailey looks the other way as George tells 'em like it is. I would have done some bitch slappin', but George must be a better person than me.
Back with the little boy. Christina sits down with him and they have a chat. She tells him that she kinda agrees with him. She doesn't believe in God or Santa either. At this point I'm hopin' this goes okay because it's starting out a bit scary. She pulls herself back up by telling him that she believes in medicine, and him just living this long is a medical miracle. She tells him that dying isn't a way to hurt his mother and the doctors. She says a few other things, but honestly, it's been a week so I'm not clear. What I do know is it's extremely sweet and I'm hoping that Burke's heard it, although he's nowhere in sight. Later, when she gets back to his place there's a menorah in the window. She cuddles up to him in bed and he says something that makes me think he heard her talking to the boy.
McDreamy makes his way over to meet Addison and runs into Meredith. They have a sad unrequited love moment and he heads off. Later, when Meredith gets home, Izzie is lying under the tree. Meredith and George join her in a cute moment of unity between the housemates and substitute family.
Finally, McDreamy makes it to Joe's. He doesn't waste any time either. He tells Addy that his fling with Meredith wasn't a fling, that he fell in love with her. Ha! Merry Frakin' Christmas, bitch.
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