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I'm blogging with a 1-hour delay tonight. I have to watch the American Idol finale. It's been a great season. The best 2 wound up in the finale. I hope that Candice Glover - the Carolina Girl from right down the road - wins it all. Either way though, Candice or Kree will be great. (Course, it turns out that tonight, the Carolina Girl is the "best in the world." You go, Candice - Congrats!!!)

Now the voice over - McDreamy and Cristina running down the hall - scary.

Bailey almost got back to surgery - but couldn't do it. Now, that's not our Nazi.

And Arizona did the nasty -- with the wrong woman. I hope she feels MORE guilty than she looks. Shuffle out and hide.......

And y'all, I'm from the Grand Strand of South Carolina. Hurricanes are scary but -- not as terrifying as they're acting. Now, Mer giving birth - that's terrifying. I've done that too. Of course, I didn't do it in the dark. The dark wouldn't have scared me as much as a lack of air conditioning. Dark, I can stand. Being hot? Now that, I hate.

Those were some scary risks of a natural delivery of Mer's babe. Is being born face first that deadly? Who knew? Both of mine were induced. The first because my water broke and the second because Sam was ready and I was a type 1 diabetic. Like Mer's doc, when I asked to wait for the weekend when we'd have a sitter for the oldest, my Doc said that diabetic mothers have a very high incidence of babies dying in the womb late in the term. The doc said - in 3 days your healthy baby could be dead. So I said what Mer said -- well, let's do it.

An overturned bus and a fire. How brave must it be to run towards danger. A big shout out to the first responders.

The baby is delivered but he's not crying. Don't hurt the McNugget - Shonda Sunshine. Oh, there he is. McDreamy and the McNugget. But the baby's breathing is shallow. Mer tells Der to go with him and Der directs the interns to stay with Mer. Dear Duck, the OB is called away for another emergency. An intern is going to close. That can't be good.

And Cristina is trying to operate in the dark, knowing Mer's in surgery a room or two away.

There are no batteries and the McNugget may need a ventilator. And the Nazi is lost and useless.

Mer's bleeding - not from her uterus. Blood is coming from her IV and now she tells them about the FALL ON THE STAIRS. Mer's been bleeding internally and has to yell at the terrified intern.

Jo teaches the Moms how to ventilate the babies and McDreamy is crooning to his wee one, not knowing Mer is fighting for her life and talking an intern through emergency surgery. She tells the intern that if she can't breathe for 9 minutes not to revive her. Mer makes him promise - she is trying to tell him the babies' name when she passes out......... Not Mer. It's Mer/Der, people........

One of them is smart enough to go get Bailey for Meredith. She picks up a coatstand and beats the med machine until they fall out. That's our Nazi -- but now she's bleeding. She goes - hopefully to Mer.

Uh oh. Jackson sees a kid in the burning bus. It's about to explode. He won't leave her. Jackson's a good guy. Mostly. Except when he's not. And he's April's soul mate once they figure that out.

Shonda Sunshine's finales are always like a roller-coaster at the edge of a cliff, climbing up at 100 miles an hour when it breaks, sending the passengers plummeting off the cliff towards the sea below - in a monsoon - at night.

Cristina comes back and finds Meredith and outside the bus explodes. Did Jackson and the kid get out?
Cristina runs for Derek and it's that scene where we started - the two of them running down the hall.

Outside, April's screaming for Jackson, afraid he died. But there he is with the kid.

And April's ignoring her fiance and she is in tears.

Webber goes after the repairman he sent downstairs. And there's water and electricity sparking.

McDreamy says the McNugget is good. And Cristina lists all the traumas Mer survived.

Bailey -- tells them Mer had a massive splenic bleed. She makes Cristina and Der think Mer died because Bailey looks like death. But Mer's okay.

It's Webber. They're going to kill Webber. The electricity and the water. LIghts on upstairs. Lights off for Webber? God, I hope not.

Callie sees Arizona's ring pinned to the dastardly doc's scrub top. And she knows.

Karev tells Jo he's going to say the words - and then he does. And they finally kiss. It's time for good things for Karev.

April goes back to Jackson and he's hurt. She tells him she loves him and not the paramedic. He tells her - you're getting married. She says, unless you can give me a reason not to.

Cristina tells Owen she's made for the OR - she feels pure joy in the OR. And she tells Owen that when he looks at Ethan he looks like Der when he looks at Zola. And she asks - do you really believe I will be enough. Owen shakes his head - and Cristina leaves. He shouts after her but she leaves.

And that scene with Callie and Arizona. Arizona she still blames Callie for cutting off her leg and that's why she cheated. AND MER/DER NAME THE BABY BAILEY - because Bailey saved Mer's life. Bailey is hunting for Webber. She wants to apologize. She won't find him to talk to though........ He's gone. I know he's gone.

The season ends with Webber lying still on the wet floor of the basement, with electric sparks flying around him.

And it goes black....... no answers until next year........

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Y'all - the McNugget is at risk tonight.  Where's that crate of tissue?  I could use it to blot my tears or --- I could think of an entirely different way to use it on Shonda Sunshine.  Just sayin'.  The giant griddle in the sky best not come for the McNugget ---

Right after the voiceover, Hurricane Karev isn't waiting for the storm, but Owen has the docs getting ready.  Karev calls McDreamy away - If the jerkwad hit Jo, I hope Karev and McDreamy pack the kind of punch that leaves a lasting impression.  Uhh Ohhh.........  it's too late for McDreamy to intervene - Karev already dealt enough blows of his own.  (You go, Alex!)

Arizona's still flirting?  No, girl - you don't go...

Owen and Ethan and yes, Owen should be a Dad because he's got the stuff, the magical Dad stuff.  But Cristina told Ethan's Grandmom the truth about Ethan's Dad's condition.  How dare she!  The truth?  What was she thinking?

And yeah.........  Owen asks Mer the "A" word question.  We've all known that was coming.

Power tools in the OR.  It's about time.

So Jo beat the Doc who hit her?  Lovin' that.  I hope she doesn't suffer for it.  Take it from a lawyer - the law isn't always just.  Will Alex take the fall?  Yes, he will.  Mer knows that - telling him not to do anything stupid was futile.  She chases after Jo, telling her not to let Alex take the fall.  She chases after Jo on the stairs.  Then the cleaning guy comes by with the power tool from the surgery she was kicked out of and Mer is pissed -- she stomps up the stairs, not watching where she's going and........

Damn it.  She falls.  I fell once when I was carrying my youngest.  I was getting out of the tub.  Thankfully, I landed on my hands and knees mostly but I was still terrified.  I see Mer's face -- yeah, I felt like that.  Just like that.

Shonda - leave the McNugget be!  Mer can be happy.  We don't need the dark and twisty back.  No losing the baby and a downward spiral in the marriage.  No threat of infidelity from Mer or Der - No, I tell you.  No.  A healthy McNugget means a healthy Mer/Der.  You listening, Sunshine???

Dear duck - Der's in emergency surgery on Ethan's Dad when Mer falls on the stairs.  He leaves it in the hands of the intern.  He had to go, of course - HAD TO - but it can't bode well for Ethan's PaPa.  Course, we all knew Ethan's Dad was a goner.  He has to die so that Owen and Cristina have to deal with that "A" word.

So far so good for the wee McNugget.

A musical proposal for Kepner?  Rose and all?  I still like her with Jackson better, but.......  what will she say?  She said yes - they throw roses.  But what will Jackson say?  His eyes meet April's........  Jackson is clapping - trying to be happy for April.  Yeah, Sunshine, we all see the circle.  She's trying to make April and Jackson the new Mer/Der.  But you know, the paramedic the paramedic is no Chris O'Donnell -- err, Veternarian Dr. Finn Dandridge......

Yep, we're heading for a trauma room scene with Jackson and April.......  It probably won't occur at a prom at the hospital though.  How many of those can they have?

But, yes, the proposal is why Owen kicked April out of her surgery.........

Dear Duck 2 - the visiting hot doc wants Arizona to show her the on call room?>  Really?

And Alex is trying to talk the beaten Doc out of calling the cops.  Alex is being smart.  Threatening the Doc with who Alex's friends are..........  No, Alex's friends don't like a guy who'll hit a girl.  It's the new Denny and the LVAD... But McDreamy overhears.  By the Book McDreamy - the cop's kid.......

And Webber calls Bailey on the carpet for avoiding the OR....  Good.  We need the Nazi back.

And then Mer goes to answer Owen's "A" question about Zola.  And Owen tells Mer all his feelings for Ethan - all the ones he should be telling Cristina.  But Owen thinks Cristina won't get it.  And Ethan's Dad wakes up --- so Owen is sad.  Very, very sad.  Cristina doesn't get it.........

I'm still wondering if Ethan's Dad will actually make it.

And, yeah, I'm still worried about the McNugget.....

The storm is rolling in...... And the paramedic has to speak with Jackson. He tells Jackson that Owen was in on it.  Will Jackson tell April?  Do bees bee?  Do birds bird?

And, yeah, Mer tells Cristina about the "A" conversation with Owen......  And the power is flickering as Arizona shows hot doc the on call room.  It had to be, right?  No, girl.  Don't do it.  Another flicker.  And a kiss......  Arizona gives the right answer.....  but the hot doc talks her into being bad......  And sometimes I like bad......  But I like Callie more.

Alex yells at Jo and she doesn't understand it means that he cares......  And they almost have their moment until... A tree falls right in the den........

Callie is looking for Arizona..........  and Mer's water breaks........  It's too early........

But sometimes, McNuggets arrive early, right?? But the preview doesn't look good.  A C Section in the dark?  An explosion -- and Mer's voice asking why the baby isn't breathing........and McDreamy trying to look calm with a horrified expression on his face?

Don't do it Shonda........  leave the McNugget alone!

 

 

 

 

 

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See, there's this author who is about 7 months younger than a certain insane duck lady.  You may have heard of her - her name is Erika Leonard.  Okay, most likely you know her by her pen name -- E.L. James.  She wrote a little ole book trilogy that a couple of (Million?  Hundreds of Million?) people have read.  The trilogy?  Yes, that one - "Fifty Shades of Grey."

To me, it sounds like all the hulla-boogby- balloo caused by the bombshell effect of these books has had the same effect on the life of the author - catapulting Ms. James past fame and right into infamy.   It must be a hell of a thing to deal with, particularly for someone who wasn't out chasing fame.  One day, a little later in life than some others, Erika Leonard sat down at a computer and started writing a book.  I get that - I totally get that.  I, too, did all sorts of other writing before I (finally) sat down at a keyboard and wrote my first book.  "Brotherly Love" didn't catapult me into fame, fortune or infamy.  It was the first book I wrote and it quietly convinced me that I wanted to write others - and so I did.

I'm not sure what would have happened if "Brotherly Love" had hit the publishing world with even one-thousandth of the impact of "Fifty Shades."  I hope I would still have written more.  I hope that I would still be writing.  I hope - but I don't know.  Think about it.  Imagine it for a moment.  You write a trilogy that becomes the "E.T." of the romance genre. It's not a book that's shoved down readers' throats by a massive publicity campaign.  It's a book that becomes a phenomenon because readers discover it on their own and they turn it into a phenomenon.  Some readers love it and others hate it but very, very few who've read it are unaffected.  The initial discovery and your growing sales numbers at first delight you -- but then -- the numbers keep growing and growing.  Those sales ramp up the discovery factor and soon the media takes notice.  And you wake up one day to find you can't remain happily in seclusion behind your keyboard any longer.  You can't because you're "it" and your it-ness changes the way everyone looks at you and thinks of you.

And you know -- you bloody well know - that the next time you sit down at a keyboard you're expected to produce more than just your next book.  You're  expected to produce a next book that will do better than that trilogy.  I'd love my trilogy - I love all my work - but I think I'd grow to resent it a little too.  In a way, the trilogy would become a great golden albatross or perhaps a snipe that I never meant to chase.

Suddenly, then, the world expects that trilogy author to morph into a cross between the late Princess Diana and the late Margaret Thatcher.  And all I'd want to be would be the same insane duck lady that I've always been.  What else could I be but me?  I don't want to be anyone else - and I'll bet Erika Leonard doesn't either.  I wonder if she ever resents her E.L. James persona?  Erika can be whoever and whatever she chooses - but she must now do it within that bubble of fame, bearing the vast weight of those expectations.  No matter what she does or how she does it, she'll always give some people reason to find fault.  IMHO, the world is far too full of folks who aren't happy unless they're finding fault with someone.

...continue reading "E.L. James – Fifty Shades of Controversy"

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Tonight's blog comes from my hotel room in not-so-sunny Orlando, Florida.  As my other post of today advised, my eldest graduated today from UCF.  The reunited Clan Graham will be heading home tomorrow.  It's been a rainy graduation week, but there's a good reason for that. Florida is crying because it's losing Zack.

Anyway, my attention tonight is divided with packing, etc.  Also, tonight I lack my always-spiffy Time Warner DVR with the ability to pause and rewind.  I may miss things -- and I'm hoping you'll understand.

As we await the show, I'm thinking back to the classic Lovin' Spoonful song lyrics. They ask if you believe in magic in a young girl's heart, how the music frees her, whenever it starts.  I admit to being biased, but I feel that way about romance novels.  I think a good love story can free anyone, including girls young and old.  A story of love and lust, passion and pain always leading to a happily ever after can make us feel free and easy, no matter what fills our days.

Tonight's epi centers around a magic trick gone wrong, the need for magic to mend relationships with Bailey, too much of the wrong kind of magic to celebrate a 21st birthday and a wee dose of the kind of troublesome magic that makes relationships go so right - or so wrong.

A magician really sawed his wife in half (or nearly), and Meredith and Webber can't stabilize her.  They could use Bailey's help but Bailey isn't talking to anyone.  The whole group lines up to corner her at a restroom but Bailey still slams the door.  The magician's wife turned out to be about to leave him for the other magician's assistant.  Karev is avoiding Jo and Cristina is helping and April's recalled that being bad with Jackson felt really good.

Owen and Cristina aren't progressing but they're not falling backwards either.  However, Owen's bonding more with Ethan, his future adoptive son - or so we decided several epi's ago.  And then Owen sends Ethan home with his grandmother, but the boy is rushed back to the hospital after he overdoses on Grandma's sleeping pills.  Trouble for Otina looms, unless Cristina has grown enough to accept a child.  If not, that could spell an end to Otina's non-marital bliss.

Arizona had to call social services for Ethan, and that doesn't make anyone happy.  But, Ethan's ingesting the pills reminds Cristina of a possible way to wake Ethan's father from his coma.  And the magician tells the assistant that he knows she is what his wife needs to mend her heart and her soul.  Oh, and Jo wants to get things back where they were with Karev.  Hasn't she figured that out yet?  Jo seems far too smart to be so stupid.

The 21-year-old's friends are worried about what they will do for spring break if their friend can't drink.  April tells them to aspire to greatness - become doctors or senators.  Jackson overhears her and April invites him to Joe's but Jackson says no.  He has plans.

And Cristina's magical cure isn't magic for Ethan's Dad and the social workers are on the way to take Ethan.  Meredith tries another appeal to Bailey and it doesn't work.   It turns out Bailey's been testing her blood - obsessively - for the strain of staph that killed patients last week.  So far, every test has turned out negative.

Owen tells Ethan not to take pills without a parent's permission and he says he doesn't think he has parents anymore.  Cristina tries - telling Ethan that they haven't given up on his Dad, but that just makes Ethan cry.  Then Grandma tells Owen that Ethan needs a parent because her son is gone.  She tells Owen that Ethan needs someone to look after him and she can't.  Yep - it's going there.

Jackson meets the intern and admits he hasn't called her for 11 days because he's the head of the hospital now.  But if he was going to try to keep things quiet he screws up by laying a hot one on her right at Joe's.

And Callie tells the visiting surgeon that she's married.  The doc still has the hots for her though.

Webber comes to Bailey's aide by calling her husband.  For him, Bailey opens the door.

And Cristina acknowledges the elephant, asking Owen if he wants a child.  Owen says he wants her -- but all of us, including Cristina, knows that is only part of the truth.

Karev goes home to find Jo sitting and waiting for him - but she's been beaten.  Yes, Dr. Not So Wonderful is a woman beater.

OH - DEAREST DUCK - the previews.  Meredith won't slow down and she falls, walking up stairs.

Leave the McNugget alone - Sunshine.  Just sayin'.........

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My oldest, Zack, graduated cum laude from The University of Central Florida this morning, May 2, 2013. The kid is a smart grabber - he must have got all those genes from Mr. Duck. Zack also graduated "with honors" - meaning from the Burnett Honors College - and "with honors in the major." The latter means he's truly nuts and also completed a mini-thesis guided by engineering guru Dr. Ali P. Gordon of the Dpt of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.

We got a chance to meet Dr. Gordon at the Honor's convocation last night, 5/1.  He was clearly brilliant - a gifted professional - and yet he spoke so highly of Zack's work.  Zack would be the first to say how much he was guided and influenced by Dr. Gordon.  Zack said one of his big motivations was not wanting to disappoint Dr. Gordon.  That speaks volumes about how gifted the good Dr. Gordon is as an education professional.  His guidance on Zack's thesis attests to Dr. Gordon's gifts as an engineer.

At the graduation his morning 7,800 graduated from the Arts and Humanities Colleges and the College of Engineering and Computer Science.  They got the ceremony completed in 2 hours - an amazing feat - and they did it without "shortchanging" anything.  This afternoon, 5/2/13, is another graduation of different colleges.  (Bill Clinton will speak at this one).  Our speaker this morning was Dr. Peter Delfeyett of UCF's College of Optics and Photonics.  Dr. Delfeyett spoke in stories.  I understood the motivational parts of the tales and found them very inspiring.  I was very impressed by Dr. Delfeyett's current work with DARPA (the group that invented the internet).  Dr. Delfeyett is working on a project using lasers and their color spectrum to make the internet faster.  Cutting edge stuff, right?

Zack's entire experience at UCF has been first class and cutting edge.  He was a National Merit Scholar and UCF offers a full ride - full, no holds barred scholarship - to National Merit Scholars who put UCF down as their first choice on the selection form.  You know how most things that look too good to be true turn out to be a lot less than advertised?  Right after Zack accepted UCF's offer, I scanned a copy of his scholarship to my desktops at home and at work because - I expected trouble.  You know what?  I NEVER GOT IT.  UCF said what it meant and it meant what it said and that's a life lesson that all of our kids (and their parents) could use.

The ceremony was wonderful - bagpipes and all.  I cried.  Of course, I did.  But they were happy tears for my son's grand achievement.  I'm very, very, proud of him.  They were also tears of gratitude to the University of Central Florida.  My son's dream has always been to become an engineer.  Today, he graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and in the fall he will take the FE exam in South Carolina.  UCF isn't at Disney and I didn't see Cinderella's coach anywhere, but the school surely must have absorbed a touch of all that magic.  Certainly, in many ways, UCF has been a "fairy godparent" to my son.  Wave a scholarship and poof - some hard work, a first rate faculty, staff and facilities and 4 years later --  my son's dream is coming true.

If you're looking for a University that can give you the keys to your dreams, I invite you to take a look at UCF.  AND IF YOU'RE A NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR OR THE PARENT OF ONE -- you're losing the opportunity of a lifetime if you don't visit UCF and give it serious consideration as that "first choice" selection.  Yes, this is an emotional tribute to my eldest son who is one of my heroes, but it is also a real-life tribute to UCF from the mother of a National Merit Scholar.

UCF fosters and encourages an environment where children, fresh from high school, enter to explore, give, grow and learn - guided by a vast array of professionals who are the best in their fields.  Those high school children leave  as young men and women who have learned lessons that pave the path to their dreams.  My son is on his way to realizing his dreams. I hope that many of your sons and daughters find their "fairy godparent" at the University of Central Florida.

Thank you Dr. Gordon and Thank you UCF!!  We need many more places like UCF - where magic meets hard work and where a promise made is a promise kept.

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As I await the Mer's voice over - thought I'd post a link to this story about a 'miracle baby' who inspired a story in tonight's Grey's Anatomy.   The McDonagh family of McHenry, Ill and their miracle baby, Ian, are fine now - but they went through a lot on the road to fine.  I hope this story isn't about Mer and the McNugget.  I don't wish ill on any little one and I'm sorry little Ian and his family went through this - but I already love the McNugget.  Just sayin'.

(BTW - I linked the 'miracle baby' story earlier on QA's Facebook page.  If you don't follow us there, you're missing out on some juicy linkage.  So pause, click this link, and follow - all good?  You did it right?  Okay - now on to the voice over...)

Okay - Bailey's got the voice over tonight.  That makes sense - given her job jeopardy.  And infections are like monsters.  I'm a Type I diabetic and staph is an infection I've gotten to know too well.    But how dare the CDC grill Bailey?  She's the nicest Nazi I know.

Great duck - April is going to play the distressed virgin card.  Come on - I was starting to like her for a while.  Guess we're not supposed to like April.  The writers' want us to see her as a nut.  Guess what?  To someone reared in the Bible Belt, April's not such a nut.  I'm going to try to forgive her for the outburst where she blames Jackson for "taking" her virginity.  I'll assume we will have an adult moment later where she at least apologizes and says that even if she regrets it now, her virginity was a gift she gave Jackson.  Geez - women can take responsibility better than this.

Meredith wants Cristina to be there when she gives birth?  Cristina?  Hello - Mer, don't you know your person better than that?  Still, it's possible Cristina changes her mind before epi's end.

The little boy - Ethan, I think - Owen's still attached even though Grandma has showed up now.

Oh, and thank goodness.  The 'miracle' baby story doesn't involve the McNugget.  Don't grill the McNugget, Shonda Sunshine.  Some things are sacred.

The family reunion story is a nice light note.  Love 'em.  Love 'em a lot.  Just not a lot of 'em at once, right?

Bailey channels Aretha's "Respect" to time her scrubbing before surgery?  That fits.  All women everywhere should channel a little Aretha. The Nazi channels a lot of Aretha - which is why no one should mess with Bailey.

Cristina tells Karev to beat up Jo's boyfriend?  Uhh Ohh, watch out what you wish for Cristina.  You might get it.....

So, one of the reunion kids is going to break the CDC investigation story?  Interesting.

Der's hovering over Mer and worrying about her treating Bailey's staph patients is way cute - from this side at least. Der's not so cute when Mer tells him she wants Cristina in the OR.  Love Owen's comment -- "Watching a baby being born is like seeing God in person."

The investigator grills Bailey on whether she closed a particular surgery.  But Bailey has the luxury of getting up and walking out before the interview is done.  Witnesses in a courtroom can't do that - and that point - the point when Bailey walked out - that's the point where the truth begins to emerge.  It's the breaking point.  I'm a lawyer, though I don't do trial work.  My boss is a trial lawyer and I do all the appeals.  Do you have any idea how much deposition and trial testimony I've read?  Yep, my boss is an excellent trial lawyer and he knows all about the breaking point.

Now Mer sits down with Bailey.  But Jackson calls her on it -- and Ethan's Mom seizes.  Bailey's not allowed to treat - and it keeps Ethan available for that possible adoption Owen's going to want, right?  I blogged about that several epis ago.

And Cristina's operating on 'miracle baby.'

And Ethan's Mom doesn't survive the elevator ride up to the OR.

Does anyone have a tissue?

Oh, duckness.  Owen has to tell Ethan about his mom's death.  Owen does a great job and Ethan goes out to comfort his grandmother.  What an amazing kid!  More tissue?  Yes, I think so.

Bailey hears her MENTOR, Webber, tell one of her struggling patients that the problem at the hospital was one doctor and she's been isolated from patients.  Jo asks Webber about it later and he says he doesn't believe that.  He just said it to get the patient's parents to let them operate so the guy wouldn't die.  Either way - it's truth to Bailey and truth from the source she'd take the most seriously.  Bailey goes back to the investigator - demanding to know the results of her staph test.  They tested Bailey - they tested everyone.

The investigator doesn't answer, but Bailey sees the truth in his eyes - she does have the strain of staph infecting her patients.  She's left asking -  did I do this?  Did I do this?  The Nazi, humbled.

Someone call Kleenex for me and order a crate.  Between this and the rumors of a "superstorm" striking during the finale and Shonda Sunshine promising more trauma -- Forget the crate.  How much tissue does an 18-wheeler hold?

Yes, Cristina changes her mind.  However, Derek might kill her if she tries to turn the McNugget birth all dark and twisty. The Cristina expresses sympathy to Owen for Ethan's mom's loss.

Bailey invades the board meeting.  She hears the investigator say that she carried the staph.  BUT - the gloves were defective - microscopic tears, etc.  The CDC doesn't think Bailey would have given the patients staph without the defective gloves.  CDC recommends Bailey be fully treated before going back to patient care.  But Bailey's still upset and I understand completely.

Jackson has to go to April.  He tells her he's not sorry they slept together and then, on cue, jerky paramedic walks in.  He says he wants the do-over April offered earlier.  She gives it to him.  But I'm still waiting for April to woman up and own her choices.

Okay,  Webber on the bench with Bailey.  She's still upset that she killed 2 patients and then she learns that another died.  She's in tears.....  upset that Webber shut her out when he should have tried to protect her.  Bailey says she always defended Webber when Adele complained about Webber putting the hospital first.  Instead of standing up for her, he stood up for the hospital again.

Alex goes to Cristina's room when he gets home.  Jo called him on telling her secrets to her boyfriend.  And Alex finally confesses that he loves her.  And Cristina pats the bed - calling Alex in - not romantically, but in her old Mer posture of support.  She tells Alex that she thinks she is losing Owen.  Not today, but soon.

Gosh, and the previews for next week - it looks like a lot of folks will begin to lose........

How fast can that 18 wheeler of tissue get here?

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Editorial Note - Ignore all the rumors. Mr. Duck did NOT suggest the title for this episode.

From the title of the episode -- we knew Mer's news would not be good.  Oh, Mer, having a gene doesn't mean you get the disease.  We all walk around with bunches of genes for things we never get.  Forget about it and live now!  Will she do that?  No - she's Meredith Grey.  She's dark and twisty.

She wants an updated will.  Now.

Woah - I just found a commercial deep.  (Inspiration dances with the daring.)  What does that say about the state of my mental health, people?  Seriously,  nothing good.

The Syrian docs have to treat patients in the dark and without instruments?  That's almost as sad as their insisting on Callie being on the team because they lose so many children.

Speaking of children, Owen's surrogate son is back.  And I just read that he and Cristina will be re-visiting the whole baby issue.  I'm guessing that Shonda Sunshine is misleading us again.  Yep - I'm thinking they'll adopt an older kid.

Back to the will - yes.  Cristina was one of the guardians and Derek says she needs out because she doesn't want kids.  Meredith says Cristina will still agree to raise their kids.  Hmm, so that's how the issue will arise.  Crafty Sunshine having Cristina's person bring up the issue of issue.

And surrogate kid's grandmother won't arrive until tomorrow to pick him up.  Yep, it'll be a perfect Shonda Storm.  Mer asking Cristina to be the baby's guardian and Owen bringing home surrogate son.  Part 1 - Cristina says she'll take the kids but she'll raise them by a team of surrogates.  And Mer looks depressed.  Is it Der's sisters for the kids.  And Cristina wants to get the kids 3 weeks a year - she'll take them for their first tattoo........  Mer says they need a Mom and Cristina points out that Mer's still here - she's not dying.

But Cristina should know better.  She knows dark and twisty Mer better than anyone.

Dear Duck - now Mer and Cristina are giving April love advice.  She should know better than to take love advice from those two.  Even the Syrian doc wants to give April advice.  She just looks like she needs help.

Mer and Der discuss how many disasters they've survived.  And Mer tells Der he should give her a lethal dose of morphine as soon as she forgets where her keys are.  By that token, I wouldn't have survived until Zack learned to walk.  And now he graduates in May from UCF with a Mechanical Engineering degree - cum laude, and with honors in the major. Yeah, Mer should rethink that whole exit strategy. If I hadn't been around longer than losing those keys - Sam, my youngest, wouldn't exist and the world without Sam-ness would be a dark and hideous place.  Sam's the male version of Mary Tyler Moore (Remember that song?  Sam turns the world on with his smile.  It lights up a room.  And he really does take nothing days and make them seem worthwhile.) And my engineer, Zack,  would have had no one to hell hack his teachers and school officials until thy gave in and admitted that one size does not fit all.  Where would he be today, my special, brilliant young man?)

And all of babies are getting post-op complications.  Is intern Leah to blame?

Has Meredith learned anything?  NO - she gets a back up promise that Cristina will kill her when she forgets where her keys are.  And you know what?  Cristina really would do that.

April's gonna tell the paramedic -- Yes, she just did.  She tells him she was a virgin for a long time but screwed up and didn't wait. Will he understand?  No, he won't.  She sees her lack of virginity as a wee little issue compared to the war that the Syrian's are facing.  He doesn't see it that way.  He says the issue is her lying.  It could be, but I suspect that it might be just that - the paramedic doesn't want a playground where anyone else played -ever.  That's the kind of thing a hero might say and believe in a historical romance novel -- from the Regency period -- but only until the heroine taught him better.

Der wants the intern with the natural talent and he rejects the one willing to work his butt off.  Sigh.  Hard work is way underrated.  And Owen fights to admit Ethan overnight because he doesn't want to go with foster services.  Callie says no.   But - she changes her mind.  Except the kid hears Owen say he's sick and Owen has to explain to the kid that he's fake sick.  And Cristina sees Owen cuddled up and relating to his surrogate son and she sees why Owen's been so irritable lately.

Mer tells Der that Cristina agreed to kill her and he shows her his gene scan.  Positive for a high tendency to 2 kinds of cancer, heroin addiction and male pattern baldness.   He tells her it's all a crap shoot.  A less twisty lady might agree.

And April is robbing the hospital - giving away expensive medical equipment.  Girl frog - none of that will change the mind of an arse. And yes, Mer, the truth doesn't always set us free.

One of the complications patients died.  But Leah didn't treat her.  Only Bailey treated all three of them.  And Jackson has to call the lawyers.  And Owen and Derek have to tell Bailey to sit down and let Webber treat her patients.  They were going to fire the intern -- so are we supposed to believe that Bailey is leaving the show?  Bailey?

You know - I did see a blip from Shonda that someone was leaving the show.  But I think that's just misdirection.  Grey's without Bailey?  It wouldn't be the same.

And your homework this week is to imagine Cristina's child-rearing philosophy.  Nightmares may be involved.

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