Boy does the title of this epi hit home with me. \u00a0Too many deadlines and tasks at work. \u00a0Too much work for too long without an end - or a carefree vaca in sight. \u00a0Too many bills and too little money. \u00a0And now - the Gremlin's have struck. \u00a0Last night, Mr. Duck had to play HVAC repairman b\/c our AC died. \u00a0Thankfully, he fixed it. \u00a0(Mr. Duck's my hero!)<\/p>\n
Tonight a pothole - big enough to swallow a bunch of big ole pots - opened in our concrete driveway. \u00a0Both my trusty PT and Mr. Duck's minivan - ancient vehicles that have long deserved the retirement they won't get - have developed issues. Hey, maybe the pothole is the work of our vehicles - a suicide pact of sorts...... \u00a0Or maybe, the Graham vehicles think that if the hole gets big enough they can hide and enjoy a nice long vaca themselves.<\/p>\n
Yep, I'm crying Mercy. \u00a0So, I'm right there with Grey's greatest on this one!<\/p>\n
Cristina and Karev bonding. \u00a0That feels way strange. \u00a0Remember all the ways she insulted him during their internship?<\/p>\n
Webber doesn't want a feeding tube. \u00a0Bailey's still fighting his battles.<\/p>\n
Owen tells Arizona and Cristina that he needs them to be board members and doctors. \u00a0They're not buying it. \u00a0I understand. \u00a0People can only stretch so far.<\/p>\n
A woman impaled through the chest with a half a baseball bat makes Jo promise to tell her husband something if she dies -- that she cheated on him with his brother. \u00a0Why? \u00a0That must be the thing stretching her to her breaking point.<\/p>\n
April's waiting on the results of the board exams she had to repeat. \u00a0And yeah, that's tugging her towards her breaking point. \u00a0 And Calzona? \u00a0They're tugging each other towards the cliff.<\/p>\n
And Jackson is going to do free miracle surgery to repair a teacher's face - but Owen says no pro bono surgery until the ER is fully repaired. \u00a0What does Jackson do? \u00a0He throws a \"I own this hospital tantrum\" and gets his way - the teacher will get her surgery. \u00a0So Jackson did a bad thing for a good reason. \u00a0 Does that make it okay?<\/p>\n
And Mer\/Der are fighting over naps. \u00a0Der took an hour and a half nap in the parking lot of the grocery store when he went for milk. \u00a0Mer gets jealous and snaps to Cristina - her phone a friend - that she is entitled to a nap too. \u00a0Mer passes out, dead asleep, in mid conversation, curled up on the bathroom floor. Yep, I remember those newborn days well. \u00a0It feels like you'll never again get to sleep for a full night. \u00a0You think you're destined to be a living zombie. Why did you do this? \u00a0Why? \u00a0And then the baby coos or moves his little hand and you know exactly why you did it.<\/p>\n
But Owen has the teacher transferred so Jackson doesn't get to play superdoctor. \u00a0Owen's stressed about the hospital needing money -- I can relate. \u00a0Maybe the hospital's under Gremlin attack too.<\/p>\n
Webber won't take a feeding tube & Bailey won't force him. \u00a0When he asks for soup she Orders the intern to bring some and he does. \u00a0But the intern pokes his head around the corner and sees Webber choke with pain when he tries to swallow a single spoon of soup.<\/p>\n
Impaled baseball bat woman is bleeding out during surgery. \u00a0They call Callie who tells them not to cut the clavical but Callie arrives just as April puts down the saw. \u00a0A stretch too far? The patient or Callie?<\/p>\n
Jackson's still having an ego tantrum and it's not so cute anymore. \u00a0He's doing liposuction because Hunt needed him making money. \u00a0Poor little rich boy.<\/p>\n
Mer's so worried about Webber that when Der passes out, she takes the baby and heads to the hospital. \u00a0Yeah, Webber did good picking her as his \"person.\"<\/p>\n
Baseball bat woman dies. \u00a0Will Jo tell the husband her secret? \u00a0April says no but Callie says Jo made a promise and the husband deserves the truth.<\/p>\n
Mer and Bailey fight over the feeding tube. \u00a0They go off to see another doctor and the intern goes in and tells Webber that Mer hauled her baby out to come and force him to accept a feeding tube. \u00a0Intern asks Webber if he's going to make Mer do that or will Webber man up and accept it. \u00a0The intern is planning to put in the tube.<\/p>\n
April passes her board. \u00a0Jackson's with her. \u00a0But she wants to give him a hug and he holds out his hand for a shake instead. \u00a0But they both have secret smiles on their faces as they walk away from each other.<\/p>\n
And baseball bat woman - Jo goes to tell her hubby about her death. \u00a0He's devastated. Jo starts to tell him the truth and Callie stops her. \u00a0She says only that his wife said she loved him.<\/p>\n
And the intern does put the tube in and Richard accepts it.<\/p>\n
Owen pages all the docs to the ER - with the big hole in it - and tells them they're going to have a big fundraising party. \u00a0200th episode anyone?<\/p>\n
Karev takes Cristina's advice and plays caveman with Jo who hasn't been wanting sex. \u00a0Yep, \u00a0she wants it.<\/p>\n
And Cristina and Owen have an intense confrontation in the elevator. \u00a0Where else? \u00a0If those elevators could talk...<\/p>\n
And Callie goes to see Arizona. \u00a0Callie says Arizona cheated because she was unhappy. \u00a0 But Callie leaves. \u00a0She's stretched too far.<\/p>\n
Webber tells Mer that he picked her because she wasn't his family. \u00a0He thought he could trust her to be logical, not to bring him back to life when he was all but dead. \u00a0He tells Mer he was wrong to pick her. \u00a0He says he chose the wrong person.<\/p>\n
Mer was already stretched too far....... \u00a0but Webber just stretched her further.<\/p>\n
Life stretches us all, I guess. \u00a0How much can we take? \u00a0The \"too much\" may be the smallest thing, in the oddest place. \u00a0What will we do when we reach it? \u00a0Go mad? \u00a0Break permanently?<\/p>\n
Maybe we'll retreat into a romance novel where a happy ending is guaranteed - like one of the Quackingalone romances by yours truly --- come on, help me battle the Gremlins. \u00a0Pick up a QA romance today!<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boy does the title of this epi hit home with me. \u00a0Too many deadlines and tasks at work. \u00a0Too much work for too long without an end - or a carefree vaca in sight. \u00a0Too many bills and too little money. \u00a0And now - the Gremlin's have struck. \u00a0Last night, Mr. Duck had to play ...continue reading \"Liveblogging Grey’s Anatomy: “Everybody’s Crying Mercy”\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}