Another excellent episode. We found out some huuuge stuff: Izzie has a freakin’ daughter. Yes, a DAUGHTER! Just when I think this show can’t surprise me anymore, they go and make Izzie have an eleven year-old daughter. And I loved the strike going on outside the hospital. Unbefreakinlievable!

          Izzie has been made the beating heart of this show. How many more secrets does she have hidden? This show has a way of making a farfetched story seem excellent because of the way the storyline is presented. Cheyenne Wood, the sixteen year-old pregnant student, is going to have a child. By having a child of course, she has to quit school and provide for her child. So using this guest star’s character, the writers reveal a part of Izzie’s life that seems implausible in a way in which the audience responds positively. We know what this poor girl is going through. We’re not all doctors. We don’t all make infinite amounts of money. Izzie understand this. Cheyenne and she are alike. They have both come from Chehalis. Both have lived in trailer parks. Both have mothers who have twelve hour shifts at the corner fast-food restaurant. And both have the potential to be great. The writers use Cheyenne’s and Izzie’s story to deliver a groundbreaking possible future plot point. Introducing Izzie’s daughter can lead to a future story that we can all look forward to. I’m looking too much into this.

          There was also another conflict between the privileged and the unprivileged taking place between the doctors and the nurses. This was obviously much lighter, but we can view it the same way as Izzie’s story. The doctors are the fortunate ones making money that anyone would wish to have. Nurses are part of a union and work as long as doctors do. Not once do the doctors say please and thank you. Nurses work their asses off to do the jobs doctors “don’t have time to do.” I’m being hard, but this is all the truth.

          Not once have we seen Meredith break down concerning her mother’s affairs. Now, she’s breaking down. Having treated Grace Bickham, the DNR old lady, she learns that it’s a terrible thing to die alone. Earlier in the day, she learns that Dr. Webber is visiting her mother. He tells her that Ellis is lonely. Her daughter is working all the time and she has no one to talk to. This is hard for Meredith. She’s held everything together. She has somehow juggled her mom’s condition with her affair with McDreamy with her life as an intern. At one point, it’s time to lose it. I haven’t been moved by a tv show in a while. Meredith’s breakdown was painful and beautiful to watch at the same time. Ellen Pompeo is an excellent actress. Hopefully, she’ll continue to move us.

          A new replacement is found for Dr. Bailey: the spastic Dr. Sydney Heron. Honestly, I don’t like “healing with love.” I like healing with pain. That’s how I felt like healing myself when I saw her; I wanted to punch her out. How can she actually find Alex more compassionate than Cristina? Not that Cristina is passionate, but still. I mean seriously. If that’s not worse, I had to watch her make a fool of Cristina and Burke. This better be the last episode she’s in. I find I’m very mean lately. I knew she was going to be a disaster when she wanted to hug Cristina. I literally fell off my coach laughing. Cristina is not a huggable person.

Dear Diary

Izzie: I have a daughter. I’ve never told anyone and I won’t tell anyone. I can’t tell my friends. It isn’t time yet. It’s not the right place or time. I saw Cheyenne lying in her bed reading her child Shakespeare. I had to tell her about Sarah. Giving the child away to someone who can raise her right is what the best mother can do. We can all love our children in different ways. Giving Sarah away was the best thing I could have done. I spared her from a trailer park/ slutty model life. It was the best thing I could have done with the situation I was in; it’s the best thing Cheyenne can do as well. Her mother came to speak to me after she learnt of Cheyenne’s decision. She was so angry. She thought I was looking down on them, trying to help her out because of her financial problems. I wasn’t and I think she believed me. I know what Mrs. Wood feels like. My mother was the same.

Meredith: I’ve never cried about my mom’s problems. I never have. But when I saw Grace Bickham just die because I pulled the plus on her, it made me sick to my stomach. That shouldn’t have been something I should have done. She died all alone. She never gave her good-byes to her daughter. For the last few years of her life, she lived without her husband Lenny. That day, she was asking for him, pleading for him to come to her. How do you just die like that? You die alone. I don’t know how I could handle that. And my mom is going through the same thing. She’s lonely. I can’t be there. I’m not the person to be there. That’s not me. It’s a shame I’m the one who has to take care of her. I can’t even do that.

Today’s Baileyisms

-          Bailey is MIA from the hospital.

Quotable Quotes

-          George: “My dad’s a truck driver, my mom’s a teacher. If the evening news shows me crossing a picket line, they’ll outlive me just to pee on my grave.”

-          Olivia: “Change your own bedpans, Stevens!”

Izzie: “Yeah, well enjoy your syphilis, Olivia.” I laughed for a while.

-          Sydney: “Here you are! You guys look like a great group! Which is awesome, because my horoscope said it was going to be a very challenging day! But no! This is great, we’re going to have so much fun!” I can’t stand her.

-          Cristina: “Ow. Ow. Ow.”

Sydney: “Am I hurting you?”

Cristina: “No you’re touching me.”

-          Sydney: “So it looks like it’s just you and me, Izzie McGee!”

Izzie: “It’s Stevens, Izzie Stevens.”

Sydney: “Oh no I knew. I was just rhyming.”

-          Burke: “Never have I questioned a fellow surgeon in their OR. I never understood what the problem was, an intern dating an attending...until today.”

-          Cristina: “Excuse me, why aren’t you apologizing?”

Burke: “I’m an Attending, I don’t have to apologize to residents. You, on the other hand, are an intern.” Nicely said.

-          George: “What happened today?”

Izzie: “Nothing.”

Meredith: “Nothing.”

George: “Okay.”

Izzie: “We don’t know everything about each other, George.”

Meredith: “Yeah.”

George: “True … anybody want to have sex?”

Some Final Notes

-          George couldn’t cross the picket line. His parents are all union workers. He did pop in the hopsital in and out to check on the nurses’ patients though.

-          Alex was doing some major sucking up to Dr. Heron. I didn’t know he was such a brown-noser.

-          The nurses were throwing donuts and fruits at the doctors.

-          I loved Izzie telling Olivia to enjoy her syphilis. Good. I hate Olivia.

-          Meredith saw Ellis and Webber hold hands. Someone’s busted.

-          The interns tried guessing who the new Bailey was going to be. They were wrong every time. They didn’t expect who they got however.

-          Mrs. Solomon, the one with the spreading rash, was making out with her husband Wade on the hospital bed. Give them a break. It’s their honeymoon.

-          Grace Bickhams’s story was beautiful. Meredith saved her when she was really a DNR. That’s hard to digest.

-          Addison did Cheyenne’s surgery for free. That surgery looked really cool.

-          Grace’s three friends were hysterical.

-          There was almost a bar fight between Cristina and some soccer mom nurse who spilled ice on her. I wanted Cristina to take her down.

-          Izzie last has a picture of her daughter when she was six. Her name is Hannah and her fanily used to live in Santa Barbara.

-          Burke says he realized why dating an intern is bad. He never knew why before. He acted like Cristina’s boyfriend rather than her boss.

-          Derek was right there ready to help Meredith when she broke down. Why does he keep popping up?

-          Dr. Heron wanted to hug Cristina after she apologized. Like that’s going to happen.

-          So Webber is not going to buy the hospital robot. He’s going to hire more nurses instead.

Excellent episode. 5 stars

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