An epic journey is afoot for every doctor in Grey-Sloan Memorial this week on Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 10. Read our recap to find out where they are heading!
Swearing on a copy of The Odyssey should have been the first clue that Meredith’s fun, routine procedure would turn into a seemingly endless adventure on this week’s Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 10. A tumor wrapped around a vein has stretched up around her heart and lungs. Luckily, she and her husband washed up on the shore of the Phaeacians, which include Bailey, Pierce, and Grey.
Case of the Week: A Lotus Eater style tumor that forgets it is full of a woman’s organs and keeps eating and eating.
If you don’t need the big gun, don’t pull it out. For April and Jackson, Dr. Herman’s big guns seem a lifetime away as they wait for the results of their exam to determine the strain of the disease their baby is battling. Worst case, Type 2, the baby lives a possible 18 months on ventilators and feeding tubes with bones that could shatter during a diaper change. Or, if Type 3 is diagnosed, they still need to be extremely careful, but the odds of survival are much greater. Jackson wants to make a plan for either Type 2 or 3 so that when the news does arrive, they are prepared. April wants to put off the discussion because she knows that Jackson wants to terminate at Type 2 results.
The hardware that Jenna, a tech rep, is selling to Grey-Sloan Memorial is not Owen’s type. But, to be fair, his hardware is not exactly her type either. Jenna drops a series of innuendos that intrigue Callie enough to approach her on Owen’s behalf, but her enjoyment of the attention fades quickly. Too much, too soon.
Alex may not be living up to Cristina’s standards of what a “person” should be and Meredith’s sleep is suffering because of it. As Bailey, Maggie, and Meredith wait for the tumor to print, Meredith spills that she has trouble sleeping by herself. Amelia joins in to comment that Meredith is the least alone person she has ever met. Even when Derek was away or on call, Meredith had Cristina in her bed.
Bailey and Amelia share similar tales, but Pierce runs on the opposite end of the spectrum. Instead of sharing her bed with her boyfriend, she would wait until he fell asleep and run off to the couch. When he proposed, she countered with separate beds or no deal. Sometimes you can be too good at being alone.
Jackson and April are in the midst of saying their sides when Mrs. Kepner returns to Seattle, mass schedule in hand. April’s faith is of paramount importance to her life — a fact that Mrs. Kepner uses to shut down any of Jackson’s comments. But April cannot take the arguing any longer and snaps at them both. The journey is easy to argue about when you are on the outside looking at a lump on a woman’s body. Inside, April is alone and sitting with her baby Buddah watching the battle unfold.
Dr. Herman has a crash course of babies lined up for Arizona to organize into impossible, possible, and undecided. In light of her timeline, Herman recognizes that the babies which do not fit into her remaining hours might as well be counted as casualties. A thought that she does not hold back from Amelia.
With Herman’s life and a mounting pile of dead babies at risk, Amelia’s vision is tunneled to the point that no resident stands a chance to learn from her teaching. All save one, Stephanie. And one is just enough to offer her the boost to attack the tumor from all angles.
The Lotus Eaters, aka Cyclops, is printed and ready for dissection. Alex makes his presence in the lab to ramble off some fancy medical terminology that sparks an entirely new journey into the void. He is the final Phaeacian the team needs. Before they can secure a map, the Lotus Eater starts to bleed and it is time to attack.
The doctors rally around the tumor and make the right incisions, the right measurements, and the right dissection to stop the Lotus Eater from dining inside the patient’s cavity. Meredith cannot make a model of Derek to bring home, but she brings home the next best thing and sits with her tumor beside her and decides to call a new “person.” Maggie.
Arizona, meanwhile, approaches Jackson and April to prepare for a big guns conversation.
Watch Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 11, “All I Could Do Was Cry,” Thursday, February 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.
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