But she’s finally breathing on her own.
Did Meredith open her eyes this episode?
No, she did not.
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(Seriously, what was up with the merry-go-round and swing set?)
Lexi looks exactly like she did almost 10 seasons ago.
I hope whatever magical elixirChyler Leightakes is sold on Amazon.
As for Mark, other than a confusing white goatee, McSteamy is just as I remember him.
Back in the real world, Grey Sloan Memorial is facing an unfathomable reality.
There are only four ventilators left in the hospital and exactly zero hope for any more to arrive.
He just assumed the vents would go to COVID patients.
Like the mother/daughter duo.
Marcella, the mom, is struggling to breathe.
Schmidt is doing everything he can NOT to put her on a ventilator.
Maggie rushes between the two cases, desperate to save them both.
Meanwhile, Jackson reminds Maggie that Marcella instructed them to do whatever they could to save Veronica.
After Veronica tries to get out of bed to say goodbye to her mother, she crashes.
The team is forced to intubate.
Veronica gets the last ventilator in the hospital.
Only there’s no ventilator for him.
He stands there, dumbfounded, pumping air into Marcella’s lungs with the bag.
There has to be a ventilator coming, right?
Maggie trudges out of the hospital to get some fresh air and plops down beside Winston.
She urges him to quit with her, and he smiles, offering to check in on her patients.
The next thing we know, we see Marcella and Veronica in the same room, sharing a ventilator.
Jackson explains in great medical detail how this is possible, and I believe him.
Thanks to Maggie’s genius brain, she’s just doubled the vents at the hospital.
The team celebrates with an impromptu dance-off.
Richard wins by a long shot.
Cut to McSteamy, Lexi, and Meredith lounging in a meadow full of flowers.
Let’s not pull too hard at that string since we technically are in a dream.
Lexi and Mark remind Meredith of the pain, grief, and loss she’s experienced in her life.
Lexi tells her sister that the depth of her grief is directly related to the depth of her love.
She should embrace it.
Irene, who has been in town taking care of Cormac’s kids, has a massive kidney stone.
Cormac has no problem calling in Catherine Fox to pulverize the blockage between Irene’s kidney and bladder.
Before surgery, Irene asks to meet the surgeon who makes Cormac “smile like that.”
Cormac’s head drops as he explains that Meredith is on a breathing tube in the ICU.
It brings back memories of his wife for both of them.
The good news is that Catherine slam dunks the surgery.
Jo informs Cormac that there has been a complication.
She calmly listens as Cormac begs her to save Irene.
He can’t tell his boys that they’ve lost their aunt, too.
She calls out to Catherine, “You took her kidney?”
Catherine barks her response, “I’m going to put it back.”
I think it was the first time I’ve laughed watchingGrey’s Anatomyin 10 episodes.
Fortunately, Irene makes a full recovery, and all is well.
We see Lexi and Mark encouraging Meredith one last time not to waste a single minute of her life.
In real-time, Meredith begins breathing on her own.
Which sparks another dance-off.
Jackson easily owns this round, thanks to his precise execution of the cabbage patch.
Here’s hoping Meredith finally opens her eyes so she can attend the wedding.
