Never lose Hope

Mr. Bamberger is changing from a hospital gown to clothes and is very angry. Dr.Lasher arrives and asks him what he’s doing and he says that he [Dr.Lasher] said that he would vaccuum the fat out of Mr.Bamberger’s ass at 10 o’clock that morning. He drops his pants and says the fat is still there. Dr. Lasher apologizes and says they had admisnistrative issues and they’ll reschedule the surgery. Mr.B asks when and Dr.L says he can’t sauy for certain. Mr.B walks past Dr. L and remarks that he knew he should’ve gone to Mercy West and says that he better not get a bill or Dr.L will be hearing from his lawyer. He leaves.

David, Todd, Keith, Dr. Evett

Dr.Evett- David Covington (30) has a brain tumor. Dr.Smith enters the room and finds Dr.Evett there. Dr.Evett is David’s regular neurologist who’s been treating him at Seattle General. Dr.Smith and Dr.Evett make the usual introductions and Dr.Evett says that he’s glad that Dr.Smith was able to get David into the program. Dr.Smith points out that there are an enormous amount of risks involved but they’ll have to better assess which they’ll know with a new CT. Dr.Smith begins to roll Davd out.

Keith- Dr.Tompson enters the room and finds Dr.Evett and Keith (David’s father) there. Dr.Tompson explains the procedure they’re going to do. They are going to inject a virus into the tumor which will cut off it’s blood supply and basically starve it. Keith asks if they’ve had success doing that and Dr.Tompson says there’s only been one other patient. At the doorway, Todd remarks that it’s ok because David has survived two tours in Afghanistan so he’s used to risk. David asks his dad if he called his whole platoon and Keith (David’s dad) says he only called Todd and Todd says he called the whole platoon. Keith says that if David’s going to beat this he’s going to need his friends by his side.

David – Dr.Tompson is drawing David’s blood and Todd is sitting by his bedside. They are having a guarded conversation and are very aware of Dr.T’s presence. Todd asks Dr:t what’s the recovery period for brain surgery. Dr.T says it varies but usually 4-6 weeks and Todd remarks to David that he’ll be stuck with him for another 4-6 weeks. David tells him not to be an idiot and that he ships out in 5 days and Todd answers he doesn’t have to. David tells Todd to not screw this up for himself. That he’s a soldier, it’s who he is and David is probably not going to survive the surgery. Todd jokes and says that’s cool because then he’ll be ready to go in 5 days so they don’t even have to have this argument. David asks him why he came and Todd answers how could he not. Todd takes David’s hand and David looks nervously at Dr.T. Todd says he’s too paranoid. Dr.T announces that she’s finished and she’ll leave them both and she pick sup her chart. David and Todd aren’t even paying attention to her anymore and are looking at each other. Todd is leaning in for a slow, sexy kiss filled with so much yearning and longing (that’s the side description –not mine lol). Suddenly David’s dad shows up and yells “Mr.Covington!”. David and Todd look at keith and the whole room goes deathly quiet.

Dr.Tompson enters David’s room to shave his head for surgery. Dr.T tells David that Todd is in the lobby and he wanted him to know. David says that Todd an idiot and should just go and forget about him. Dr.T says that’s not an easy thing to do. David agrees but says it would be better for everyone especially with Dr.Evett around. Todd can’t risk getting outed or he’d lose everything he’s worked for. Dr.T says it’s crazy that he has to worry about that. David remarks –don’t ask, don’t tell. He knew the deal when he signed on but he figured he would just keep his work life separate from his personal life. He didn’t count on meeting his personal life at work. Dr.T hands David a mirror and asks him if he wants to watch. David tells Dr.T that this is longest he’s ever had his hair since he enlisted. He survived 6 years of active duty and he can’t believe it’s a tumor that’s probably going to kill him. Dr.T says she can get Todd but David says no because of his dad. David goes on and say he knows what Dr.T is thinking. He’s a brave soldier who can’t even stand up to his father. Dr.T says that’s not what she’s thinking. She’s thinking that this is hard. David asks the tumor part or the gay part and Dr.T answers ‘the whole part’. Dr.T starts to shave David’s head for surgery.

Todd- the scene where David’s dad shows up just as David and Todd are about to kiss is slightly longer. After the room goes quiet, Keith (David’s dad) tells Todd to get out. David and Keith look at each other and David drops his hand immediately. Keith tells Todd to not make him throw him out. Todd looks at David and tells him not to worry that he’s not going anywhere. Todd walks out.

In the ICU hallway (night): Dr.T is monitoring david’s progress and Keith is watching from the hallway. Todd approaches with 2 cups of coffee. Todd says the coffee tastes awful but keeps you awake. Keith doesn’t acknowledge him. Todd says that he knows his presence in uncomfortable for keith but he can’t leave. He was trained not to leave a man when he’s down. A man is down and they both [Todd and Keith] love him.

Lucas, Kyra, Jessie, Zoe

Last case is of a woman named Kyra who has congestive heart failure and needs surgery. Her husband is named Lucas and they have two daughters: Zoe (9) and Jessie (5) who’s dressed as a princess.

Lucas - Dr. Smith is administering “medical” to Kyra. Lucas gave the girls gum because they’re mother is living in a hospital and going to have surgery so they should have as much sugar they want. Kyra says they better watch out when she gets her new heart and Lucas says they can’t wait. Zoe asks what Dr.Smith is doing. Lucas answers it’s something way too complicated for a 5 year old to understand and picks her up and gives her a hug. Nighttime – Lucas picks Zoe up to give her mom a kiss before the doctors fix her heart. Lucas notices Kyra’s neck muscles straining and tells Dr:Smith there’s something wrong. Dr. Smith who was charting rushes over and asks what happened. Lucas says that she just started gasping for air. Dr.Smith thinks her lung dropped and orders Dr.Brown to be paged. Kyra lies motionless and Lucas is scared. He asks Dr.S if he should be doing something. Dr.S grabs a mask and gloves, pushes Lucas out of the way and and starts to pull out a large needle…

Zoe – The beggining is similar to the Lucas side except the doctor is now Dr.James. Dr. James says to a nurse “medical, medical” and Zoe asks her mom what that means. Kyra tells her not to worry, she’s still too young. Dr.James explains to Zoe that it’s like Snow White. When she eats the poison apple and she’s dead for a while but not really dead. Zoe asks if her mom is going to be dead and Dr.J says ‘no’ and then ‘yes technically’ but it’s okay because she’s going to come back to life. Zoe is scared and looks at her mom.

Jessie – The beginning is similar to the side for Lucas. Jessie asks Dr.James if she likes princesses and she says yeah, sure. Jessie asks who’s Dr.James’ favorite princess and Dr.J says she doesn’t know and asks Jessie what’s hers. Jessie answers Snow White. Dr.J holds out the stethoscope and asks Jessie if she wants to listen to her mom’s heart. Jessie perks up.

Kyra – Total chaos in the room. Kyra is having a panic attack. Lucas stands helplessly by. Kyra says to Lucas that she needs him to hold her without the wires in her. She needs him to kiss her with a nurse taking her blood pressure every 5 minutes. She says he can’t do this anymore. Lucas tells her he’s right there. Kyra says he’s not. She can’t touch him outside of the bed and she can’t play with the kids. She needs to get out of there. Kyra sees Dr.Brown and says Dr.B told he she’d have a heart in 3 weeks and it’s been 8 weeks in that bed and in that room. Dr.B tells Kyra to listen to her but Kyra continues…She says she doesn’t want anymore of Dr.B’s promises. She wants to leave. She wants to hug her kids and kiss her husband. She needs hands sticky with peanut butter and her husband’s morning breath. Asks if Dr.B can imagine missing morning breath and then says she’s going crazy in there. Dr.B approaches the bed and reaches out to Kyra. Kyra takes her hand. Dr.B tells Kyra that she will leave the room soon. That’s what Dr.B had come to tell her, they had a heart for her.

The next scene in the side is the scene with the kids in the room and Dr.James telling Jessie that her mom will be dead like Snow White. Jessie asks “Snow White dies??” and runs to her mother’s bed. Dr. James apologizes and says she thought Jessie knew. Kyra tells Dr.J that they never let her watch till the end. When they’re little you skip over the scary parts. Dr:J apologizes again and Kyra says it’s ok because Dr.J doesn’t have kids so how would she know.

Wayne – (In the hospital conference room) Dr.Smith and Dr.Walker enter the room and meet Wayne the HR manager. Dr.Smith asks what is the problem. Wayne informs them that no formal harassment complaints have been filed however the Hospital Board wants to protect itself from possible future litigation. Dr. Smith asks if he means sexual harassment. Wayne answers yes and that as of that day every hospital employee is going to fill out a form stating all their past and current workplace relationships. Wayne hands them a stack of forms.