This week our patient was not one, but two people! Gasp! We have a mother, Abbey (played by Jennifer Grey. See DWTS, Dirty Dancing, ect.), and her new baby. The problem is that the child is having breathing problems and thus the drama ensues.
There are three main story lines in this episode.
(1) House has to babysit for Cuddy. He tries to get Wilson to do it for him so that he can go to the hospital and see what's wrong with the other baby. While they are outside arguing, Rachel (Cuddy's kid) eats a dime and trashes the living room. House doesn't tell Cuddy about the dime and sneaks her in to the hospital to do an ultrasound of Rachel's stomach to see where the dime is. In order to extend the time he has with Rachel, House messes with Wilson's radiation badge so that Cuddy will have to stay at the hospital. He gives her a laxative and after 4 hours, there's still no dime. This leads us to believe that she didn't really eat a dime, but in the very end Cuddy finds it in her diaper.
(2) The sick baby has dialated bile ducts, which leads teh team to think that it is a liver problem. They treat her for that but she doesn't get better. So, they hook her up to a blood transfusion of mom's blood and she miraculously seems healthier. As soon as they take her off the blood, she get sick again and the team decides it is a vascular malformation. Turns out its not that either. This can only mean one thing. Mom has something that she passed along to the baby. Answer: Melanoma. For some reason however, Abbey didn't feel sick at all. Turns out she also had lung cancer. Basically her cancer was treating her cancer. The team suggested they do surgery on her and start chemo on the baby so that both could live. Abbey refused and told them to just keep giving the baby her blood because it was treating her cancer. Abbey died of a pulmonary embolism later, but they had harvested enough blood to treat the baby.
(3) The hunt is still on for another doctor to replace 13. Foreman hire's someone but House fires her before even meeting her. He then instructs Taub to find a replacement. Taub starts talking to Dr. Cheng about taking the position. House is okay witht this but Taub just thinks it is all part of the game so he doesnt hire her. At the very end when he asks her to join she rejects him saying, "you acted like a child during this whole process. I hate kids."
Wish you well,
St. Ann
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