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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 3:59 pm 
No, it wouldn't have been any better.. unfortunately, or fortunately, I suppose.
I mean, I assume they had rules out non-surgical treatments earlier.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 4:26 pm
That's correct. They said the tumor had engulfed (dissolved?) the pulmonary artery, so there was no saving him. Even if they had not done the surgery, he would have survived only a few more weeks.
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Hypermom
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Thanks all!
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 6:29 pm
I think they used the word "eroded" about the tumor and pulmonary artery. It stuck with me because I had a car that had the break lines rust and erode right into the fuel line. I saw the tumor as doing something like that.
So sad. I loved Henry. And the acting done by Sandra Oh, just with her silhouette in the window, when she found out who she'd just operated on, was Emmy worthy, for sure.
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 6:39 pm
Does Sandra Oh get anywhere near the accolades she deserves on this show? She needs to have Emmy after Emmy on her mantle. She is amazing, and IMHO the best actor (male or female) on this show. I don't think anyone could do Christina's complicated multi-layered character any better.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 11, 2011 - 8:14 pm
Smokey, thanks for helping. I knew I didn't have the right word, but couldn't remember it! 
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 7:02 am
I had a friend die three years ago this coming January from basically the same situation. In his case they did open his chest but discovered there was no way to remove the tumor as it had basically consumed the pulmonary artery, it had invaded so much of the artery that there was no way to patch it. They did not attempt to remove it and closed him. It gave us a couple of days to say our goodbyes and he passed on.
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Chitchat58
Member
07-25-2008
| Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 8:42 pm
I was disturbed by the lack of emotion Christina showed when she thought the person she was operating on was just any joe blow. It's a sad state if surgeons really feel this way about the patients they have no connection to. I hope real doctors don't do this, it could be scary.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 10:23 am
I think Christina takes the impersonal to a higher level than the other Drs. This is one of the things they were trying to teach her. However Teddy was trying to use this detachment to her husbands advantage as she thought Christina would be much calmer if she did not know the patient and really thought it was just "one more patient"
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:44 am
Why don't they writers blog anymore?
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Hypermom
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, December 02, 2011 - 2:18 pm
Grey's Anatomy Exclusive: Derek and Addison Reunite, But There's a Twist – And It Is a Doozy!
Grey’s Anatomy is pulling a Fringe.
In a February 2012 sweeps episode, the docs at Seattle Grace will be making their rounds in an alternate reality, as the ABC drama ponders the provocative question, “What if things had been different — very different.”
Specifically, Meredith imagines what life would’ve been like had her late mother Ellis never had Alzheimer’s, a traumatic situation that shaped Mer into the dark-and-twisty wife and MD she is today.
<snip>
http://www.tvline.com/2011/12/greys-anatomy-season-8-spoiler-addison-derek/
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 11:14 pm
It seems like forever. I think tonight's rerun was that last new show from weeks ago. Next week is finally a new show. I don't like the December / holiday hiatus.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, December 30, 2011 - 8:03 am
It has been a long dry spell between shows, hasn't it? But at least I've managed to get some oddball stuff done around the house!
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Connies
Member
03-11-2010
| Friday, December 30, 2011 - 12:56 pm
That is funny Roxip, I was just telling a friend the other day how much I am getting done around the house with all these blasted repeats!!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, December 30, 2011 - 1:16 pm
I have cleaned out my pantry...PAINTED the inside (it was hunter green - things got lost in it), bought (or been given) plastic containers to keep the buggies out and my DD gave me a labelmaker (at my request - yes, I'm officially weird) for Christmas and I have been a labelling fool! I blame all of this on the labelmaker...it caused me to do the painting and the organizing...LOL!
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Snee
Member
06-26-2001
| Friday, December 30, 2011 - 1:48 pm
i got a labelmaker too! i'm labeling the HECK outta everything!
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Wednesday, January 04, 2012 - 6:38 pm
You guys are funny.
TOMORROW!!!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 05, 2012 - 8:09 am
TODAY! You should get one...they are addictive...and you can buy labels is such pretty colors.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 05, 2012 - 8:24 pm
Okay, I will admit it...I cried at the end of tonight's show. Such a tragic, beautiful episode...it might be the best one I've seen in a while (of course it could also be that we've been in the Christmas break for so long that I'm just gonna love just about any new episode out!). Honestly though, I thought it was a really good episode.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, January 05, 2012 - 8:53 pm
Me too! **sniff sniff**
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, January 06, 2012 - 1:17 am
I watched the last episode last night and then the new one tonight and I certainly shed tears.
I think it WAS a beautiful and tragic episode and I loved the end too.
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Mom2lexi
Member
05-16-2011
| Friday, January 06, 2012 - 1:58 pm
It was so engrossing, I didn't notice I had gone 2 miles on the treadmill! I got off it just in time to bawl over the ending!
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Snee
Member
06-26-2001
| Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 12:51 am
sad tears, happy tears--all kinds of tears!
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 7:56 pm
Do not miss tonight's show. It is intense!! There are some sweet moments, too.
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Rvon
Member
12-11-2003
| Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 11:26 pm
I did not care for Bailey's story line at all. I muted my t.v. every time she came on. The story line is stupid.
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