[opening voiceover] After a trauma, your body is at its most vulnerable. Response time is critical. So you're suddenly surrounded by people, doctors, nurses, specialists, technicians; surgery is a team sport. Everyone pushing for the finish line. Putting you back together again. But surgery is a trauma in and of itself, and once it's over, the real healing begins. We call it recovery. Recovery is not a team sport. It's a solitary distance run. It's long. It's exhausting. And it's lonely as hell.
“It's a Long Way Back” · Season 7, Episode 19
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Cristina Yang (2), Callie Torres (2), Alex Karev (1), Miranda Bailey (1), Arizona Robbins (1), Mark Sloan (1), Lexie Grey (1)
Hey, it's healing pretty well. Maybe in a couple days you can try sitting up by yourself.
Let's try now.
Can't rush it.
Why'd I get you? Why aren't you cutting out hearts somewhere?
Well, Altman and I had a falling out over your ventricular septal defect, actually. I'm giving her some space. Okay, you're good. You need anything?
I need to see my baby.
She's mostly tubes and wires. And she looks more like a chicken than a baby. Like a featherless, beakless chicken. You want to wait until she's cuter.
You're the worst godmother ever.
You picked me.
[Alex is handing out folders]
What's this?
What's this? It's your kid, your African kid.
Oh, that's happening?
Today?
Tonight. The first group gets here tonight. I've been telling you this all week. Look, each of you gets your own kid. Some of them will be traveling with family, a few of them are orphans, so you are in charge of your kid, alright? You're like their ambassador. [hands a folder to Cristina, but takes it back] Wait, you can't have her. You'd be awful to her. [Lexie laughs] Okay, him. [hands her another folder] No. Yes, him.
He's melting down.
Trainwreck.
Evil spawn is now Mother Teresa.
[about her baby] She's not ready, no she can't leave. She's been watched by doctors twenty four hours a day...
She still willl.
Okay, well, her lungs. She could get RSV.
Well, any kid could get...
She's not getting in a car. It's not safe.
Callie...
It's not safe. The last time she was in a car, she nearly died, we both nearly died. Get-- get her out of that thing. Give her to me, Mark. I'm- I'm not kidding, [crying] get- get her out of that thing.
Callie... Callie... Okay, you're right. You are absolutely right. Cars are not safe for children. Okay, neither are bookcases or squirrels, strong winds, people who sneeze. They're all going to get your baby. But honey, you don't feel this way because you were in an accident. You feel this way because you are a parent. It'll pass... mostly. Some of it never will.
[closing voiceover] The length of your recovery is determined by the extent of your injuries. And it's not always successful. No matter how hard we work at it. Some wounds might never fully heal. You might have to adjust to a whole new way of living. Things may have changed too radically to ever go back to what they were. You might not even recognize yourself. It's like you haven't recovered anything at all. You're a whole new person with a whole new life.
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