I'm walking through the halls with Jackson minding our business when I get a email. I was shocked to see that Pierce was quitting.
Delilah: is this real?
Suddenly, I hear Bailey's voice behind us.
Bailey: wait. Maggie Pierce is quitting?!
Jackson: I know. Delilah and I are into it.Then, Owen joins us.
Owen: Avery, Avery-Shepherd, tell me I'm not losing another cardio Chief.
Delilah: Jackson and I are into it Owen, okay? Catherine's already called us both twice. I love the woman, but it's a PR nightmare.
Bailey: she's damn right it is– first Russell, then Yang, now Pierce?
Owen: Yang and I busted our asses interviewing people, and now I have to start this whole process over?
Bailey: well, evidently, because it looks like we hire from week to week. We're a revolving door. Hey, you heard about Pierce?I turn around to look at Webber who joined the group.
Webber: uh, yeah. I just read the email.
Bailey: well, what should we do?
Webber: I don't see anything we can do
Bailey: well... I mean, we should talk to her.
Webber: not me.Webber walks off.
Bailey: we– okay, well, I didn't mean you! I meant all of us! We should get the whole board together, do a full court press.
Jackson: uh, yeah, yeah. You spearhead that.
Delilah: yeah Bailey.
Bailey: well, I will. Lucky for you, the board just got a transfusion of new blood. Maybe I could keep this place from looking like a clown car. Maggie Pierce cannot quit.-later-
I walk into the OR with Amy to find Pierce with a patient.
Amy: you cannot quit.
Maggie: uh-huh. Word's out. How you feeling Roy?
Roy: I like this mattress. I got to get me one of these. Mine is all foofy.
Maggie: we will see what we can do.
Amy: what is this about you resigning?
Maggie: graft's deployed. Let's inject the dye.
Amy: will you at least tell me why you're leaving.
Maggie: that is between me and my employer Dr. Shepherd.
Amy: ah.
Maggie: I'm seeing diminished perfusion to the spine.I stand at the end of the table towards his toes.
Delilah: Roy, wiggle your toes for me please.
I watch the toes, but they don't wiggle.
Roy: like that?
Maggie: wiggle a little harder.
Delilah: Amy, check his babinski reflex.Amy checks and his toes fan out.
Maggie: when the toes fan out reflexively, what's that indicate?
Jo: just what you're afraid of– high spinal injury. Is he paralyzed?
Maggie: try it again.
Roy: s-something's wrong? I can't feel my legs. What's happening?
Maggie: Roy, it's possible that the blood to your spine has been cut off by the graft, but I'm gonna do everything I can to fix it, okay?
Roy: okay. Please do. Please.
Maggie: I'm gonna give you something to let you sleep.
Delilah: start with trying to induce hypertension. See if we can enhance spinal perfusion.I page my dad to help out and we go on. As we roll the guy on his side, dad comes in.
Dad: what do you need?
Delilah: looks like paralysis caused by SCI during a tevar procedure.
Maggie: I've induced hypertension and adjusted the stent to alleviate, but nothing has worked.
Amy: he needs immediate spinal-cord drainage.
Dad: you and Amy are here. Why do you need me?
Delilah: I have stuff to do, and Amy has to help me out, so you can take it. Perks of being Chief of Neuro.
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