Sick and Tired

Ch 88

TW ED SH

It's early morning in the pit and a few interns are standing around gossiping.

"Did you hear that that one intern is back in the hospital?" The intern says and shakes his head.

"The one with the anorexia? Yeah that girl is never getting out. Wouldn't want to be her." Another says.

"She's just so crazy and not listening to anything anyone says. They had to restrain her and give her a feeding tube. Apparently they won't let her see her boyfriend until she starts eating. But she still refuses to eat. How stupid is that?" The first one says.

"Beyond stupid. If it were me I'd be smart enough to follow the rules and actually eat." The second intern says.

"If it were me I'd know better than to stand around gossiping about one of the interns in our class. And that intern also happens to be my best friend so you better watch what you say before I report you two to the chief. Who by the way is a father figure to that intern." Cristina says, glaring at the two interns. "Seems to me like you two are the stupid ones here."

"Sorry." The two interns sheepishly say and run off to another area of the pit looking for something to do.

Cristina shakes her head and then lets out a sigh. She decides that she doesn't care what they say about no visitors for Meredith, she is going to go see her right now. She leaves the pit and goes up to Meredith's floor. She gets off of the elevator and instantly hears someone wailing.

"No!!! I'm not getting weighed!! No! I refuse!" Meredith wails.

Cristina starts hurrying to where she hears Meredith's voice coming from.

"STOP! You don't need my weight! I'm not getting weighed! Leave me alone!" Meredith sobs.

Cristina finds the exam room Meredith is in and opens the door to see Meredith curled up in a ball in a corner sobbing and Dr Bailey trying to get her onto the scale.

Dr Bailey looks up at the door opening and glares at Cristina but then softens her gaze when she realizes that maybe Cristina can help.

"Cristina. I need your help. She's been refusing to get on the scale for the past 20 minutes. I need her weight." Dr Bailey says.

"No you don't!" Meredith wails.

"Can you help?"

"Yes. Of course." Cristina says. She walks over to Meredith and lays down next to her. "Hey Mer. Shhhhh calm down. You're okay!" Cristina notices the feeding tube in Meredith's nose.

"She wants to weigh me! I don't want to be weighed Cristina!" Meredith says sobbing.

"I know you don't. But we need to know your weight to help you get better. You want to get better right? Remember what I said last time? When you can get better we can go to Joe's again and make fun of Karev and O'Malley and have dance parties for just the two of us. But we can't do any of that right now. Okay we can still make fun of Karev and O'Malley but we can't do the other two things."

"W-we can dance in my room here?" Meredith says softly.

"No we can't Mer. You're not allowed to do any exercise because your weight is too low."

"It's not too low." Meredith says stubbornly.

"Mer... yes it is."

"What will make things easier for you if we were able to weigh you?" Cristina asks.

"I want Dr Bear!"

"Okay. I can go get him for you. Will you promise to let Dr Bailey weigh you if I go get him? And you can hold onto him after you are weighed."

"Before."

"After Mer. You have to stand on the scale without holding anything." Cristina says, brushing the hair out of Meredith's face.

"What do you think Grey? Can Cristina go get Dr Bear? And then I can weigh you?" Dr Bailey quietly asks Meredith.

"I- I guess so." Meredith says softly crying.

"Okay I'll be right back!" Cristina quickly leaves and goes down to Meredith's room and grabs Dr Bear out of Meredith's bed. She goes back over to the exam room to Dr Bailey and Meredith. "Okay Mer. I have Dr Bear. Can you step on the scale for Bailey now please?"

Meredith nods, looking at the bear.

"Look at me holding your bear and not at the scale. Step on backwards." Cristina instructs Meredith.

Meredith starts crying more as she steps onto the scale. She plays with her fingers nervously.

"Okay Mer! You're all done! You can hold Dr Bear now! Thank you for letting me weigh you." Dr Bailey says.

Meredith doesn't acknowledge Dr Bailey and just goes straight to Cristina and holds out her hands for Dr Bear. Cristina places Dr Bear in Meredith's arms and Meredith hugs the bear with tears spilling out of her eyes.

"Okay Grey! Time to go back to your room! Come sit in the wheelchair again please." Dr Bailey says.

Meredith goes over to the wheelchair and sits down while hugging her Bear.

Dr Bailey pushes Meredith back to her room with Cristina following. "Hold on Yang, let me get her in bed and then I'll come back and talk to you."

Bailey gets Meredith into bed and hooked back up to everything and then leaves and goes back into the hallway.

"Cristina, so even though I'm so grateful to you for getting her on that scale I can't have you come back to her room right now. She's not allowed any visitors until she decides to eat."

"Really Bailey? She's so upset from being weighed still and you still won't let her have visitors?!"

"Cristina, I hate not allowing her any visitors either. But she refuses to eat and Dr Wyatt thinks that if we refuse her any visitors she'll decide to eat. It's not ideal but she's so stubborn. Her vitals are horrible and her weight - I don't even want to talk about her weight Cristina."

Neither of them realize that Meredith has gotten out of her bed. Meredith was feeling so bad about her weight that she decided she needed to exercise and since Dr Bailey hadn't put her restraints back on her hands and feet yet she decides to get out of bed. She stands up and is instantly super dizzy. She grabs onto the bed quickly. "Woah..." She says softly. She decides to jog in place while holding onto the bed. She figures she can get exercise in while still holding onto the bed so she doesn't pass out. She starts jogging and her vision soon starts to darken but she ignores it and keeps going.

Dr Bailey has finished talking to Cristina and starts to head back into Meredith's room while grabbing her breakfast from the nurse that just came by with it.

She steps into the room and instantly sees Meredith out of bed and jogging in place. She sees on the monitors that Meredith's heart is not liking what she is doing and starts to beep loudly. Meredith starts to sway and before she can fall to the ground Bailey quickly catches her and puts her in her bed.

Meredith wakes up a minute after Bailey put her in bed. She wakes up to Bailey putting her restraints back on her hands and feet.

Bailey sees that Meredith is awake and shakes her head at her. "Meredith you know better. You know that will happen. You cannot exercise. You aren't even eating what makes you think you can exercise? I don't know what's going through your head to make you think that but it needs to stop! You will be restrained until you can be trusted not to exercise and not to pull your feeding tube out!"

"I HATE IT HERE! I WANT TO GO HOME!" Meredith yells. "Just let me go home and die." Meredith whispers under her breath.

Bailey hears the whisper and simply says, "No." She shakes her head. "Not on my watch. You will eat, Meredith Grey! I'm not letting you die. I will make sure you get better."