Treebywater Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I know I'm an idiot for even watching it... I've lived enough medical drama. But... This last week's episode... one of the main characters loses his father. And there is this dialogue between the character who loses his Dad, and another who had lost her father previously.... "I don't know how to exist in a world where my Dad doesn't." Friend says back: "That doesn't ever really change." And God.... doesn't that just say it all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Mom loved greys...I have about 16 hours of greys on the tivo since mom passed...can't watch it without thinking of my mother. And a co-worker "warned me" about the last episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calintay Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I watched it too and I cried soooo much! It was sad but oh so real! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewjumper Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 My brother and I wait in anticipation every week. Since I've moved home, we watch it together and even mom watches on occasion. It's our favorite show. I may be stupid. I know it's just TV, but man did it ever bring out the tears. Matt and I both sobbed all the way through it. After that quote was said, we lost it and had to pause the show until we could pull it back together. That doesn't sound very manly, eh? Two grown guys bawling over a tv show. Cancer can do that. It really hit home with all the fears we've had the last few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztweb Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I actually thought of all my friends here when I watched that show last week. So true, so true. God bless you guys. Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crystleshoe Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 i couldnt stop watching it even though i was crying so hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsGirl Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 The tears started for me when George was whispering to his dad to fight, and then the family was standing around the bed turning off life support...but when he said that line about existing in this world, he summed it all up for me and the loss of my mom. I can't believe you posted about this tonight, Val. I had missed the last part of the episode and I just watched the rest tonight on ABC's website. I've been feeling kind of silly b/c it is only a TV show and it was so meaningful to me, but that hit right in the gut... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeR Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Val, I also watch Grey's. I totally agree with you...those quotes say it all. It has been over 2 years since my dad passed away. I am still trying to figure out how to exist in this world when my dad doesn't. So I guess when she says "that doesn't ever really change"...well, like you said, it says it all! Diane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlegirl Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 My favorite show, but hit a little too close to home this time as my dad has been dancing too close to the pearly gates lately. He is not the one with cancer but many other health issues that indicate his time here on earth is limited. AND I actually watched Grey's right after watching the Oprah special with Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby's families. I think I saturated the couch with tears! Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelepal Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Boy, did it bring back so many memories! How about when Christine said to George welcome to the dead Dad's club. That's one club I wish I wasn't in.. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacake Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 No, it never really changes. It has been 33 years since Daddy died. I was 17 when Daddy died and there hasn't been a big decision in my life as I've become an adult that I didn't wonder what advice he would give. Fran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathy Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 That was sooo hard to watch ..I cant believe I sat through it, too many reminders..I cant believe how realistic it was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamataca Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I'm with you. I joined 'the club' in 1978--like the char on the show, when I was 9. I think it would astound many who know me how much that STILL affects me. Like someone said here earlier, it doesn't get 'easier', but it does get 'dfferent'. You do see the world differently as one in the club, though. Kelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsarah Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I don't usually watch Grey's anatomy but I flicked to it the other night right at that part and I could not take my eyes off the screen. I specifically related to the comment made by the other doctor re: its a feeling you really don't understand unless you go through it, a sort of "club". Very true. Sarah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyT Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I sat and cried thru the whole show......... NancyT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treebywater Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 I think the reason that they captured it all so beautifully was that.... the writer for those two episodes used HER story. George's Dad's journey was her Dad's journey. So rather than being a story written to be 'dramatic,' it was real heartbreak, that we know all too well. And that *she* knew all too well. I'm still thinking on it all. I said things when I watched it that I wouldn't let myself say when I walked through it with Mom. And I cried in ways I rarely let myself cry. Watching it was a really good thing for me. Anyway--I thought you guys might like to know that it was a 'real story.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharyn Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Didn't know it was a real story, that makes it even more special. I too watched, and I too was touched deeply by it. I guess we were all watching and weeping together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdjenkins Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I too watched the show. I knew what the story was about but for some reason I had to watch. I cried so hard through the show that my eyes were swollen at the end. I really lost it at the "Dead Dad's Club" line. I feel the same way as George. Always kind of lost without my Dad. Denise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Up there with one of my favorites. I know exactly what you mean, Val. Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsGirl Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I think it also touched me b/c I have two brothers and two sisters and we were all very close to my mom. We would sit around in the hospital room and it was a lot like George's family - my brothers being eternally obnoxious, etc. Then when Mom was went into the hospice, and they thought she only had a few minutes left, we all stood around the bed and held her hands and stroked her head and cried and told her we loved her - that scene just brought it all back. I figured the person that wrote that had some experience with it, b/c it was very realistic... I don't think I could watch it again... For those of you that missed it and want to see it, you can go to ABC.com and click on Full Episodes. Pick Grey's Anatomy and it's the 1/18 episode.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mskim Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 The club... the dead dad club, the dead mom club... I cried and cried and cried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheri Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Val, I actually posted this on another board the night of the episode: Are any of you fans? I just started getting into it, bought the first season for the kid and have been renting the second season for her. Unfortunately, the Movie Gallery does not have episodes 5-10 of the second season and she refuses to watch the third season without watching the complete second season. Whatever. I watched it tonight and teared up when the guy who pulled the plug on his dad said: " I don't know how to exist in a world my Dad doesn't". We get scan results next week, but I'm thinking regardless of the results, I'm going to fix up a nice weekend resort in his finished walk out basement (His house was built on a hill) and just be there for him. Gawd, I love that man! The scan results came back stable btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teresag Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Nothing to say but Amen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K and Kids Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 I was touched by those lines too. It really hit home. I don't know why I watch things like this either except that sometimes it validates what I am already feeling. Then I can pick up and go on. Is is it a kind of release or permission to "go there" when I might not normally let myself? I don't know. I just heard this week that a highschool friend of mine passed away late last week from colon cancer. He suffered greatly and some how I can't find the sense in it all. I am numb all over again. Each time it hits hard. The tears don't come ... just an overwhelming feeling of helplessness or something. I'm just rambling ... Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea B. Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I watch Grey's all the time and I was just repeating that line to my husband and said that line says it all. I don't know how to function in a world without my mom. I paddle along, but not really getting anywhere. I sobbed when they talked about letting his father go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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