Carol is asleep on the couch when her mother comes in.  She wants to know where Doug is.  Carol tells her that he is gone, but Helen thinks he has already gone to work.  Carol does not tell her any different.  Carol goes to stand up and gets dizzy.  Her mother asks her if she is okay and Carol tells her yes.  She offers to make her breakfast, but Carol tells her that she will be late for work.  Peter calls in and speaks with Romano.  He tells him that he has an appointment, but Romano tells him that a surgery has been rescheduled and he has to come in.  Peter will not be able to go to Reese’s open house.  Reese ends up putting his hearing aid in the toilet.  Kerry is at a nursing home visiting an older woman.  She tells someone on staff there that the woman is in congestive heart failure and needs some help.  The staff will not help Kerry because the woman is an L.P.N..  They do not have medical facilities.  The woman’s name is Mrs. Brennan and she is Kerry’s mother.  She is a D.N.R., but Kerry takes her to the ER anyway.  Lucy starts her Psych rotation today.  Carter is Senior for the day.  That means that he is in charge of the ER.  This is to help him along in becoming a chief resident someday.  It is April Fools Day and Jerry is very happy.  He has the opportunity to play jokes on everyone.  A father brings in his three-year-old son and he will not wake up.  Kerry is with the paramedics who bring her mom in.  Carter sees that the woman is a D.N.R., but Kerry wants to save her.  She wants everything done for this woman.  She does not let them know that she is her mother.  Elizabeth is discharging Mobalage.  Mark speaks to a lawyer who tells him that he will only get a continuance for a physical disability.  Mark takes it upon himself to readmit him to keep him from being deported.  Mark tells Mobalage and his wife that he will have to tell a psychiatrist and a judge about his torture.  If he can’t, he will be deported.  Carol and Elizabeth speak outside of the hospital.  Carol tells her that she does not want to be a single mom.  She also tells Elizabeth that she has not told Doug yet.  Kerry checks on Mrs. Brennan.  She is asking for Claire.  Kerry looks confused, but she responds by telling her that she is at the hospital and that she is in good care.  Carter learns that his young patient that was brought in by his father has ingested cocaine that was lying around the house.  Mobalage wants Mark with him when he speaks to the lawyer and psychiatrist.  Mobalage has a hard time telling the story of his capture.  He can not remember all of the details.  Mark tells them that Mobalage has posttraumatic stress disorder.  This is the reason for his forgetfulness.  The lawyer says that he will still have to tell the whole story to be able to stay in the country.  Coco is back after having had a baby in the streets.  She has been off of her medication since the last time she was seen in the ER.  Kerry has her put back on her haldol.  Coco wants to see her baby, but Carol and Carter are checking on him to make sure he is okay.  She thinks Carol is trying to steal her baby, so she goes to attack her and Kerry steps in to help.  Security comes and gets Coco restrained.  Peter gets upset when he learns that the surgery he had to come in for has been rescheduled for a later time.  This has caused Reese to have to stay at the hospital daycare longer.  Elizabeth mentions to Peter that she's applying for a new trauma surgery fellowship in the summer.  She mentions that the hours are better.  Later on, Peter speaks with Kerry about doing a paper together on the sternal saw study.  She doesn’t seem too interested.  He also mentions about the fellowship that Elizabeth was telling him about.  She tells him that he will need to speak with Anspaugh about it.  Kerry does not want Romano to know about the new position.  Carol goes to check on Coco.  The haldol is working and she is a lot calmer now.  Coco tells Carol that she is sorry for the way she was behaving.  Coco lets Carol know that she will stay on her medication now that the baby is born.  Coco wants to keep her baby.  A woman brings in her four-month-old baby.  Carter is taking care of her.  Carter gets a x-ray and runs some test to see what the problem is.  The woman also has her other child with her and he is very disruptive and Carter notices that he has a cast on his arm.  When Carter gets the chest x-ray back, the technician shows that the child has four rib fractures.  Carter then takes it upon himself to call security and the Department of Children and Family Services ( D.C.F.S.).  Carter tells the mother, Mrs. Leason, that she can not take her kids with her.  The police come and hold the woman.  Mark talks with Kubby about her husband’s torture.  He has never been able to speak with her about it.  She tells Mark that she will go with her husband if he has to leave the country.  She thanks him for all of his help.  Carol checks on Mrs. Brennan.  She does not see any improvement.  Kerry is in there with her and Carol asks her why she is treating her so aggressively when the woman has a D.N.R..  Carol gets upset because of the way Kerry treated Doug when he did things like this.  After arguing for a short while about it, Kerry tells her that Mrs. Brennan is her mother.  Carol and Kerry speak about it.  Kerry did not expect to find her mother and have her be so old.  Carol apologizes and tries to help.  Peter finally gets to do the surgery that he came in early to do.    Romano tells him that he can go home to his munchkin.  Peter tells him that his name is Reese.  Elizabeth sees Peter and asks him why he butted in to her ER fellowship.  He tells her that he doesn't like cardio thoracic and that it seemed like a good opportunity to spend more time with Reese.  She hates the way he used Reese for that and tells him so.  Elizabeth tells him to put in for it, but she will still get it.  Carter sees Sam again about the x-rays on the infant that was being abused.  There were twenty-eight fractures all together.  They also see a fifth rib fracture that wasn't there before.  They decide that the baby has a rare condition called osteogenesis imperfecta.  This means that the bones break like glass.  Carter now has to tell the mom.  Kerry speaks with the detective who found her mom.  Kerry tells him that the woman’s blood type would mean that she was not her mother.  She then fires him.  Kerry then goes in and checks on Mrs. Brennan.  She is asking again for Claire, who happens to be the woman’s daughter.  Kerry tells her that she is Claire and that “I love you mom”.  Mark goes to the restroom and remembers his attack that had happened a few years earlier.  This makes him tell Mobablage to help him open up about his abuse.  Mobalage is able to tell the whole story.  Carol ends up going to make an OB appointment.  She has decided to have her and Doug’s baby.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 12-06-2000