Kerry comes into work on her day off and Luka insists on
her going home but she is already there so its no use. Morris tells the staff
that there is a blood shortage so they shouldn’t use it if they don’t need it.
Kerry goes upstairs and Dr. Kline tells her she shouldn’t have cancelled
because its messing up his schedule, Kerry says that she’s sorry about messing
his schedule up but the ER comes first.
Ray is treating a man with a lot of gold jewelry, the rings
and bracelets are cutting off his circulation and the necklaces are eroding
into his skin. Kerry finds a kielbasa in the drug fridge and Abby tells her
that its Jerry’s. Abby shows Kerry a picture of her baby and Kerry
accidentally walks into a cart and it only makes her hip hurt worse.
Neela comes in with a container of cookies that people can
eat. A triple trauma comes in, a car that hit a jogger. Kerry is going between
trauma rooms to see if they need anything. Morris’s patient, the jogger, is
bleeding internally. Luka sees Kerry take a few pills, Luka tells Neela to see
if Kerry needs anything when she goes next door. They don’t need a surgical
consult and are ok otherwise so Neela leaves. Kerry drops a syringe on the
floor, Ray and Sam watch as she tries to pick it up but she cant so Sam picks
it up. Pratt has a patient in exam room three who swallowed a light bulb and
needs surgery to get it out but Neela can’t do it because she has the patients
from the trauma to see to first. Morris got the x-ray on the jogger man and
calls Neela over so she can look at it. The passenger of the car asks Abby to
call her parents for her, she has an elevated temperature and she wants to
know when her bruises will go away. Abby and Chuny look at her arms and legs.
Abby tells Chuny to put on a mask and make sure that the girl stays in
isolation. She walked into the other trauma room where the driver of the car
was being pronounced. She says that they have ‘Menager proxima’. The other
girl had all the symptoms and it looks like this one does too. Sam leaves to
call infection control and they need prophylaxis for all the staff since they
were exposed. The mother and father are there and they ask Kerry about when
they can see their daughter but they can’t until she is moved into the ICU.
They want to know how their daughter got it but Kerry tells them that Public
Health will have to figure that out. The parents and their other children need
to be treated. Frank says that he better not get it because he can’t even
pronounce it. Abby is worried about taking the antidote because she isn’t sure
that its safe for the baby.
Richard Elliot comes into the ER needing a blood
transfusion because he has M.D.S. Frank gets on the intercom "Will the owner
of the ginormous SUV parked outside please move said vehicle, your blocking
the ambulance bay, you will be towed." Mr. Elliot tries to leave but Morris
advises him not to and he stays for the transfusion.
Luka
offers to get Abby a hot chocolate because it would make her feel better but
Abby doesn’t want a hot chocolate and she doesn’t want to feel better, she
just wants to worry about the baby and wants Luka to worry too. Luka asks her
how long he should worry and she tells him for about 10 or 20 minutes, so they
both get a hot chocolate. Ray is working on cutting the mans rings off, when
he finishes he goes up to the desk and sees a pizza. Frank says its from Luka,
his way of saying sorry I exposed you to a deadly bacteria. Neela comes down
and says that jogger is fine but everyone in surgery has to take Zithro
because of her. She asks why no one has eaten her cookies so she offers it to
Morris who takes one, behind Neela’s back Frank shakes his head and Morris
tells her he will eat it after lunch. Frank explains that the cookies will
give you a 3 day bellyache and he sticks a biohazard sticker on the container.
Ray asks Neela when she’s coming home because he is having another girl friend
over.
Abby sees Kerry in Trauma 2 trying to pick something up so
Abby walks in. "Looks like fun can anybody play" Kerry explains that she’s
practicing because she gave up on the idea of a new hip since its not a good
time to be off her feet with the ER and Henry. Abby tells Kerry that Henry is
only going to get more active, that its never a good time. Luka comes in with
a boy who got punched by another basketball fan in a bar fight, his friends
are in the hall fighting Pratt tells them its not a playground and goes into
the trauma room. They intubate the bar fight guy and are about to bring him up
to C.T. when he goes into an abnormal rhythm, they shock him and then bring
him upstairs. Kerry and Abby are in the lounge, Kerry’s upset about giving up
her crutch because that’s who she is.
Sam
is with Mr. Elliot when Chuny brings Alex in, he got beaten up and his cell
phone was stolen. Pratt finds Luka and tells him about when he switched his
blood with his friends when his friend was drunk. Morris asks Abby what she
thinks they’re talking about because it looks serious, Abby tells him that
they are talking about him, it takes a while for Morris to realize it’s a
joke. Neela is about to leave and she asks for her cookies, Frank gives them
to her, Ray and Morris come over to tell her that her cookies are the worst in
the history of baking, she takes them and leaves. Kerry is going to do a
shoulder reduction but Ray takes it instead since it would be painful for her
to do so Kerry asks Frank to get Dr. Kline on the phone. Luka tells Pratt the
consequences of his actions, to go on a 5 day vacation starting now, to not
enjoy it, to not have fun, and to think about what it means to be a doctor. Up
stairs, Kerry hears the risks of anesthesia. Sam offers Mr. Elliot a ride home
and he offers her a job as his home care nurse. At the Spouse Club Neela tries
to explain that she supports her husband but she doesn’t support the war, this
seems to shock everyone else who is there. Abby goes upstairs to visit Kerry
before her surgery. She asks Abby to be Henry’s legal guardian if something
happens to her, that its hard for her to be alone but she felt she could
always depend on Abby, so Abby signs the papers. Neela comes home to find Ray
got stood up by his date and Neela wonders if she can even kick herself out of
the club because she just did. Kerry goes into surgery and has to count down
from one hundred. 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95...
Reviewed by
Deidre on April 08, 2006
NBC Review
OUT ON A LIMB- ARMAND ASSANTE ("Judge Dredd") GUEST STARS--
Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) contemplates hip replacement surgery after she finds
it hard to do her labor intensive job. Meanwhile, Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic)
tries to ease Abby's (Maura Tierney) fears about raising a child together.
Neela (Parminder Nagra) decides to attend a support group for military spouses
but when she offers her opinions on the war, the meeting turns into a debate.
After Sam (Linda Cardellini) treats a fainting victim, named Richard Elliot,
(Armand Assante) she finds herself with an intriguing job offer. Mehki Phifer,
Shane West and Scott Grimes star. TV-14
TV Guide Review
March 16, 2006:
Out on a Limb:
Dr. Weaver reluctantly considers having
hip-replacement surgery after she realizes she
can no longer function properly in the ER.
Meanwhile, Sam receives an interesting job offer
from a charming patient (Armand Assante); and
two teens arrive at the hospital with a possible
infectious disease.
Armand Assante - Richard Elliott
