Grey's Episode 3

In today’s episode, Meredith’s mom comes to a completely lucid state after five years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and not remembering anything. The last thing she remembered was Meredith going away to Europe and the only thing she wanted to know was whether or not Meredith had followed in her footsteps and became a surgeon. The whole episode Meredith was trying to avoid her mother, even though everyone was telling her talk to her mother because most people aren’t given that kind of opportunity. Despite everyone’s advice, she decided to stay away from her mother, and at first I didn’t understand why. If I had the chance to speak to my mother after five years, I would jump at the opportunity. When she finally built up the courage to talk to her, her mother yelled at her and criticized her for not being the best. Then I understood why she didn’t want to talk to her, because she knew everything she accomplished in the past five years would not be good enough for her mother. I think that many parents have this standard that they expect their children to meet, and no matter what they do it’s never enough. It’s sad, because the kids beat themselves up about it and end up resenting their parents. I’m not saying that all parents are like this, in fact most aren’t. I think the best thing a parent can do is to encourage and support their kids in everything that they do. In the end, I think that Meredith’s mom realized that she made a mistake in yelling at her. Unfortunately, she went back into her state of Alzheimer’s before she could tell Meredith that. As for last week’s cliffhanger, George and Callie eloped in Vegas and Christina accepted Burke’s proposal.