Grey's Anatomy

Previously on "Grey's Anatomy"...

April: Jackson. He likes you.

He has feelings for you. You should just tell him.

You want to go have some overly tired sex?

I just got fired.

Owen: Two soldiers came to the house today.

They said they found Megan. They said that she's alive.

Meredith: Remember the dream where they come back to us?

- Megan's alive? - Megan's alive.

If this were Derek, I would already be gone.

Meredith: A painful irony for doctors

is that we often have to make you sicker

in order to heal you.

Megan?

Megan.

Who... Who are you?

Sorry. I had to do it.

Will you unstrap me from this thing

so I can hug your ridiculously pale body?

Yeah.

Come here.

If a bone has healed unevenly, we have to rebreak it.

If a scar is too thick,

we have to scrape it off and create a new wound.

We break you down to rebuild you.

Megan: I was not kept in that hole.

I was tossed in the hole when the bombing started.

They were trying to protect me.

Trauma surgeons aren't easy to come by in Iraq.

- So all these years, you... - I was treated really well.

They'd just, you know, kill me if I left.

Your wife is really pretty.

I'm really happy to meet you.

Me too.

Hey, stranger.

I'm so sorry.

Shh. Babe, it's okay. It's okay. I'm okay.

I'm...

Okay, ow. You're gonna have to...

Ow.

- What hurts? - What's wrong?

There was a bombing six months ago.

I... took some shrapnel.

There were post-op complications.

It didn't heal so well.

Okay. Um, all right, everyone! Listen up, please!

Uh, first, I want to thank you all

for keeping your heads during the events of last night.

Thanks to you, there were very minimal injuries,

and the firefighters were able to contain the blaze quickly.

There was some damage, however, that will need to be repaired.

Uh, the neuro ICU, the cath lab, and pulmonary clinic...

She fired Eliza.

Oh, yeah. I heard.

Just give her some room. Getting fired is humiliating.

How much room?

Like, hours or days?

And endoscopy suites...

I've never been fired.

These stations will be off-limits to pedestrian foot traffic.

Stephanie's gone.

She was airlifted to a burn center in Texas.

So until further notice,

ORs 3 through 6 are nonfunctional.

Hunt, your sister's here?

Yeah, Riggs is taking her to CT.

Uh, Riggs and I, we're gonna need to take some leave.

Understood. I'll update Bailey.

Uh, your sister will be our first priority

as soon as we're done here. Okay. Thanks.

To recap, we are to avoid ORs 3 through 6

and the entire neuro wing, as they are unstable.

And also avoid fourth-floor nurses station

until further notice.

Hey.

- Hey. - You're working?

Yeah, I'm gonna work.

How's Megan?

Uh, she's alive.

And... well, not quite well,

but she's funny and sharp and very much alive,

which is, you know, energizing.

I mean, this miracle happened, and it makes me aware

that I have the ability to make that miracle happen

for someone else's family, so... yeah.

I'm gonna work.

You don't think you should be with Owen today?

You know what... I'm super-good in a crisis,

but the crisis is over.

And you've been here for how long?

Couple years now.

And have you met anyone...

you know, significant?

Hey.

Oh, h-hang one sec, Meg.

- Hey. - Hey.

How is she doing?

Oh, she's, um, got a frozen abdomen, but...

You know, all things considered, she's pretty okay.

That's great.

And how are you?

Yeah, all things considered, pretty okay.

You?

Same.

Hey, sorry, Meg. Where were we?

I was asking if you met anyone,

and you were buying time to come up with an acceptable answer.

I wasn't buying time. Liar.

Look. Uh...

I-I did meet someone.

And?

And... she's not you.

Smooth.

Right?

The southwest wing of the second floor has been cleared,

so all of the patients in beds 3 through 10

can be transported back upstairs, okay?

- DeLuca, what do you got? - Beau Martinez, 14 years old.

Presents with intense jaw pain

and recurrent left-sided headaches.

Beau, can you follow my finger?

Good.

- When did the pain start? - A few months ago.

They took these X-rays last month. They saw nothing.

They gave him pain pills that don't work,

and now they won't give him any more 'cause...

They treat him like he's a drug addict or something.

That's not my kid.

He can't even play baseball anymore.

He says it's a stabbing pain in the jaw and mastoid area.

Thought maybe we should get

a head, cervical, maxillofacial CT.

Agreed.

Beau, I've got you.

I know this pain is real, and I am not gonna rest

until we find out what it is and how to fix it.

You have my word. You both do.

Okay.

Is this Megan Hunt?

Yeah.

Nastiest abdominal wound I've ever seen.

Massive hernia, giant fistula.

The abdominal layers have scarred and fused to each other.

Her small bowel and colon are just...

One big blob.

And there's not enough healthy skin

to properly close the wound.

I think we just optimize her nutrition,

vac the wound, and wait.

I mean, it'll close eventually.

She wants us to reverse the colostomy.

I can't see a way to make that happen.

Well, I can.

And you taught it to me.

So, I would like to reapproximate the abdominal wall

a little bit at a time.

Put in tissue expanders to stretch the skin

and then pull the abdomen back together slowly.

And then we'll go back in,

take down the fistula, reverse the colostomy,

and I'll close with a component separation surgery.

Which means what?

Which means she's my new favorite person.

Who are you? I'm Meredith Grey.

Thank you for your service, Dr. Hunt.

Well, I admit I've been out of the O.R. for a while,

but this sounds like a risky surgery.

Bailey: It most definitely is.

And there's no guarantee that it'll work.

Yeah, which is why Dr. Bailey and I

would recommend a more conservative approach.

Thank you, but I just came back from being presumed dead.

I'm not about to play it safe.

Also, it's really hard

to live with an open abdominal wound in Iraq.

What do you mean, "in Iraq"?

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to tell you this.

As soon as I'm well, I have to go back to Iraq.

My child is there.

His name is Farouk. His parents were Syrian insurgent fighters.

They both died in combat.

I took him in when he was 4. He's 10 now.

I'm the only parent he has,

and he is the main reason that I stayed sane all these years.

I'm a grandmother?

And you couldn't bring him with you?

You're a national hero.

Tell that to the U.S. immigration laws.

If your surgery works, I'll have a functioning bowel?

That's the plan.

Then that's what we're doing.

Meredith?

I'm sorry... I would never have asked you

to consult on Megan's case.

Oh, you didn't ask me.

Well, is you working on Megan the best idea?