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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know...they were definitely unlikable and unrealistic but I didn't hate the episode. It was called the waiting room and it seems to signal a shift in all their lives as they wait.

Miguel may be about to find his place in the family (being the one who had the phone number and tried to play dad). [b]Rebecca is clearly physically heading in a bad direction.[/b] Kevin and  Kevin/Zoe is at a crossroads, as are Randall and crew. And life or death for baby Jack and them.

They're a waiting for setting wonderful or something horrible, and we are waiting along with them. 4 more episodes to get this all wrapped up, and this one was just setting the scene for what's next and how it all comes together.[/quote]

Re:  Rebecca, I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed this. [b] At first I thought they were setting up clues that she might be starting to experience early-onset [i]Alzheimer's or dementi[/i]a, [/b]with her random musings about the waiting room.  But then she related all of that back to being in the waiting room with Jack the night he died.  I don't know though, it kind of seemed like she was very frail and perhaps not in great health.[/quote]

I thought this too [/quote]

It wouldn't be very early onset. She's 68 or 69 at this point. She got pregnant at 30 and the triplets are 38 + now.[/quote]

That popped into my mind because her memories were oddly precise and detailed. [/quote]

Well no, small but vivid details are part and parcel of traumatic memories.

But it was perplexing for another reason, because it sounded like she drove him to the ER "for his burns" and then they hung around waiting in the ER waiting room forever. I may have misheard it.

I don't quite get the "frailty" business. This woman has had trauma in her life: losing one of her babies, hiding her relationship with Randall's father, the years when Jack was an alcoholic, the horrific way she lost him, her conflicted relationship with Kate, learning about her husband's hidden brother, the obvious risks with the baby due to Kate's obesity, now the critical medical situation. I can totally see her sitting there with this accumulation of life pain and being terrified what might happen to her daughter and granddaughter.

My DH died 15 years ago and was ill for a long time before that. There are many random details I remember from his last hospitalization (almost 300 miles from home). I took pics of the ICU where he died and when they got developed I immediately stashed them away because they were so upsetting, didn't look at them for 10 years and they still hit me in the gut, as to other bits and pieces of his illness. Going into the local hospital where he had many stays, whether to visit or for my own medical stuff, was also hard for years until they did major remodeling so it was less familiar.

Remembering stuff like that in certain situations is NOT a sign of dementia!

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I think you're misunderstanding.  I'm the PP who brought it up first (bolded).  I said it *seemed* like they might be setting up a storyline for Rebecca that would explore possible dementia - but THEN she related it all back to her time in the hospital with Jack.  In other words, it was clear that she wasn't suffering from dementia after all.  It just seemed like it at first because she was making (what seemed to be) random musings about unrelated things.  But they turned out to be related after all.[/quote]

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