Watching House

We’re at the ballet! How…cultured of House! Well, House isn’t there, but a bunch of dancers are apparently rehearsing. The main male dancer seems to be having a problem, saying it’s too fast and the producers say that his back isn’t 100%. The main female ballerina is apparently with the main male dancer and they talk a bit during the dance – he lifts her up in the air and it goes fine…until he screams in pain and they both fall to the stage. She can’t breathe and is gasping for breath as they yell to “call a doctor”.

In House’s apartment Amber is playing the ukulele while House sits on the couch eating cereal. She tells House that he’s not completely rational. There’s a knock on the door and it’s Foreman – they have a case and he tells House that Cuddy’s going to fire him if he doesn’t get into work. Amber convinces him to go into work.

The ducklings and House are diagnosing the POtW – she can’t breathe well even on room oxygen. He’s ignoring Amber, who is constantly telling him that the dancer is dehydrated. He finally listens after she pushes her way around and they decide to go buff up the patient and to give her antibiotics. Amber raises her hand for a high five.

Amber: We’re like Magic and Kareem!

The rest is below the cut!

House, however, walks past her. Apparently he’s trying to ignore her.

Wilson’s in his office telling a patient he has kidney cancer and House busts in. He tells Wilson that he’s hallucinating and Wilson walks into the hallway with House. House asks Wilson to step in during his differentials and that he thinks he has sleep apnea. He tells Wilson that he’s hallucinating and seeing Kutner. Wilson says he’ll help House.

Cameron and Chase are having dinner in their apartment and Cameron bursts out and says that she has her dead husbands sperm – that they’d frozen some before he passed away. It’s her way of telling Chase that she wants some of his sperm too, I believe.

Wilson and House are in the sleep lab and House is all set up to be monitored for sleep apnea, even though Amber says that they both know he doesn’t have sleep apnea. The next morning he goes to Wilson and, apparently, nothing has changed even though he slept good.

Foreman tells House that the patient is not responding to antibiotics and he comes up with a test that is something like waterboarding (still have no idea what the actual test is). He looks to Wilson to see if the idea is one he’d usually have, and Wilson gives him the go ahead. Once Foreman leaves he hands Wilson a list of things that he thinks he may have – at the top of the list:

Sleep Apnea
Infection
Trauma
M.S.
Schizophrenia
Pills

They decide to use antibiotics to see if he’s got an infection and Wilson is going to inject him.

Taub and Foreman are with the patient – they’re basically giving her a trach and are injecting water into her lungs – WOW! Definitely a radical house-like treatment! Taub slips and a handful of her skin comes off in his hands.

After commercial the patient is in a clean room and a gloved and gowned Taub is placing on artificial skin, but her normal skin is falling off faster than they can replace it. She’s lost 80% of her skin. House tells them that maybe the antibiotics caused a reaction and wants swabs of her old skin to confirm the reaction. Toxic epidermal necrosis

He goes to find Wilson and tells him about the ballerina. He tells Wilson that he feels guilty, and that maybe it points to the limbic part of his brain. That he has to apologize – if he feels better it means nothing and it was an emotion, if he doesn’t, his limbic brain is shot.

House goes into the patient’s room and apologizes to them for causing her pain. Apparently, afterwards, he feels nothing. He runs into Foreman in the hallway.

Foreman: Why were you talking to the patient?
House: I think skinless women are hot.

House has an idea as to how to check her liver and before he tells Foreman to do it he checks with Wilson – Foreman notices but goes off anyway. House says that his problem has to be MS, and apparently they’re off to do a spinal tap.

Chase and Foreman are doing the procedure to check the patient’s liver and Chase clarifies that Cameron wants Chase to allow her to hang onto her husband’s sperm. Foreman tells him to let her keep the sperm, because if he doesn’t, and they break up, he’s the one who killed her kids. The patient suddenly starts to crash.

The liver biopsy was negative but they’re wondering what happened with the heart. And Foreman is wondering why Wilson is still there and figures that House doesn’t trust himself. He tells Wilson to get out. Amber puts her arm on the table and has a scalpel. She says that it’s not MS, which leaves mental illness and detox – and with mental illness he wouldn’t be able to practice medicine and neither would he if he had to detox and have a great deal of pain. She then stabs the scalpel into her arm and starts to cut herself.

House tells them, as for the patient, to stop the patient’s heart to MRI her. It’s dangerous, as they need 4 minutes to MRI and after 3 minutes brain damage is possible.

House goes into the hallway and tells Wilson what they’re doing, and how he thinks it was “her” idea, and how the antibiotics were “her” idea. The slip leads him to tell Wilson that it’s Amber that he’s seeing, not Kutner.

Wilson: Your subconscious picked my dead girlfriend?
House: Yeah, the irrational part of my brain works like the rational part of yours.

He asks Wilson if he’s being too radical for the patient’s treatment, and Wilson says it’s on the upper end of his radical-ness, but that it’s not too bad for a House treatment. The LP was negative for MS and he says that the vicodin levels are way too high. That the vicodin could cause:

Wilson: Heart attack, stroke, death, or worse.
House: Worse? Double death?

Wilson says he’ll make some calls to get House into rehab.

The patient is getting read to go into the MRI and Chase is there to make her dead. He shocks her and she goes into the machine with no heartbeat.

House calls Wilson and says that insulin shock could work to help him. He says that he doesn’t think that the pills are causing a problem because he’s been taking vicodin for years and hasn’t ever had a reaction like this – he has no symptoms of overdose. So he wants to go into insulin shock.

Wilson: House, I’ll be up there in five minutes and we can discuss this. (he’s in the cafeteria)
House: Actually, if you can be up here in two, that’d be helpful.
Wilson: Why?
House: Because I’m about to put myself into insulin shock.

Wilson goes running.

The ducklings are checking the patient’s heart and they can’t find anything wrong until shortly after three minutes and they find a shadow in her heart. Chase pulls her out before they get a good shot of it and starts to restart her heart.

House puts himself into insulin shock and Amber is on the floor crying a bit. House thinks she’s only crying because she knows it’s going to work. House starts convulsing and falls to the floor as Wilson rushes in.

House is laid up on a stretcher and Wilson is watching over him. He wakes up and Wilson is pissed. House looks around for Amber but can’t find her. As House goes to leave his beeper goes off. They’re arguing about the shadow that they saw and Chase is fighting about how he tried to save her life.

House: Any brain damage?
Thirteen: All signs are fine.
House: Looks like you had more time.

House is watching the couple and says that the boyfriend is too devoted, and that gonorrhea fits, that it went to her heart and stuck in her heart, which would make it look like a shadow. He tells them to check the partner.

Mmmmbop goes off on House’s ringtone and Foreman says that the guy does have gonorrhea but that he says he didn’t have it before – that she’d given it to him. He’s stopped hanging out in her room and House deduces that he’d seen guilt in the guy, and that he was wrong – he’d been lucky, not right. He turns and looks and there’s Amber, singing on the stage of the restaurant he’s in. He calls Wilson to come get him.

(I FIGURED IT OUT! He’s seeing Amber because he’s lost faith in his abilities – he’s questioning himself and that’s why he’s seeing her. Although why he chose HER, I have no idea, but that’s why he’s seeing her. I think…)

In the car, Wilson says that he knows a nice detox facility in Philadelphia. House says “thanks”. In the back seat, Amber is smiling. House is packing and Wilson answers the phone. Foreman says that the patient has gone septic and that they can’t remove the spot on her heart because she’s septic. Wilson tells Foreman that House is off the case and hangs up the phone.

House wonders why he doesn’t feel scared. Amber tells him that they’ve always known how to cheat in rehab and House tells Wilson that it won’t work. He walks out of his apartment.

The ducklings are watching over the girl and are trying to diagnose her. They decide to use dopamine to help cure her, even though they know her heart can’t take dopamine.

In Cuddy’s office, House walks in. He tells her that he quits. She obviously doesn’t believe him. She starts to walk off and House tells her that he’s hallucinating. He tells her that he’ll cheat if he goes to detox, but that Cuddy could help him to detox.

House: I need you.

She says that she’ll call her babysitter. (she was late to head home).

They’re doing the patient’s surgery and have removed the abscess. They find, however, that her fingers and toes are turning black.

In House’s apartment he’s throwing up and Cuddy is there. He goes for his stash and it’s gone. Cuddy’s removed it all. He tells Cuddy that there’s more in his shoes in the closet, even though he’s shaking and in tons of pain. Cuddy grabs his hand and sits with him.

The patient is on the table and is waking up. Chase tells her that the dopamine caused the blood vessels on her heart and feet to shut down and they’ve died. They need to amputate her hands and feet. She says no.

The ducklings are trying to figure out how to get her better.

Chase: Technically if she dies, it’s because House had some personal crap to work through and we weren’t smart enough to get the answer.

They get back to diagnosing.

House is in the bathroom throwing up – he looks on the floor and sees a pill that has fallen on the floor. Amber calls him pathetic. House crawls across the bathroom for the pill.

Amber: Now this is interesting. If you take the pill, you don’t deserve her. If you secretly take the pill, you don’t deserve anyone.

House reaches for it but Cuddy runs in and grabs it, throwing it into the toilet and flushing it.

The patient is under once again and Taub is trying something strange to try to get her hands back – phasodialators (not quite sure I got that right) apparently it might be wrking.

House is laying on his couch and he asks Cuddy to stop breathing. House tells Cuddy that she’s only there because he’s the hospitals biggest asset. She says that she hasn’t lied to him in 20 years. Her lie was that she wasn’t in his endocrinology class – she audited it – because 20 years ago she thought he was an “interesting lunatic even then.”

Cuddy: I’m not here protecting hospital property.
House: We’re alone.
Cuddy: We’ve been alone all night.
House: No, I mean Amber – she’s gone.

The patient lifts her hand up and she can move it. Taub’s idea worked. She’s got her hands and feet back.

Chase is in his living room and Cameron walks in. He tells her that he can’t do it. That she has doubts and he has none. She says that she doesn’t know, and he says that he’ll wait until she does.

Cameron: I can’t know. No one knows.
Chase. I do.

In House’s apartment he’s dressed and ready for work and walking Cuddy to the door.

Cuddy: You want to kiss me, don’t you?
House: I always want to kiss you.

She gives him a little kiss – and then he backs her up to the wall and really lays one on her – yes! House and Cuddy have sex!