Today, I am Dr. Meredith Grey

Awww.

“If there’s a crisis, you don’t freeze, you move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward. Because you’ve seen worse. You’ve survived worse, and you know we’ll survive too. You say you’re all dark and twisty. It’s not a flaw, it’s a strength. It makes you who you are.”— Derek Shepherd (McDreamy)

Since I dressed up as Dr. Meredith Grey today, does that mean I get a McDreamy too?  No?  Darn it.

I didn’t start watching Grey’s Anatomy when it first aired.  It took a while.  I remember watching an episode of it at my grandparents’ house on Camano Island.  It was the Christina-Ricci-as-the-paramedic-with-her hand-in-somebody-squeezing-a-bomb episode.  Yes, I know the episodes all have titles.  I just wanted to make sure you get the plot of this particular one.  The title, by the way, is, “It’s the End of the World.”  Ooooh, and the lives of everyone in the OR were threatened!  If the paramedic let go, the bomb would go off, instantly killing everyone in the vicinity.  She ends up getting scared and runs out of the OR, and the very instant she lets go, Meredith grabs the bomb.  She was that quick.

Yep.  Edge-of-your-seat drama.

After that, of course, I got the dvds from season one from Netflix and watched it from the beginning.  I absolutely loved it!  My sister got sucked into it as well.  Haha.  It quickly became one of my favorite shows.  I started saying, “Seriously” a lot.  Seriously?  Seriously.  Seriously.  The show is in its eighth season now.  In the middle of this past summer, I started thinking about this show and quickly came to the decision that a) I wanted a pair of hospital scrubs and b) I wanted to be Dr. Meredith Grey for Halloween.  So I got some and I am.  With glasses.  Nothing I can do about the glasses.

Channeling Dr. Meredith Grey:  I am now a hardcore blogger – I  have completed the Ultimate Blog Challenge!  Oh, yeah.  I cannot be a hardcore surgeon but I CAN be a hardcore writer.  And everyday, from now on, I will be.

Dr. Cristina Yang (Meredith’s best friend) quote

Sunshine

If I were a television producer, I would be so in the public’s face with childhood cancer awareness. My show would be fictional (because I cannot STAND reality television), and I would call it “Sunshine.” It would revolve around 7 families battling various forms of cancer in the same town, same hospital. Most likely it would be a prime time drama like Grey’s Anatomy, but instead of focusing on the doctors, it will portray the families. And at the end of every single episode, there would be a real child who has battled cancer or is battling cancer. And you can bet your bottom dollar that neuroblastoma is going to be one of them.

The more I think about this, the more I like it. I’d have to write it as a novel first, try to get people interested and more aware of this monster. Novels get television deals all the time. And maybe I’d just be a co-producer instead of the head producer, and maybe I could write for the show too, or co-write. The pilot will start with day one, the diagnoses. Nothing will be held back. It will be bold and it will be sad and it will be in-your-face.

I would call it “Sunshine” for various reasons. There’s nothing brighter than the sun. Nothing brighter than hope. My mom told me she used to sing me “You Are My Sunshine” when I was sick. Also, when the sun rises, there is a vast amount of light spilling to earth, chasing the darkness away. Children with cancer are battling a darkness, and it is up to us to help them fight.

Each show would be dedicated to a Warrior or an Angel, complete with pictures. If that won’t get the attention and awareness that childhood cancer so deserves, I don’t know what will.