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oncetherewasaway	Sep 20 2008, 12:42 PM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	SIDES & SUMMARIES Lauren - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - TRAUMA ONE – NIGHT Dr. Harris enters, finds Lauren Hammer and her husband Seth (30's). Laurens’s doubled over but manages to talk through the pain. Dr. Harris: Mrs. Hammer, what seems to be the problem? Laren: I have this pain in my stomach and I can’t even keep water down, it all goes right through me. And I’m tired, not like normal tired, like deep bon level tired --- Seth: Just tell him your theory, Lauren. She has a theory. Lauren: I’m right here, I can speak. Seth: She thinks she has stomach cancer because the Internet told her so..... she’s crazy. Lauren: I’m not crazy! – I’m in pain. HORRIBLE pain. He’s not inside my body. He’s not feeling what I’m feeling. Seth: I have a theory, too, by the way. Crazy disease. It’s called diarrhea. Lauren: Seth. Seth: Fine. Shutting up. Dr. Harris examines her. Dr. Harris: Does this hurt? Lauren: No. Dr. Harris: It’s not your appendix. Lauren: That’s good right? Dr. Harris: Very good. Off Lauren still in pain. __________________ Lauren - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - LAUREN’S ROOM – NIGHT Seth walk in. Dr. Harris is standing by Lauren’s bed. Dr. Harris: She wants to tell you something. Lauren looks at him. This is hard. Lauren: I believe that you believe I’m crazy. Seth: Lauren Lauren: And I might be. Seth looks at her, and it’s kind of heartbreaking ..... Lauren: I read on the Internet that taking large amounts of antibiotics, unnecessary antibiotics, could make you sick. And I thought if I got sick, you’d come home from work earlier, pay more attention to me, take care of me, want to be with me ... Ever since you took this new job, you’ve disappeared. We might as well be living on separate continents. I NEVER SEE YOU. And then I read this article and got the idea ... And I thought maybe it ... The, one I started, I couldn’t stop ... I kept thinking that maybe things would go back to the way they used to be. And you keep telling me that things haven’t changed. I just don’t know how you don’t see it.... Off Seth, taking her in... __________________ Seth – Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - TRAUMA ONE – NIGHT Dr. Harris enters, finds Lauren Hammer and her husband Seth (30's). Laurens’s doubled over but manages to talk through the pain. Dr. Harris: Mrs. Hammer, what seems to be the problem? Laren: I have this pain in my stomach and I can’t even keep water down, it all goes right through me. And I’m tired, not like normal tired, like deep bon level tired --- Seth: Just tell him your theory, Lauren. She has a theory. Lauren: I’m right here, I can speak. Seth: She thinks she has stomach cancer because the Internet told her so..... she’s crazy. Lauren: I’m not crazy! – I’m in pain. HORRIBLE pain. He’s not inside my body. He’s not feeling what I’m feeling. Seth: I have a theory, too, by the way. Crazy disease. It’s called diarrhea. Lauren: Seth. Seth: Fine. Shutting up. Dr. Harris examines her. Dr. Harris: Does this hurt? Lauren: No. Dr. Harris: It’s not your appendix. __________________ Seth - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - LAUREN’S ROOM – NIGHT Dr. Harris speaks to Lauren and Seth. Lauren looks guilty. Lauren: So I’ve been on antibiotics..... Seth: Right. For that staph infection you got last month? On your face? You wouldn’t stop talking about that thing... Lauren: That was actually a pimple... Seth: Why did your doctor give you a prescription for a pimple? Lauren: I actually ordered them online. Seth: What - - Lauren: To make myself sick. Seth: Oh my God! Lauren: Because you wouldn’t give me the time of day --- Seth: That is such a load of -- Lauren: Oh, so coming home at 2 AM every night is normal? Not calling to say you’ll miss dinner is considerate? Seth: No, I think lying to your husband and ingesting pill to give yourself a stomach ache is normal. Dr. Harris: Well, your blood count now indicates you’ve developed an infection. And it doesn’t seem to be going away on its own. Lauren: How do I treat it? Dr. Harris: We don’t know where exactly the infection lies. We’ll need to perform a colonoscopy procedure first to determine the specific course of treatment. Lauren: Okay. Dr. Harris: We’ll need to sedate you in order to insert the scope, and you’re going to want someone her with you when you wake up. Lauren looks at Seth. Beat. Seth: Admit it. Lauren: Admit what? Seth: YOU’RE CRAZY! Off Lauren, overwhelmed, as Seth leaves the room... __________________ Arthur - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - TRAUMA TWO – NIGHT Dr. Smith and Dr. Harris are with a now conscious Arthur. Dr. Harris examines his arm. Ivy, looking very worried, sits by her dad’s bedside. Arthur: I don’t understand what happened? Dr. Harris: Your daughter found you have a seizure in your bedroom. When you started convulsing, you fell out of your bed, hurting your arm. We’d like to run a CT to test for internal bleeding and head trauma. Arthur: I had a seizure? But I haven’t had one of those in months? Dr. Harris: You’ve had them before? Arthur: It started a couple of years ago, after my wife died. It only happened a few times, but it still scared me enough that I went to a clinic. They never found anything, so the thought it was stress induced — gave me some Dilantin. Dr. Harris: How’s it been working? Arthur: (joking) I’m raising a teenager, so ... stress comes with the job. But, I haven’t had any more seizures. Dr. Harris: And you took your Dilantin tonight? Arthur: I guess I must have forgotten. Arthur takes his daughter’s hand. Arthur: Honey, I’m so sorry. You must have been so scared. Ivy: I’m okay. I’m fine. I’m just worried about you. __________________ Arthur - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - ARTHUR’S ROOM– NIGHT Dr. Smith and Dr. Harris give Arthur his test results. Ivy sits in chair by his bedside. Dr. Smith: The EEG revealed that you’re suffering from a condition call frontal lobe epilepsy. The good news is we can fix it. Arthur: That’s a relief. Dr. Smith: (showing the EGG) By resecting this small area of your brain, we can make sure you never have another incident like the one you had tonight. Arthur: Is this frontal lobe thing going to get worse? Dr. Smith: If untreated – Arthur: I’ll just keep taking my meds. I have a kid, I don’t want anyone cutting into my brain.... Dr. Smith: Mr. Soltanoff, these episodes — Arthur: I forgot my Dilantin tonight, I just won’t forget – Ivy: You didn’t forget. All the eyes in the room turn to Ivy who speaks with the full exhaustion of her night, her life in her voice, everything she’s been keeping in finally comes out. Ivy: You took it when I was brushing my teeth like you always do, and then you put me to bed like you always do, and then I woke up to the sound of you falling out of your bed, convulsing on the floor.... Arthur: Ivy — Ivy: I must have fallen asleep tonight. I try to stay awake because I’m scared you’re going to start seizing and hurt yourself ... like tonight ... I must have fallen asleep... Arthur: Honey, why didn’t you tell me? Ivy: You said these episodes were caused by stress and I’m your stress, you have to take care of me by yourself and ... you do such a good job all day, I thought the least I could do was take care of you at night. Dr. Smith bends down, coming face to face with Ivy. Dr. Smith: But we’re saying it’s the epilepsy. Not the stress. The epilepsy. You understand what I’m telling you? Ivy: This wasn’t my fault. And Ivy cries and cries. Tears of relief down her face. Ivy - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - ARTHUR’S ROOM– NIGHT Dr. Smith finds Ivy sitting on a chair next to her dad’s bed, watching TV with the blank stare of someone who is truly exhausted but can’t sleep. Dr. Smith: Your dad around? I need to run a couple of tests. Ivy: He still hasn’t come back from getting X-Rays. Dr. Smith: I’ll come back. Dr. Smith starts to leave. Ivy: How did my dad’s head scan turn out? Dr. Smith: The Neurosurgeon will com down and explain it to you .... You know you can snag the other bed. Middle of the night, I don’t think you dad will get a roommate. Ivy: It’s okay. I’m not tired. She holds the remote to change the channel. Dr. Smith notices her hand is shaking. She looks exhausted, deeply, exhausted. Dr. Smith: Residents who work 100 hours a week look more well rested than you. When’s the last time you slept? She looks at him, with a haunted look — Dr. Smith: Seriously, kid, you should get some rest. But she goes back to the TV with a yawn and a blank stare .... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by oncetherewasaway, Oct 22 2008, 12:20 PM.


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