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I don't know whether anyone else saw er on Monday night - it was one of the best episodes I've seen of er, second only to the one charting Dr Greene's last days. It featured Cynthia Nixon (Miranda in Sex And The City) as the main character as a mother with a hectic lifestyle and three kids who suffered a stroke. The story was done masterfully, with Cythia Nixon doing a voiceover of what she is thinking (and what she thinks she is saying) although it quickly becomes apparent that she cannot communicate despite being totally lucid. It was very, very scary, very emotional and for a very difficult subject matter was done very well. I cannot imagine how frightening it must be to be placed in this kind of situation - I have been in similar situations when I have been badly injured and have had difficulty communicating where I was in pain (in the back of an ambulance barely conscious is one occasion that comes to mind and what I can remember of that was scary enough) but to be totally lucid and unable to communicate must be terrifying.
 
I was once buried alive after going into a catatonic trance Dom. The coffin had one of those small glass panels near the head and, when they were lowering me into the ground, I could see them all weeping. By then I could move my eyes but nobody noticed. A terrifying ordeal. I was down there for 8 hours before the grave robbers came.
 
Oh no. Sorry. I just remembered that was a film I seen called Premature Burial.
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I hadn't seen ER for many years but I happened to be around when this episode was on and got dragged into it by the dramatic device of the thoughts being heard in voice-over. It really was very well done and the technique demonstrated to remove the clot that caused the stroke is apparently very new.
 
It was an excellent ER. I had been feeling the series wasn't quite as good this time around and this was definitely the best episode I've seen for a long time. Now roll on Desperate Housewives tonight!
 
".... a hectic lifestyle and three kids who suffered a stroke..." - did Merlin take all the commas with him, too? :o
 
ER!

is that a send up of Casualty?


I prefer King of Queens,the Female lead has left a lasting impression me.
 
ER knocks our pathetic Casualty and Holby City into a cocked hat - long since gave up watching Casualty after the first two seasons and have never bothered with HC.

ER remains pretty compulsive viewing imo but I did wonder when I watched it last night (recorded it) whether she really would have made such a miraculous recovery. The other weakness was when the were deciding whether or not to do the new surgery - as she could move her left hand, why didn't they just ask her!!???
 
Hadn't watched it in ages but seeing that girl's burns having stepped on a land mind really got to me. I came on here after that, i know it was only a TV show but that really got to me, i'd hate to have that happen to me ever.

Martin
 
We've got 24 reinforcing the arabs as the new enemy (how accurate was that power of nightmares programme) and now ER giving us their version of the young arab boy whose arms we blew off and gave a Beckham shirt as compensation.
 
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