Saturday, Poetry Month, and A PREDICTION

[nightdog_barks]

Warm, partly cloudy, and HUMID AGAIN. GRRAR. No rain, though, so I need to water everything on the deck (including the tomatoes, which so far are doing fabulously).

Tomorrow is April 1st, and we all know what that means. IT'S NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! And just like in years past (since 2008, as a matter of fact), I'll be celebrating by posting a poem a day (except on weekends). As always, they'll be in their own post, behind a cut, so folks who would prefer not to read can easily scroll past. Comment if you feel like it, don't if you don't. It's just an opportunity to post something a little bit different. :-)

So. I've been reading the latest round of spoilers and press releases, and I was talking with some friends this morning, and I was STRUCK WITH AN EPIPHANY. It was painful, but I soon recovered.

"The C-Word" is cirrhosis (if not cancer) and it's House. He needs a full liver transplant (not just a lobe), which means someone has to die. Who's dying? Thirteen. We already know Olivia Wilde is returning for the finale (unless that's the biggest red herring in all of red-herring-dom). If House fulfills his promise to Thirteen, he gets her liver -- but House balks, and that's the hook. Much back and forth ensues, perhaps there's a mention of how House deserves it because he's a force for good in the universe (*g*) ... who knows, maybe Wilson indirectly threatens to kill himself to guilt House into taking his liver, and that's what finally pushes House to actually do it. Big emotional scene with House and Thirteen, with the last shot of the series being House wheeled into the OR for the operation.* If she's been taking divalproex sodium (Depakote), valproic acid (Depekene), or carbamazepine (Tegretol), those could provide further complications, since at least two are associated with liver toxicity (a fascinating guide to treating Huntington's is here, from the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics organization).


*Credit for this "last shot" conjecture goes to stenveny, whom I believe also suggested this.



Remember chiclets -- YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. :-D

Comments

[taiga13]

Hey, interesting speculation. When I heard that at least one other House alumnus was returning and it was rumoured that it would be Kal Penn I wondered if we'd see House imagining dead and dying people. Kutner who threw his life away, Thirteen who is/was fighting for her life.
I just finished a really good book, you may like it. It's set in Nova Scotia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/21/linden-macintyre-bishops-man

[nightdog_barks]

It's fun to speculate sometimes! And yeah, I'm really curious to see if Kal Penn gets to come back. I'd love to see him again.

That book sounds like an excellent read! I've added it to my Amazon shopping list. Thanks for the rec. ♥

[topaz_eyes]

Cirrhosis and cancer: it could be both, since the former predisposes to the latter.

I haven't been paying any attention to the latest rounds of spoilers, except for the previews. Maybe the finale will be Son of Coma Guy Redux, with Thirteen as Gabe?

[nightdog_barks]

That's exactly what Corgigirl suggested. :-D

You doing okay? I imagine you've been pretty busy lately. ♥

[damigella]

I cannot for a moment believe they'd be authorizing such a transplant. Unlike in Son of a Coma Guy, they're not kin, so he doesn't have any reason to get a priority on her liver. It would be such sloppy writing... oh. Yeah. Sure.

Great idea, hon. And, whatever the way we get there, I'd love Stenveny's "last shot" conjecture. That would be a great open end.

[nightdog_barks]

Hee, maybe that's part of it -- the transplant isn't authorized, so the last shot is ACTUALLY of hospital security pounding on the locked doors of the OR! NOW THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

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OR MAYBE ... Thirteen comes up with the plan, and everybody agrees to it -- except House. So Wilson drugs him. Ha.