Nurse Jackie is back with episode 3 “Chicken Soup”. Kevin is worried that their oldest daughter Grace may have a problem when all she wants to do is watch documentaries about world war and disease. An elderly man with congestive heart disease and a triple bypass in 1994 refuses treatment and instead his wife comes in to sit with homemade chicken soup from home and feeds him, saying it’s the only medicine he needs.

Jackie sees Eddie for more meds for her troubling back and he informs her that he is going to be replaced with a pill dispensing machine, which ticks Jackie off to no end prompting her to turn to the least likely of people for help:  Doctor “Coop” Cooper. She asks him if he will vote against the hospital replacing Eddie with a robot, which of course makes “Coop” assume she has a little crush on Eddie.  Boy, if he only knew!

A young couple visiting New York from Ohio make an emergency visit when the girlfriend starts suffering from abdominal pains, which leads Jackie to order a pregnancy test only to have the results come back negative for pregancy but positive for opiates.  The girl had gotten hooked ever since she had wisdom teeth pulled and her doctor put her on vicadin for the pain.

Dr. O’Hara borrows Zoeys brand new thethoscope that her mother bought for her to check a paitents heart and never returns it, prompting Jackie to remind her that it is part of her uniform and she better have it on her at all times. Little does she know Dr. O’Hara is pulling a prank on her.  After several unsuccessful  attempts to try and ask for it back, Zoey runs into O’Hara sitting in the hall apparently taking a catnap, sunglasses on and all.  Zoey manages to get the thethoscope back and as she turns to walk away we see a sly grin come over O’hara’s face proving that she was aware of it the whole time.

Chicken soup man ultimately passes away, his wife telling Jackie that she knew all along of the pain he was in even though he didn’t thinks she knew, but as she said, “We were married for 100 years. How could I not know.”

Back at home after a long day at work, Jackie trys to console Grace as she asks if there could ever be another disease or flu that could wipe out the population. She confidently tells her no. Not with todays medicine. Then trys to get Grace to try some soup. It is good for her. It will help what troubles her.

Need I have to tell you what kind of soup that was? Hmmmmmmmmm?

I didn’t think so.  Once again, a wonderful episode.

Until Next time!

Michael Queenstown

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