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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: During Thursday’s B Positive Final, Drew and Gina go under the knife for Drew’s kidney transplant – and although we do not know whether the operation will be successful or not, the events that preceded it set the stage for a hypothetical second season.
So what happened before the anesthesia started? Read on to find out …
At the beginning of Life Expectancy, Gina tells Eli that she decided to find her own place after the transplant instead of moving back in with Gabby. “I’m not sure anymore if the party lifestyle is my thing,” she says. “In the IHOP parking lot, you can only sniff a Coke with a busboy so often before he loses his glamor.” She doesn’t have a plan, but she has some time to find out. In the meantime, Eli invites Gina to move in with him, but she refuses. The relationship is new and she doesn’t want to mess things up by falling into anything.
Back at home, Drew Adriana has prepared a selection of Swiss delicacies before her trip to Switzerland, where Adriana is to undergo experimental cancer treatment. She is very impressed, but she cannot stay. She tells Drew that she is on her way to the airport. She decided to go without him. As amazing as it would be if Drew joined her, Adriana refuses to let her boyfriend delay his transplant for two months. She assures him that they will resume their relationship as soon as she gets back.
The next morning, Drew attends his last dialysis appointment. He’s going to miss these sessions, crazy as that sounds. Jerry, Eli and Gideon have become his closest friends. Heck, he even loves empathy from Megyn, who’s only been on dialysis for a week. Before Gina arrives for a celebratory group hug, the men encourage Drew to buy his donor a gift – something to thank her for her sacrifice.
Then Gideon accompanies Gina to an apartment. It’s a bit of a fixer-upper, but “everything is fine,” she says. “Could not be better.” Within seconds, Gina is in an identity crisis: “I don’t know who I am. I know who I was when I was with Drew, but after tomorrow I won’t be Gina, the kidney donor, and I don’t want to be Gina, the party girl again. And I don’t want to be Gina, the van driver anymore … I don’t know who to be and I don’t know what to do. “Gideon doesn’t gloss over it -” Change is hard, “he says – but this is a chance to start over.
Back at the house, Drew’s ex-wife Julia comes by to wish him the best of luck before his big day. She also tells him that Gina’s generosity inspired her to donate one of her own kidneys. Maybe she suits Eli or Jerry? Whoever gets it will look great on their Tinder profile. Before she leaves, Drew asks Julia for tips on what gift to get Gina. She tells him to get something out of the heart – but if he can’t think of anything, diamond earrings will do.
Drew and Gina had difficulty sleeping the night before the transplant. He tells her that he almost didn’t go to her mutual friend’s wedding where they reconnected; If he hadn’t gone, his life would have been completely different. “I wouldn’t have made you move in here and drive me crazy,” he says. Then he gives her a life-changing bunch of keys: it’s a key to the house. He wants her to stay. She humbly accepts and tells Drew that he has given new meaning to her life.
A few hours later, Drew gives Gina a second gift: a limo to take her to the hospital. Paul is out to capture the moment and then follows them into the surgical unit, where they are greeted by Gabby and the entire dialysis group. We then see a montage of congratulations from everyone in Drew and Gina’s respective orbits, including Norma who is in Italy with her daughter.
Before Drew is operated on, he stops and tells Gina that he loves her, and she reciprocates. It’s platonic, but very cute. We then cut to Drew and Gina in separate operating rooms, where they are told to count down from 10.
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