'Grey's Anatomy': Dr. Webber's Wife Adele Realizes She Has Alzheimer's (VIDEO)

It was a tough week for Cristina, as she spent the entire hour growing more and more convinced that Owen was cheating on her with Summer Glau on "Grey's Anatomy" (Thu., 9 p.m. EST on ABC). To keep things mysterious, Glau didn't speak a word during her guest turn, adding fuel to the skulking and spying that Cristina was doing. By the end of the hour, she seemed more convinced than ever, but no definitive answer had been given as to whether or not he was cheating on her, or just treating her rather poorly.

Far more definitive was Adele's self-awareness. Richard had decided that he owed it to his wife to stand by her through sickness as per their wedding vows, no matter how bad they got. But after a kitchen fire led to him getting a pretty serious burn, and then she lashed out with no idea who he was later, he began to realize the enormity of what he was going to do.

But that night, Adele came in and while she had no idea what had happened to his hand, or the dining room, she surprised him by saying, "I have Alzheimer's, don't I?"

She remembered visiting Rose Ridge nursing home earlier that day. At the time she had thought this was her and Richard looking for their first house, but now she knew exactly what it was, and insisted to Richard that that's where she belonged, and where she wanted to be.

Watch "Grey's Anatomy" on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

Related on HuffPost:

Comments

[mrsjetjr]

10:30 AM on 02/27/2012

Please don't miss the opportunity to show how Adel’s plight can be buffered with good care that has little to do with medicine just knowing the right way and the wrong way to manage behavior can avoid or dilute these very melt downs Richard walked in on. Let Richard learn this on screen. Not everything surgical involves a scalpel. The Alzheimer's acting out scène just served to prove anyone with Alzheimers need to be confined to OLD PEOPLE'S JAIL. Shame on Grey's Anatomy for this portrayal this is the epitome of bigotry and prejudice against a formidable disability.

[ruthieriver1]

04:35 PM on 02/24/2012

If only alzheimers was so clean and nice in a littlepackage, instead I see what mymother goesthrough helping my father that has alzheimers, she changes his diapers, helps feed him, shower him and is there for his continuous barking orders at her 24 hrs a day....Alzhemiers is a insedious thief that is not much different than a monster in the middle of the night.......

[robjh1]

03:22 PM on 02/24/2012

Loretta Devine is a fantastic actress!

[b0nni3]

03:46 PM on 02/24/2012

so very true...I've always loved her voice, it's so soothing...

[ShyChiLady]

08:45 PM on 02/24/2012

I thought I was the only one who felt that way about her voice! I first discovered her in Waiting To Exhale.