(It also didn’t help that two Guardians dragged her out of the market after she was shot like she was already dead. Could Natalie have been saved when she was brought in? Most likely not, as the doctor explains that she’d lost a tremendous amount of blood. Ofmatthew, who we should honor as Natalie with her real name, has become just a vessel for the safekeeping of this other human, a womb that just so happens to have a human attached. Wait, scratch that, she’s praying that Ofmatthew’s baby will make it to viability so the mother, who is a great uterus but of little other value to Gilead, can just die already.Īlong with June’s descent into madness, that’s the big takeaway of “Heroic”: the shudder-inducing reality of what happens when the life of the baby is valued that much more than the life of the mother, when the fetus, an unknown being, is considered more important than its creator by dint of society’s obsession with the “innocence” of babies. As punishment (for taunting Ofmatthew, possibly, or for just generally failing to comply with any of the rules governing handmaids for the last two years or so), June is forced to kneel in supplication all day long, praying that her walking partner will heal. That song is cruel in any circumstances (besides when it’s used in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion) and downright maddening here.įor June, who has no relief from the dings, the white glare of the room, or the smells of antiseptic and shit and encroaching death, it’s enough to push her around the bend. I found myself mildly relieved every time Ofmatthew (or Natalie, whose real name we learned at the end of the l ast episode when Aunt Lydia screamed it in Loaves and Fishes) seized or slowed her breathing and the pitch and tenor of the beeps would change. It’s the sort of oddity that at first might make you giggle but then feels suffocating, a form of auditory torture. “Ohhhh baby, do you know what that’s worth,” she mouths along with the chimes, calling up Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” before she turns straight to the camera and, in a move that breaks the fourth wall a little more thoroughly than her prior stares and grimaces, tells the viewer, “You’ll hear it.”Īnd you do. June, even after 32 days - and then, apparently, several months - in a hospital room, with ventilators and EKG readers dinging mercilessly, all day and all night, still hears the beeps. All these bips and beeps and boops start to fade into the background after a while, so when the pumps and machines start to indicate there’s truly a problem, doctors and nurses aren’t always able to pick up on it. I know it may feel uncomfortable, especially if you have young children in the next room, but you're always supposed to sleep with bedroom doors CLOSED to prevent a fire from spreading.įor more information on Fire Prevention Week go HERE.There’s a weird condition called “alarm fatigue” that hospital personnel sometimes develop. If no one has cooked fish recently and you notice a fishy smell, it could be an indicator of an electrical emergency. You probably don’t think, “electrical issue” when you smell fish. I can say with certainty that most, if not all of us, know what smoke smells like and that that means fire! But, What About A "Fish" Smell?Ĭooking fires are the number one cause of Massachusetts home fires, but what about electrical fires? The following is really important to know. Pick a family meeting place outside out front that's a safe distance from the home.
THE GIRL WHO SEES SMELLS EP 9 WINDOWS
Be sure your routes aren't blocked by furniture or other objects, and be sure the doors and windows open easily.
To create your plan, start with a diagram of your home and think about two ways out of every room (remember that one way out may be a window). Your ability to get out of a home during a fire depends on early warning from working smoke alarms and a practiced home escape plan.Įvery home is different, and every home fire escape plan will also be different. You could have two minutes or less to safely escape a fire at home after the smoke alarm sounds. Today’s homes burn much faster than they did decades ago.
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