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Laura Linney | ... | ||
Oliver Platt | ... | ||
Gabriel Basso | ... | ||
John Benjamin Hickey | ... | ||
Gabourey Sidibe | ... | ||
Alan Alda | ... |
Dr. Atticus Sherman
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Isaac Mizrahi | ... | ||
Dana Ivey | ... | ||
Kathy Najimy | ... |
Cathy's Therapist
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Liz Holtan | ... | ||
Darlene Hunt | ... |
Hospice Administrator
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Michael Ray Escamilla | ... |
Angel
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Bianca Amato | ... |
Susan Rand
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Angela Lewis | ... |
Day Nurse
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Tijuana Ricks | ... |
Day Nurse
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It's January, and Cathy isn't doing well, now on routine pain medication and the tumors growing bigger. Rather than lean on her family, she decides to go into the hospice, which her family believes is her giving up, she trying to assure them that she isn't in an unusual way. An incident with her hospice roommate Nan shows Cathy that she isn't ready to die yet. Visions Cathy sees at the hospice may make death closer than she wants. With Cathy no longer at home, a question becomes how Paul and Adam will cope in this early stage without her. With a match found, Sean reconsiders his decision to donate a kidney. Bethany, the hospice therapy cat, may give Sean a better sense if he should go through with the donation. And Andrea faces a dilemma in that the "death shroud" she is making for size 8 Cathy, which is also acting as her term assignment, has to appear in a fashion show on a model size 6 or smaller, Andrea who refuses to cut the outfit just to make the runway model look better. Written by Huggo