House Season 5 Episode 23 “Under My Skin”
Submitted on July 14, 2009 No Comment
House realizes that his hallucinations may be worse than he expected, and after lying to Wilson initially about his visions of Amber, he comes clean and admits that he really a rehab treatment. Meanwhile, the team tries to save the life of Penelope, a dancer who needs to get her heart fixed.
Things get worse when Penelope’s hands and feet turn black from their closing blood vessels in the middle of an operation to save her. Chase tells the patient that they will have to amputate or else gangrene will set in. As a dancer, Penelope would rather be dead then not have feet and the team considers letting her die. They opt to operate on Penelope using vasodilators to open the arteries in her hands and toes, and the surgery is successful.
