Caray, Caray!

This is a super sad episode and the recap is very long because of all the detail.

A little refresher from way back last Wednesday, Orlando and Claudio are in the ICU with Isela who is on life support, arguing about who will take care of the baby. Orlando claims that Isela’s last wish was to have Orlando take care of her, but Claudio wants to step up and claim the baby as his own, even giving her his last name. Poor Doris, hanging back by the doorway, hears this exchange and is heartbroken at learning Orlando’s intentions and feelings. Just then, Isela takes a huge breath and her eyes jolt open. Orlando reacts, and runs to get the doctor while Claudio stands there stunned. (I know who I want around me in an emergency, and it’s not the Clod). 
Orlando finds a doctor, sees Doris, hugs her saying that Isela is awake, and goes back in.

Back at the poor person's hospital, The Padre comes out with the nurse after baptizing the baby, the nurse tells Esperanza and Max that she will send them the video of it. Why couldn’t they be there in person?
Just then, Max gets a call that Alma is brought to the rich person's hospital.  He runs off to see about her.


Wow, Clara is all dolled up, hair curled and loose, looking sexy in a black strappy dress with the other girls giving out flyers for a night club? and Leo walks by and sees her there. She asks the other girls to not tell Corina that she’s working there, I guess they know Corina from Corina’s past work, but they assure her they won’t because they are all working there because they need the money for their families too.
Meanwhile, the guy who hired her is calling another guy to tell him that the new girl, Clara, has started but he’s surprised that she came because she didn’t seem comfortable with doing this kind of work, but she needs the money, so it wasn’t hard to convince her. But she’s all natural, innocent, no fake boobs, just like your clients like. So the guy he’s talking to tells him to call back when she’s ready to move on from handing out flyers.

At the prison, Nayeli is trying to talk MD out of investigating Martha’s death. Let Max handle it. Bottom line: There was no talking her out of it.

Back on the street, Leo comes over and tells Clara that she doesn’t have to do this kind of work. He can ask Max to give her work at the office. But Clara doesn’t want anyone to know that she quit school so no. Just then, Leo gets a call from Max about their mother. Clara runs after him.

Back at Isela’s wing, the doctor informs them that she didn’t wake up. She’s in what’s called a vegetative state. She didn’t wake up, she just reacted to something, but she’s still in a coma and may stay this way for years or die in a few months. They can move her back home, she doesn’t need to stay in the hospital while she’s still alive and the baby continues to grow.

The prison nurse is wrapping up MD’s belly to help with the afterpains? I’ve never heard of doing this before. She tells her that her womb will shrink back to normal soon. If she could breastfeed her baby, the pains would stop sooner, or they could give here a pill and it would stop the milk flow and also end the pains. MD doesn’t want to do that yet, she’s hoping to be able to feed the baby. This is all new to me, I thought that the milk dries up fairly rapidly if it isn’t expressed within a day or two.

Doris and Orlando are in the waiting room when Doris tells Orlando that she wishes this could have happened to her instead of Isela because his daughter needs him. Orlando says what we would expect, that he would not want that. She confesses that she overheard him tell Claudio that no one loves Isela more than him and that made her feel sad and unloved. Orlando confesses that Isela was his first love, she’s lived near him since they were little,  and it pains him so much because it was his fault that she’s in her situation. Doris tells him that it wasn’t his fault, but Orlando comes back with what the doctor said, he should never have moved her. Doris gets up right away to confirm this with the doctor. She knows that Orlando will never get over the guilt if he continues to think that. Orlando follows.
She finds the doctor, asks him if he said that it was Orlando’s fault that Isela is in a coma for moving her. The doctor said he never said that. It’s true, never move someone who has had an injury to the head, neck, or vertebrae, but she’s in the coma because of the hit to her head from the fall she suffered. Esperanza comes over just then, and tells them that Alma is now at the hospital too.

Corina comes back to hell to visit Nayeli and MD. Corina thanks MD for all the help to release her, and for all her family helping her now. Corina is going to be helping Max with Nayeli’s case too. But she also gives Nayeli the bad news, Aldo, her ex, has remarried and has a child with her.

Ivana is at the hospital too, heard the news about Alma and is giving her condolences, tells him that she will tell Claudio, Oh yeah, Claudio, lol, when Leo runs in. The doctor also arrives to tell them that she’s bad and it’s unpredictable as to what will happen next. She could recover or not. Just like Isela’s mess, no? The boys are devastated.

Nayeli gets angry and tells them that she doesn’t even care what Aldo does with his life, she only cares about her children. Corina tells her that the kids aren’t with Aldo. This enrages Nayeli. Have you seen them? Are they together? This is her biggest worry, that they aren’t together to take care of each other. Corina tells her that she hasn’t seen them, she’s still looking for them. She’s asked the neighbors, but no one knows anything. But it’s better that they’re not with Aldo, but she promises she will continue to look.

Back in Alma’s hospital room, Max and Leo are permitted to see her. She’s sitting up in bed, alive. She asks if it’s true about Isela, she’s bad but they are trying to save the baby. Then Max asks who told her. Josefa...

Ivana pays Isela a visit, followed by Esperanza. She tells Isela that she remembers when Isela was a little girl and she was crying because Josefa hit her, and Rodolfo and Espy promised to protect her, and look at what a bad job they did. But she promises that all of them will take care of and protect her little girl. Ivana then chimes in that she wants to take care of the little baby. She would like Esperanza to convince Orlando to let Ivana take care of Isela and raise the baby. Esperanza can’t go against Isela’s last wish that Orlando take care of her. And she can’t help think it odd that Ivana has only known Isela a few months. Ivana continues to plead her case, it’s true she’s thinking more of the baby, and Ivana has soooo much money she can give the baby everything it wants and needs. Ok, she didn’t say that about her money, but her love. She would even take care of Isela in the meantime. To end this uncomfortable conversation, Espy finally says that Claudio probably has the last word on this legally since he’s the baby’s father. But Esperanza does takes advantage of this exchange to plead for her daughter’s release from prison. She needs Ivana’s help with her testimony. Ivana promises to be there for the hearing.
As Orlando and Doris are leaving the hospital, he tells her that right before Isela had her accident, he had prepared a surprise for her. He wanted to do something to show her that he love her. She tells him that he already did it. When he said that it would kill him if Doris died. Well, he also wanted them to be able to talk, and he actually wanted to propose marriage to her. Now Doris is alarmed. She asks him if he’s changed his mind since he’s talking past tense. He tells her that since all this has happened to Isela, that he’s not sure she would want to marry him and also raise Isela’s baby and take care of Isela too.
Doris wants to know why would he have to take care of the baby. What about Claudio?
He said it was Isela’s last wish that he take care of the baby. And you know what? Even if it hadn’t been, he would do it anyway because Josefa told the doctor to disconnect life support so that Isela and the baby would die.
Doris wants time to think about this. It’s a huge life-changing event. She’s not sure if she’s ready for this. She gets up to leave.

Nayeli warns Corina to be very careful of Aldo. If he finds out that she’s investigating the kids for Nayeli, he’s likely to take it out on the children.

The two neighborhood guys buy some parts from Aldo, I forget the reason Corina asked them to do this for her. They are stolen? She wants to get him in trouble?

Clara shows up at the hospital and meets with Esperanza, but Clara doesn’t know what’s happened, she just heard Leo's end of the conversation. Espy fills her in that it’s only a matter of hours before Alma passes away. Clara agrees she wants to be there for Leo. And Leo needs her too since Max is so preoccupied with everything he’s got going on.
Leo is standing guard outside of Alma’s room and won’t let Claudio in, lol. Espy and Clara come over and he lets them in. Leo steps in and asks Alma if Claudio can come in too, and she agrees. Max pulls out his phone, and everyone watches the video of the baby’s baptism. Alma learns that they named the baby Alma, Max said that MD decided that. Alma wishes them to be happy after all they have suffered. The camera pans to Claudio, the main reason for the suffering, and Max gives him the stink eye.

Corina lets MD know all that her family has done for her now that she’s out. She has a job and Espy is letting her stay at their house. They plead with Corina to find her parents to let them know she’s safe and sound, there’s nothing worse for a parent to not know what’s happening with their children. (that’s the truth.)

As Max, Claudio, Espy, and Clara are leaving the room, Josefa finally shows up. She spews so much slang, I have no idea what she’s saying, but it prompts Claudio to tell her to stop saying awful things about Isela. Max tells her that they aren’t there for Isela, but for his mother after what she’s done to her to cause her to need to come to the hospital. She’s just killing two birds with one stone, getting rid of all of Claudio’s women, says Josefa. Max tells her to leave, or he will force her out.

Doris is unburdening herself on Esperanza, Chelita and Clara. She always thought that she and Orlando would get married, travel, live a fun carefree life for a while, and now she doesn’t know what to do. They discuss the implications of taking care of Isela and the baby. Poor Doris.

Alma slowly wheels her IV drip to visit Isela. She gets another blow when she sees Claudio asleep at Isela’s bedside with his hand on her womb. Poor Alma, she’s really getting the crap thrown at her. She crumbles into a ball and cries outside the room. The next scene is Alma walking perfectly fine into her room and she kneels down to kiss Leo on the forehead. He wakes up to see her lying in bed. He goes over to her and kisses her, only to feel her face is cold and he can’t wake her up. He cries over her death.
The end.

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