For thirteen seasons, we’ve watched Meredith Grey absolutely kick ass at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospitals. Surviving a hospital shooting, a plane crash, drowned, held a BOMB in her hands, even losing her beloved husband and father to her children, she’s truly been through it all. I mean, Cristina Yang said it best:

But what if she hasn’t actually been through it all?

Natalie Abrams, a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, seems to believe that Meredith has inherited her mother’s gift in the operating room, but also her Alzheimer’s disease. Take a deep breath. Now take a deeper one. Now think for a second.

Of all the things that Grey has survived, like the events previously mentioned, doesn’t it all seem far-fetched? According to Abrams, Meredith’s tales seem like this as she narrates her stories to her three children in the future. Having succumbed to Alzheimer’s, Grey’s stories get more and more well, depressing.

Meredith has narrated and survived truly shocking events. Besides all previously mentioned, she was attacked by a man who had no memory following the event, she figured out that the John Doe who was hit by a bus was O’Malley (RIP 007) and even had to deliver her second child in the middle of a storm! With keeping the Alzheimer’s theory in mind, could this all have actually happened?

Some emotions you might be experiencing is sadness, anger, maybe even had an epiphany of some kind where it all makes sense. Me personally? I’d be livid, but not entirely shocked if the series wrapped up with Grey having the disease. After all, she did worry in the first few seasons that she would one day inherit the disease from her mother. But if this is all true… I love Grey’s and Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital...

Totally kidding. As long as Grey’s is on the television/available on Netflix/etc, Shonda can always count on me as a viewer. Maybe Shonda is trying to depict Grey-Sloan as an absolute hell-hole, and that’s okay with me. That leaves more room for Meredith to kick some ass in the OR. Or more completely far fetched stories of her kicking ass. You decide.