Who can be "Grey" when I am this excited!!!?

For many weeks, my friend in Los Angeles has been posting clues as to what show her son, Brandon Tyler Russell, will be guest starring on. I have been patiently waiting for the weeks to pass to find out the answer to this question. To my delight, it has been revealed he will be guest starring on the 300th episode of Grey's Anatomy on Thursday night on ABC!!! I am so thrilled. Although, I was super excited to find out he was cast as a guest star on a top-rated television show many weeks ago, Grey's Anatomy is such a huge hit and holds a special place in my heart.

When the show premiered in 2005, I was instantly a fan. I LOVED the medical aspect of the show. There were so many challenging medical cases, and there were so many interesting patients. No two medical cases or patients were ever alike. I also greatly enjoyed the show profiling the life of first year medical interns. The interns always had to do the most degrading jobs and were constantly climbing a steep mountain, trying to learn and perfect new skills without making any mistakes (and thus avoiding being yelled at by their attending and senior residents).

I watched the show religiously every week for the first three seasons. Then, work and school got in the way. After missing most of season four, I tried getting back into watching the show, but it was too hard. There were new characters on the show, and old characters had left. Complex storylines had evolved which were too challenging to try to figure out with missing almost a whole season. So, I stopped watching.

But now, the 300th episode promises to bring back old characters to the show, either in spirit or in the form of look-alike characters. I loved the original cast. Although I do not watch television (and have not watched tv in several years), I am overjoyed to set aside part of my Thursday night to watch a favorite old show and to watch an incredible, talented young actor guest star on such a popular show. Brandon Tyler Russell will be amazing! I pray this role will lead to many more.