General Hospital Spoilers: Oscar Nero’s Death Hits Port Charles Residents Hard – Ned Checks On Monica

General Hospital spoilers tease that Ned Quartermaine (Wally Kurth) will be checking on his aunt Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson) to make sure she’s okay as Oscar Nero Quartermaine’s (Garren Lake Stitt) death draws near. Monica has lost three children over her lifetime and Oscar’s death is the first grandchild to die, and that could bring up some compounded grief if Oscar’s death triggers buried grief over the others!

Monica has had two natural children, AJ Quartermaine (Sean Kanan, Billy Warlock) and Dawn Winthrop (Sharon Case, Lisa Fuller, Jennifer Guthrie). She was given up for adoption and then showed up in the nursing school program of General Hospital in 1989.

It was revealed that she was Monica’s long-lost daughter with David Langton, a man to whom Monica was engaged but died before the wedding could happen. Dawn and Ned fell in love and almost married, but Dawn found out Monica had had an affair with Ned and bailed out. She left town, later came back but then was the victim of a murder. Longtime General Hospital viewers may remember those storylines.

AJ was of course her son with Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon). Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) and Drew Cain (Billy Miller) are stepsons from an affair that Alan had, but she still thinks of them as her sons and so thinks of Oscar as her grandson. Emily Quartermaine (Natalia Livingston) was adopted, but Monica of course was her mom by adoption and counts her as her own also.

One thing unique to Oscar’s situation is that Monica has never set up what basically constitutes a hospice in her home. That makes her the doctor on call if anything happens with Oscar whether she’s at home or at work, and things could happen with Oscar any time of night or day. That could be a lot of emotional pressure on Monica, although she hides it well.

Whether he will actually die in the Quartermaine mansion or not is questionable; preview photos in Soap Opera Digest in the May 6 edition appear to show him in the hospital, in a hospital bed in a hospital gown, with Drew and Dr. Kim Nero (Tamara Braun) preparing to say goodbye to him. Even though Monica may have had a hospital bed and medical equipment installed at the mansion, it doesn’t seem reasonable for him to have hospital gowns there as well.

A sad, sad story for General Hospital fans is about to come to an end with the death of Oscar; stay tuned to GH and keep checking General Hospital spoilers frequently for all the latest news, updates and spoilers!

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