When the Ghostbusters had started regianing their popularity, after the Vigo incident(which, by the way, in no way coincided with the movie), Peter had gone out and gotten each man a pager. His reasoning being that it was easier to get ahold of them in emergencies if they weren't in the firehouse. Egon put his in the lab somewhere. He never went out, but now, his pager was a perminate part of his body, turned on and stuck in his pocket along with his wallet. His lab was almost fogotten. Almost...but not quite. He still spent the better part of his evenings in there, working on his experiments. But the days, when not on busts or interviews, was spent in the hospital, with Janine. Luckly, the press hadn't been able the put two and two together. Peter had told them Janine was on a leave of absence due to family problems. They took care not to let it leak where exactally Janine was.

One evening, after a day of busts, Egon slipped into the quiet hospital. The ward nurses knew him on sight now, and merely smiled as he passed. He knocked on the door, and opened it quietly. It'd been a little over a month since Janine was placed in here, and he was never sure if she was getting any better. There were days he'd catch her arguing with the orderlies, like she would've in the old days; then there were days, like tonight, when she seemed to revert. She was sitting in the ever present rocking chair, staring aimlessly out the window, clutching the teddy bear he'd gotten for her when she first came here. Her mind seemed to be a million miles away.
"Sorry I'm late," he called out softly, not wanting to startle her. "There were a lot of calls today."
Janine looked over towards him, her eyes lighting up slightly in recignition, but saying nothing. He walked further in, not really knowing what to say.
"Um, you should have seen the class five we got this afternoon, " he heard himself rambling. "It almost looked like a giant cockroach. Scared the wits out of Peter."
The door opened again, and a nurse walked in. Janine looked over at the door, then back at Egon.
"Time for your meds, Janine," the nurse called out. Janine got up out of her chair, walking slowly towards her bed. Egon got out of her way, wondering where he's failed. Janine sat down on her bed, taking the pills in her hand.
"I'm afraid visiting hours are over," the nurse told him. Egon nodded, and began to walk out of the room.
"Just until I fall asleep." They heard Janine's voice call out in the silence. Egon turned back to look at her. "Excuse me?" the nurse asked.
"He just arrived," Janine told her. "May he please stay a little while loger? Just until I fall asleep?"
The nurse looked at Egon, then back to Janine, smiling at her. "All right, but only for a little while." She took the pill cup Janine handed back, then was gone. Egon stood there watching her, for a moment. Janine glanced at him expectantly.
"The cockroaches?" she prompted. "Oh right," he answered, walking back towards the chair, and taking a seat by the bed. "Well, the only other time I've ever seen Peter move that fast was when Slimer stole his good shirt for a date..."

At two months, several things happened: A week went by where every ghost in town decided to come out. The Ghostbusters had their hands full almost 24 hours a day.
Even Aggie had been staying overnight, sleeping on the couch when she could get a chance. During that time, Egon's mother found out what had happened to Janine, and Janine had a major relapse.

It was the fourth day running and there wasn't relief in sight. The guys were tired, hungry, and in desperate need of a bath. Aggie was half-asleep at the reception desk, opening one eye when she heard Ecto roll in. "Here," she grumbled, handing them a sheet of paper, as the four stepped out of the car. Peter grimaced at it as he walked past to empty the traps in the containment unit. Ray plopped down in the chair next to the desk, taking the paper from Aggie. He groaned loudly.
"I'm actually beginning to hate class five free roamers," he complained.
"There was also a call, saying their refrigerator is possessed," Aggie added, laying her head back down.
"We don't do refrigerators," Peter announced loudly from the basement. Ever since the first movie, they received a call at least three times a year about possessed refrigerators. So far, they were all hoaxes.
"Dr. Spengler, your mother called," Aggie told Egon before he could get up the stairs. "She says she's with Mrs. Melnitz."
Egon groaned. That meant she knew. Which meant he was going to get the riot act read to him for not telling her sooner. Before he could dwell on it, the phone rang again.
Aggie picked it up. "Ghostbusters," Nodding, she wrote down the address. "All right. they'll be there as soon as they can."
She hung up the phone, handing Ray the new piece of paper.
"Big nasty, bothering the spectators at the carnival on Coney Island," she told them. The collection of groans followed the men back to Ecto-1.

Finally, after six days of non-stop running and busting, the streets of New York were quiet...at least from the paranormal things anyway. Egon had just come out of a much needed shower, and was seriously contemplating skipping the lab and heading straight for bed, when the phone rang.
"No more calls!" Peter yelled from the bathroom.
"Dr. Spengler," Aggie's voice called over the intercom. "It's your mother."
Sighing quietly, he walked into the bunkroom and picked up the phone. "Yes Mother?"
"Egon dear, have you been so busy that you haven't had a chance to call me?" his mother asked on the other line.
"I'm sorry Mother, we've only gotten home. What did you need?" He frowned as his mother's answer was drowned out by the loud commotion in the background. "Mother, where are you?"
He could hear his mother talking rapidly to someone next to her. There was a blood chilling scream that cut through the background commotion, then he heard his mother talking again. Finally, she returned to the phone. "Egon, I believe you should come down here," she said.
"Where? Mother, where are you?" he asked.
"I'm at the hospital with Janine's mother. Apparently Janine's suffered a relapse."