Carrie's Story: The Beach House Mystery
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
A healthy 54-year-old mom goes from beach-week brain fog to 103° fevers, crushing fatigue, chest spasms, and organ dysfunction in a matter of days—ping-ponging through a possible UTI, pancreatitis, and pneumonia diagnosis before landing in the sepsis ward with ARDS and sky-high liver enzymes. With cultures negative and answers scarce, an infectious disease “detective” adds doxycycline—and Carrie’s hunch, sparked by local news headlines, finally cracks the case of the mystery illness that almost killed her.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Erin. How's your week been? |
| 0:10.7 | Hi. It's been great. I just got back from Vancouver. And it's funny because I had this viral video. |
| 0:18.8 | I was teaching social media to doctors and I kind of did a |
| 0:23.3 | test as to, I said, okay, I'm going to make this video. We're going to see if it goes viral. |
| 0:27.7 | And it's about this video about every hand surgeon in the U.S. being in Vancouver. So, you know, |
| 0:33.2 | don't open up an avocado. And it went super viral, like three million people saw it. |
| 0:39.4 | And so everyone knew not to make any guacamole this past weekend. |
| 0:43.7 | So I'm glad to report we had no avocado hand injuries. |
| 0:49.6 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:50.6 | This weekend while we were all gone. |
| 0:52.2 | This has plagued our team before, Molly, our producer. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:56.5 | If you've not been part of this saga, lost some good days to an avocado. |
| 1:05.7 | My week's been pretty chill. |
| 1:07.7 | We are moving into F1, so I'm excited to go racing. Well, no, I'm not racing. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm not getting it. I'm a passenger princess through it. You're a passenger princess. |
| 1:20.6 | I will watch other people get the car. And it always, one of the things that always kind of |
| 1:24.5 | scares me about large events, which relates a lot to our episode today, is lots of people in a space can lead to people getting sick. Like, you know, |
| 1:35.7 | a lot of people came back from Austin City Limits, which was last weekend, everybody's sick |
| 1:40.0 | because it's a bunch of people in a small space. And I think that that kind of ties into our episode, but differently. |
| 1:47.7 | You'll find out more when you listen. |
| 1:49.5 | But I think this episode really does talk about disease and how it spreads and maybe thinking |
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