Ep. 14 | Chimera
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In late 2002, a 26-year-old single mother and her children take a DNA test as part of a welfare application. The results are shocking: they say she is not the mother. She has to find a way to prove the children really are hers or risk having them taken away from her forever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can binge episode 17 through 24 of Mr. |
| 0:05.1 | Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.4 | Download the app today. Inside a Washington State Hospital in 2003, a young woman was about to give birth and she was extremely nervous, but not just because she was going to have a baby for the first time. |
| 0:29.0 | A court officer stood just a few feet away from her and her eyes never left the expectant mother. |
| 0:34.8 | And as soon as the baby was born and its umbilical cord was cut, that officer quickly took a |
| 0:39.1 | vial of the mother and child's blood and then immediately raced out of the room. |
| 0:43.0 | What that vial contained could save this mother's family |
| 0:47.0 | or it could send her to prison. What does it mean to be black in America? An NPR's black stories, black truths, |
| 1:01.4 | a collection of stories as very nuanced and dynamic as Black experiences. |
| 1:06.1 | You'll hear. |
| 1:07.3 | It means everything. |
| 1:09.3 | Search MPR Black Stories Black Truths wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | What does it mean to be Black in America? |
| 1:18.0 | An NPR's Black Stories Black Truths, |
| 1:21.0 | a collection of stories as very nuanced and dynamic as Black experiences, |
| 1:25.0 | you'll hear. It means everything. |
| 1:28.0 | Search NPR Black Stories Black Truths wherever you get your podcast. Studios and wondery I'm Mr. Ballin and this is Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries |
| 1:45.2 | where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the |
| 1:50.1 | one place we all can't escape, our own bodies. |
| 1:55.8 | If you like today's story, |
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| 2:00.0 | with hot dog water. Today's episode is called Kymira. |
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