Ep. 21 | Breathless

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, a healthy high school volleyball star suddenly has to fight for every breath she takes. Within a few weeks, she’s on the list for multiple organ transplants and needs a refrigerator-sized machine to keep her alive. Her doctors have no idea why this is happening to her – until the answer comes from a place nobody ever expected.

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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. In 2012, a teenager in Minnesota opened her eyes from a deep sleep.
0:14.0	One of the last things she remembered. in Minnesota opened her eyes from a deep sleep.
0:23.0	One of the last things she remembered was feeling sick at a volleyball practice.
0:27.0	Now she saw that she was lying in a bed in a small crowded room.
0:31.0	She heard piercing tones and beeps coming from something on her right
0:34.9	side. She tried to sit up and realized that she could barely move. In fact, it took all of her
0:40.8	strength just to lift her head and look down toward her feet.
0:44.7	She was shocked at what she saw.
0:46.9	Narrow plastic tubes and white wires were piled like spaghetti all around her.
0:52.0	As she moved, she felt a pulling sensation and she realized that all these tubes and wires
0:56.8	were attached to her body.
0:59.0	And then she saw that they all led to one place, a massive machine the size of a refrigerator sitting on the right side of her bed.
1:06.8	Out of the corner of her eyes she saw someone come into the room. It was her mother and
1:11.0	her eyes were filled with tears.
1:13.0	She took her daughter's hand and explained that the giant machine to the right of her
1:17.3	was breathing for her. It was keeping her alive.
1:20.8	And she might need it for the rest of her life. The Queen of the courtroom is back.
1:34.0	How did I know that? I have crystal ball in my head.
1:36.0	New cases.
1:38.0	Leave her.
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