Ep. 22 | Surf’s Up
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On Christmas Day, 2008, a surfer living in Hawaii wakes up with a splitting headache and itching all over his body. Soon, the man is comatose and nearly brain-dead in a hospital as doctors struggle to understand what’s happening. His doctors don’t think he’ll recover, but his mother refuses to give up hope – will her belief be enough to save him?
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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. A middle-aged mother named Kay was fast asleep in a remote forest in Indonesia when she heard her phone ring. |
| 0:26.6 | Her hand drifted over to the nightstand by her bed, but by the time she grabbed her phone, |
| 0:31.3 | the call had gone to voicemail. When Kay looked at the screen, she felt a time she had |
| 0:35.0 | had gone to voicemail. When Kaye looked at the screen, she felt a bolt of fear. |
| 0:36.0 | She had two obviously urgent text messages, as well as three missed calls, |
| 0:41.0 | all from her sister in Hawaii. And in the text messages her sister |
| 0:46.0 | was trying to tell Kay that her son had a fast-moving infection that actually |
| 0:50.9 | could kill him and so she needed to get home right now. |
| 0:55.0 | Kay's trip to Indonesia to work on a farm had been her adventure of a lifetime, |
| 1:00.0 | but now all she could think about was her son. |
| 1:03.0 | Two days and 6,000 miles of travel later, |
| 1:06.0 | Kay finally arrived by her son's bedside, |
| 1:09.0 | and she was shocked at what she saw. |
| 1:11.0 | When she had left for Indonesia, her son had been this healthy, tanned, surfer young man, and |
| 1:17.7 | now he was sickly looking with a tangle of wires and tubes coming off of every part of his |
| 1:22.1 | body. |
| 1:23.0 | As Kay began to cry, she kept asking the same question. |
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