Ep. 23 | Gut Instinct/Into the Woods

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

“Gut Instinct”

In the summer of 2021, a doctor celebrates his retirement with a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. But shortly after he gets back, he begins experiencing debilitating stomach pain. Desperate to figure out what’s wrong with him, he tries to diagnose himself. He suspects the answer is a horrible disease that people rarely survive.

“Into the Woods”

After a camping trip in the summer of 2009, a woman develops a gruesome rash that covers her body with painful welts and makes her mouth bleed. Multiple doctors can’t figure out what is wrong with her – because the answer is something few physicians would ever suspect.

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0:09.4	Download the app today. In the summer of 2021, a 71-year-old retired doctor stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror.
0:26.0	He barely recognized himself. Since returning from a river rafting trip two weeks ago, he had lost 15 pounds, almost a pound every day.
0:35.7	He looked 10 years older than he had just a few weeks ago, and he felt 10 years older.
0:40.9	He picked up his toothbrush and squeezed some paste onto the bristles.
0:44.4	Just then, intense fatigue washed over his entire body.
0:48.4	Then he had an overwhelming urge to vomit.
0:51.6	Moments later, he was lying on the cold bathroom tiles, coughing and gagging, as severe pain shot through his stomach like a knife.
0:59.0	Until now, this retired doctor had tried to be his own doctor, taking endless notes about his symptoms and his condition and how it was going.
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