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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 28 | Dead Tired

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A mother in Fresno, California races her young son to the emergency room after he goes limp and his eyes roll back in his head. It turns out, the boy was poisoned. And the true culprit was something no one ever saw coming.

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Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 25 through 32 of Mr.

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Download the app today. In October of 1961, a young mother hit the gas as she tore down a dusty road in Fresno, California.

0:24.8

She gripped the steering wheel so hard that her knuckles turned white.

0:28.4

She glanced into the rearview mirror at her eight-year-old son in the back seat.

0:32.3

His skin looked gray and sweat was

0:34.3

dripping down his face. His chest rose and fell quickly as he struggled to catch his

0:38.6

breath. Suddenly his eyes rolled back in his head and his entire body went limb.

0:44.0

The woman floored the accelerator.

0:46.0

They were still several miles from the doctor's office,

0:49.0

and her little guy was getting sicker by the minute.

0:51.0

She urged him to please hang on as she raced down the road,

0:54.6

desperate to get him help before it was too late. Hello, I'm Emily, one of the hosts of Terribly Famous, the show that takes you

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