Ep. 33 | Sunless Burn
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In December 1979, young women all over Wisconsin fall ill with a mysterious disease that starts with a bright red rash – and sometimes leads to death. Soon, it’s happening to women all over the United States – and nobody knows why.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 33 through 40 of Mr. |
| 0:04.2 | Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.6 | Download the app today. A 40-year-old man stood next to his teenage daughter in a |
| 0:24.1 | daughter, |
| 0:21.8 | clutching her hand as she laid there unconscious on a gurney. |
| 0:24.8 | A flurry of doctors and nurses moved all around them, |
| 0:27.5 | securing an oxygen mask over the girl's nose |
| 0:30.2 | and jabbing her arms with needles. |
| 0:32.2 | The father couldn't believe this was really happening. |
| 0:35.2 | Just an hour ago he'd come home to find his daughter, passed out on the floor of the kitchen, |
| 0:39.7 | her face and neck were totally beat red. He didn't know what had happened, but his best guess was |
| 0:45.3 | that maybe she had accidentally overheated the oven while making food, and then when she opened |
| 0:50.0 | up the oven door, a rush of heat came out, and had burned her. |
| 0:54.0 | He didn't know what else could make her look so sunburned on such a cloudy December day. |
| 0:59.2 | A nurse put her arms on the father's shoulders and told him he needed to step aside. |
| 1:03.5 | So the father squeezed his daughter's hand one more time, then let the nurse guide him out |
| 1:08.0 | of the hospital room. |
| 1:10.1 | The nurse told the father that his daughter's kidneys were failing. |
| 1:12.8 | They were going to rush her to the intensive care unit for emergency dialysis. |
| 1:17.0 | The father blinked, trying to process what the nurse had just told him. |
| 1:21.0 | He didn't understand how his daughter's |
| 1:23.2 | burned skin could lead to kidney failure. People died from that. He watched |
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