Ep. 36 | A Step Too Far/Dying of Boredom

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

“A Step Too Far”

A man in Scotland suffering from crippling breathing difficulty is mystified when his doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. As he grows weaker and weaker, he worries that one day he’ll go to bed… and never get up.

“Dying of Boredom”

After undergoing ankle surgery, an Australian high schooler is dreading a summer stuck inside. But when he suddenly starts struggling for breath, his couch-bound recovery becomes the least of his problems.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 33 through 40 of Mr.
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0:08.6	Download the app today. The middle-aged man felt angrier as he drove home from his latest doctor's appointment.
0:23.7	The man had been to see the doctor four times about his breathing difficulties
0:27.6	and each time the doctor had taken chest x-rays but he couldn't figure out what was
0:31.8	wrong. The doctor thought that medically speaking,
0:35.0	the man was fine, but the man knew he was far from fine. He couldn't even climb a flight of
0:40.1	stairs without taking countless breaks to catch his breath.
0:43.5	And once he got into bed, he could barely muster the strength to get back out again.
0:47.6	He was now missing work, and he was feeling so weak that it was getting hard to do much of anything?
0:52.4	And so how could any doctor say that he was fine?
0:56.5	After he pulled into the driveway, the man just sat there for a moment.
1:00.3	And as he did, he realized that the feeling he was having right now was not just a feeling of frustration.
1:06.0	He also had a much darker feeling, and that feeling was that one of these nights he was going to go to bed and not wake up again.
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