Ep. 39 | Family Ties

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Seemingly out of nowhere, an otherwise healthy man’s body starts filling with a thick, lemon meringue-like liquid that is slowly drowning him in his own fluids. His family is terrified, both for him, and for themselves – because this mysterious disease might come for them too.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 33 through 40 of Mr.
0:04.3	Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music.
0:08.6	Download the app today. A middle-aged doctor sat with his feet dangling off the side of a hospital bed. For the first time in a while, he was the patient,
0:24.7	and he was terrified.
0:26.9	One of his friends sat beside him, holding his hand for support.
0:30.1	On his other side, a hospital physician
0:32.2	was focused on a long thin tube coming out of the patient's back.
0:36.8	The patient tried to relax and take deep breaths, but it felt like something was pressing in on his lungs,
0:41.7	making it nearly impossible to breathe.
0:44.4	He did his best not to panic, but it felt like he was drowning in his own body.
0:48.7	Then the hospital physician turned on a machine, and as it began to were, the pressure in the patient's lungs began to go away.
0:55.7	And so the patient turned around to kind of see how it was going and he saw there was this thick
1:00.6	yellow fluid coming out of his back that was going up and out this tube.
1:05.4	In over 15 years of this patient practicing medicine as a doctor, he'd never seen anything
1:10.6	like this before, and so he turned to the hospital physician and he
1:14.3	asked her what was causing this strange fluid to build up around his lungs and with a
1:18.4	look of absolute uncertainty on her face she shook her head and said she didn't know. But she didn't have time to worry
1:25.1	about where all the fluid was coming from. She just needed to get the fluid out of her
1:29.2	patient before it killed him.
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