Ep. 46 | Bad Blood

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A single mother is terrified when her little boy becomes violently sick and doctors can’t figure out why. Every test is negative, yet the child seems to be dying. But when the mother finally finds out what’s wrong with him, it’s even more tragic than she ever imagined.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 41 through 48 of Mr.
0:04.3	Boland's medical mysteries right now and add free on Amazon music. Download the
0:09.2	app today. A doctor tossed and turned in her bed, unable to stop thinking about her young patient.
0:22.0	He was a five-year-old boy dealing with a mysterious
0:24.0	deadly illness that was shutting down his organs one by one. If the doctor didn't figure out what
0:29.1	was wrong with him soon, the little boy would die. But so far every test the doctor had run on him
0:34.5	had come back negative and so the doctor was sort of out of ideas and she didn't know
0:38.6	how she was going to face this poor boy and his mother the following morning. The doctor did finally manage to drift
0:44.7	off to a fitful sleep but just before her alarm went off she bolted upright in a
0:49.4	panic. She just had the strangest dream. It was like this totally visceral nightmare and the details were quickly fading away, but the fear she felt from this nightmare was still coursing through her body.
1:01.0	This nightmare had just revealed exactly what was wrong with her young
1:05.2	patient and the answer was more terrifying and cruel than she'd ever imagined. If you're looking for a new football podcast to keep up with the latest action from the
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1:34.0	I'm Dan Teberski.
1:35.0	In 2011, something strange began to happen
1:37.8	at a high school in upstate New York.
1:39.9	A mystery illness, bizarre symptoms, and spreading fast.
1:43.1	What's the answer?
1:44.0	And what do you do if they tell you it's all in your head?
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