Ep. 47 | The Tell-Tale Heartbeat

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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An avid runner is out for a routine jog when she suddenly feels dizzy and faints, dropping right in her tracks. Years later, it happens again and doctors warn that she has a serious problem. If she can’t stop it, she’s in danger of passing out and never waking up.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 41 through 48 of Mr.
0:04.3	Bollin's medical mysteries right now and add free on Amazon music. Download the
0:09.2	app today. On a cold rainy Sunday night in early 2022, a middle-aged woman lay in her back on a patch of grass in Seattle, Washington's
0:26.2	Lake Union Park.
0:27.9	Her limbs were displayed out at crooked angles, and her workout clothes were soaking wet.
0:32.7	She appeared to be barely breathing.
0:34.8	But then her eyes blinked open.
0:36.4	For a moment, she couldn't tell where she was.
0:39.0	She had no idea how long she'd been laying on the ground either.
0:42.0	The last thing she remembered was glancing out at all the
0:44.7	lights on the boats as she jogged along the waterfront. Then her vision had gone cloudy and she
0:49.6	became very dizzy. She'd stumbled toward a bench to sit down, and then everything went black.
0:54.8	Still lying on her back, the woman craned her neck to look around the park for someone
0:59.3	to help her, but it was totally empty, like she was the only person in the entire city.
1:04.0	If she hadn't woken up on her own, she wondered how long it would have been until someone found her.
1:09.0	Then she noticed a group of rabbits staring at her as they munched on a nearby patch of grass.
1:15.2	She knew it was totally ridiculous, but for just a moment, she hoped these bunnies would hop over
1:21.1	to her and rescue her. But when that didn't happen, she rolled
1:24.5	onto her stomach and slowly stood up on her very unsteady legs. It was going to be a mile-long
1:30.3	walk in the pouring rain back to the houseboat where she lived and the whole way one
1:35.2	thought kept pounding in her mind why was this happening again?
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