Ep. 60 | Godmother Knows Best/The Game
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Godmother Knows Best:
A 15-year-old girl develops mouth sores that are so painful, she can barely eat. Her mother takes her to every doctor imaginable, but nobody knows what’s wrong. Ultimately, the answer doesn’t come from an exam room, but from those who love her the most.
The Game:
A man in Australia has no idea what to do when his young son becomes violent and aggressive. It turns out the boy’s blood is dangerously poisoned… and the cause is something nobody expected.
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| 0:11.4 | Early one winter morning in Memphis, Tennessee, a mother jolted awake to the sound of footsteps running down the hallway |
| 0:21.4 | outside of her bedroom, followed by the sound of a door slamming. And so the mother rubbed her eyes |
| 0:26.8 | and jumped out of bed, and as she hurried down the hallway, she heard her teenage daughter in the |
| 0:31.2 | bathroom groaning and vomiting. And so she pushed open the door and found her daughter on her knees, |
| 0:36.9 | still in her pajamas, clutching the toilet. |
| 0:40.0 | The mother crouched down by her daughter and held back her hair as she threw up again and again. |
| 0:45.0 | And then finally the daughter stopped retching and just collapsed on the floor and started crying. |
| 0:50.1 | And in between sobs, she told her mother that her whole mouth was on fire. |
| 0:54.2 | It was just burning with pain. |
| 0:56.6 | And so instinctively, the mother grabbed a cup and filled it with cold water and gave it to her daughter to sip on. |
| 1:01.8 | But as the girl tilted back the cup, the mother saw inside of her daughter's mouth, |
| 1:06.9 | and she nearly gagged. |
| 1:08.9 | Her daughter's entire mouth was covered in these reddish pus-covered sores. |
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