Ep. 66 | The Nest

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Following the birth of her second child, a woman comes down with what appears to be a serious case of the flu. Though she gets better, the illness comes back every six months or so, like clockwork. The symptoms get worse over the years, but her doctors are no help, pushing the woman to the limits of her endurance.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members. You can binge episode 65 through 72 right now and add free on Amazon Music. Download
0:06.4	the app today.
0:11.1	On a warm California night in the summer of 2005, a mother of two jolted awake from a feverish dream. As she caught her breath and
0:22.8	adjusted to the darkness of the bedroom, she gradually realized that she was soaked, head to toe, and sweat.
0:29.0	She tried to wipe her face dry, but her arm felt too heavy to lift. Eventually, she managed,
0:35.0	but the exertion left her dizzy.
0:40.6	Lying in bed, the woman tried to stay calm and get her bearings.
0:45.5	She remembered feeling a bit fatigued at dinner the night before, but nothing extreme.
0:49.5	Yet now she was delirious, achy, and could barely move.
0:54.8	However, the woman did manage to nudge her husband awake and mumbled to him that she needed help.
0:56.7	Seconds later, he had put a thermometer in her mouth and was anxiously waiting for it to
1:00.3	beep.
1:01.5	And when it did and he saw the number, his eyes went wide and he turned the thermometer
1:06.0	around to show her.
1:08.1	The woman's heart jumped, 104 degrees, and higher than that, and her life could be in
1:13.4	danger. Then the woman took a slow, deep breath, and did one more thing. She raised her shirt
1:20.2	and saw exactly what she dreaded. Her whole torso was covered in a thick red rash. The woman sank
1:27.4	back into the pillows, her mind racing with fear.
1:30.6	But she kept coming back to the same question.
1:34.1	Why was this happening again?
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