Ep. 72 | 17 Doctors

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

During the COVID pandemic, a boy starts experiencing sudden, inexplicable bursts of pain. At first, his symptoms seem psychological – but then doctors say he may need brain surgery to fix the problem. That’s when the boy’s mother turns to a cutting edge technology to help her figure out what’s wrong with her son.

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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.
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0:11.0	In the winter of 2022, a mom in her mid-30s sat in the bleachers at the local ice hockey rink,
0:21.0	cheering on her six-year-old son.
0:23.3	She always enjoyed watching these hockey games.
0:25.5	The kids were adorable as they slipped around the ice,
0:28.0	trying to control the hockey puck.
0:30.2	Her son was small for his age.
0:32.1	He was so tiny, she almost hadn't signed him up for the team again this year.
0:36.1	But he loved hockey and his teammates,
0:38.5	so she didn't have the heart to say no. The mom clapped and hollered when her son got the puck
0:44.4	and started skating toward the opposite goal. Then he swung his stick and the puck went sailing past
0:49.3	the other team's goalie. Her son threw his arms up in celebration and then he suddenly crumpled to the ice in pain.
0:57.1	Fear ran through the mother as she heard her son's wail. Nobody had touched him. All he'd done was
1:02.1	swing a stick and raise his arms. But he was crying so hard, it was like he'd broken a bone
1:07.1	or cracked his head open on the ice. The referee skated over to the boy to see what was wrong as the mother raced down the bleachers
1:14.2	to her son's side.
1:15.7	She didn't know if she should call him an ambulance or just tell him to snap out of it.
1:19.8	But judging from how loud he was screaming, the pain he was feeling was very real.
1:24.1	The pain he was feeling was very real.
1:38.3	Music was very real. From Ballin Studios and Wondry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries, where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape our own bodies.
1:46.2	So if you like today's story, the next time you're in the Follow Button's house,
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