I was Bleeding to Death | A Near-Fatal Mistake
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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When a hospital nurse's error leads to a life-threatening hemorrhage, Tracy's fight for survival and answers begins. This week, Tracy shares her unbelievable journey through misdiagnosis, two kidney transplants, and a near-fatal medical error that led her to become a fierce patient safety advocate. From a childhood illness that unknowingly attacked her kidneys to a shocking turn of events post-transplant, Tracy's story is a testament to resilience and the critical importance of self-advocacy in healthcare.
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| 0:27.3 | app, including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. This week on Sick Boy. I rang for the nurse She pushes the first syringe in And my whole chest just went And I was like, oh, I don't feel very good Oh God I don't know why she did this, but she whispered What are you doing? We don't do that And I say, wait a minute, what do you mean don't do that? I said, she already did. And then I started panicking because I'm like, what the hell did you just do to my transplant? |
| 0:57.5 | Like, am I going to be okay? The surgeon who did my transplant came to see me. He said, I'm really sorry, Mrs. Murphy, but we need to send you back to the O'R. Your platelets are dropping below 16,000. So I'm bleeding to death. |
| 1:08.7 | He comes out and looks at my dad and he's like, |
| 1:10.8 | I need you to call her family to potentially come say goodbye. |
| 1:14.1 | It's kind of a... 16,000. So I'm bleeding to death. He comes out and it looks at my dad and he's like, I need you |
| 1:11.1 | the call her family to potentially come say goodbye. It's kind of a murder mystery. Yeah. You know, |
| 1:16.3 | it's a little bit of a, a little bit of a, who done it. Yeah. Taylor, yeah, you just, you got a new phone? |
| 1:28.5 | Yep. |
| 1:28.9 | How is it? |
| 1:30.4 | New. |
| 1:31.0 | Nice. |
| 1:31.5 | Fast. |
| 1:32.0 | Holds a charge. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.0 | So like I get a new phone every two years. |
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